Flint Spokesman [Volume: 2, Issue: 5]

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1947.

_THE* FLINT SPOKESMAN* ~

_ PAGE FIVE

Wife~of Late
Feted by African

By HENRY B. COLE

~~ GOLD COAST. ~
(ANP): ~~Ameritan and West!
India | aebroes: desirous of -tracing their, ancestral. beginnings
back to Africa, can well follow |
the example set by Mrs. Amy
Ashwoode Garvey, first wife of
the late Marcus ~Garvey.

Last: Feb...6, Mrs;.-Garvey was
reunited | with her African relatives. ~in the town of Daman,
Juaben State, Kingdom of: Ash
anti, Gold Coast-colony. More!

In November, 1946, she came to
the Gold Coast. In a few weeks,
she was in Ashanti, inquiring,
~searching and collecting. data.
She then secured an audience
with the Asantehene of Ashanti,
Sir Agyeman Prempeh II, the
African~ King of ~Ashanti, and
laid~ béfore' him her claims. Sir
Prempeh -was -not fully convinced, and sent her for the alleged relatives to appear before
him.

On Feb. 6; the chief of Juaben

than ~10: years of+painstaking effort to trace her family tree had.
preceded the. reunion. ~The story
of her,, search began when she
was a little girl

Her> ~-matérnal ig aicdhinertabies
was a-native of Daman who had
been. sold into,,slavery. Little
Anty learned of this from her
West Indian mother, and resolved ~that one day.she. would
locate~ the--land: of. her ancestors
-and meet her kinfolk..

The, first clue came out of
London, when exactly 100. years
after her ancestral parent had
been~ séld in:slavery, she -met
Dr. J. B:-*Danquah of the Gold
Coast. colony, then a student in
London university. This was in
1924.

_ ~Tell me,~ she.said, ~where is
Daman and where is: Jabin?~

Dr.: Danquah, réplied, ~I presume you. mean Juaben. Juaben
is in Ashanti, Gold Coast.~

In 1935, 11 years ~after ~shé
met~ ~Dr..-Danquah, ~she came
across ~another. Gold -Coaster in:
London, who was studying, law.
He confirmed.Dr. Danquah~s
statement.

She was aiabie to start her
pilgrimage.'to Africa then because she had no money. Ten
years,passed, during which time,
she roamed Europe and America, lecturing, writing and studying. In:London, particularly, she~
is remembered.as a mother to
African.and- West Indian students..She opened a restaurant
and club: for them, and was active in~ Social~ organizations that
worked ~for~ the betterment of
colored peoples.

By 1946, she had accumulated~
enov#h~ money: 'to' make the trip,
and in. June of:that year, set
foot on. African soil. She went
to Senegal and Liberia to
make researches into the history

with there Daman villagers and
the Damanhene came before the
king. The chief of Damen told
the story of how in the intertribal war of 1824, his relatives
were made captive and sold as
slaves. Among the relatives was
a young girl, the youngest of
four sisters of his great-grandmother, Descendants of the two
others still survive. After piecing together the stories, the king
announced he was Satis#ed that
Mrs. Garvey was the descendant
of the girl who mysteriously dis-, However, he was more: surprised when the chief of Daman
told him that ~about three
months ago, long before this
woman (Mrs. Garvey): came to

this country, a fetish priest told
~me when I went for consulta
tion, that a lost relative would

me. From all evidence now, I
believe~ firmly that this woman
is a descéndant of my ancestor.~.The king received the story
by saying. to Mrs. Garvey, ~You,
as well as many others in America and the West Indies should
be ~proud, for ~many of your ancestors. were forced into slavery
because of their. patriotism and

other of their country~s wars
and were unfortunately made
captives.

~Captivity ~where wars. are
concerned is nothing new. We
read of it in the Bible, in Brit
ish ~history? ~in~ German history,

country. Be proud, Mrs. Garvey,
that your ancestors came from
Africa, and so must every
American or West Indian Negro.

~ and sogiology of the inhabitants.

I am sure a grand reception

appeared with the slaves in 1824. | ~

visit my village shortly. I did~mot pay much: attention to this.
But I.did tell. the Juabenhene |
what the fetish priest had told;

in~ fact, the: history ~ of - every }

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Edward S~: Bres., executive for~
ROTC and reserve affairs, War
Department. Special Staff,
made an informal inspection
tour at the A. and C. College

of _ North. Carolina recently.
The General had high praise
for the reserve officer training
program in effect at the college. He is seen here chatting
with A. and T~s two ranking

cadets, Reginald.R. Reeves

Cadet Lt, Colonel), Greensboro, N. C., and Lewis R. Morris (Cadet Major) of Ossining,
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Aldermanic Race
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NASHVILLE.~(ANP) ~ With
the city election coming off early
}in ~May, considerable interest is
being manifested in the race for
mayor and council. Three colered candidates: Atty. Alexander
Looby of! the~ famous Columbia,
Tenn., riot case trial and Mr. K.
Gardner, | undertaker, who are
~both running in the same ward
land district; and Rev. A. A.
Bennett. All. are running as
Democrats.._ Mayor Cummings,. incumbent

bravery in fighting, in one or, for nine; years, seems to have

| the support.of all three or more
Negro factions which have de~veloped as a result of no overall racial] politieal strategy.

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ancestors,~ a

And Mrs. Garvey is. being
feted by. her ancestral town as
no other. Negro descendant of
slaves has been feted by Afri
cans before.

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By D. A. S. CHARI

NEW DELHI, India.~(ANP)
~For the first time in. history
the colored peoples of the world
will have an organization. of
[their own to look after their
| interests and to fight their battles. The Inter-Asian Relations
Conference, which concluded: its
10 day session at New Delhi
last week, has decided to set up
a permanent Asian Relations organization.

Pandit Jewaharlal Nehru, who
has beeh the moving spirit behind the various movements to
unite the peoples of Asia~all of
whom are colored~has_ been
elected the president of the provisional general council of the
Asian Relations organization.
The council will be composed
of two representatives from each
Asian country.

Thus the Inter-Asian Relations
conference which met.at a, critical stage in the history of the
colored races has horne fruit
and it can be reasonably hoped
that the unity of the colored
races will be cemented further
in years to come. No longer
will it be possible for white
imperialism to crush so easily
the freedom movements of the
colored peoples. Nor would it be

Gen. Smuts to terrorize the native und ~Indian citizens of the
Union of South Africa, while at
the. same time preaching democracy and freedom for the white
peoples of Europe.

While no reference was qpenly made at the conference to
the plight of the Negro citizens
of the United States, I noticed
a strong feeling among thé various delegates that it would be
more: dignified on the part of
President Truman to exhibit~ at
least as much concern for the
welfare of the Negro minority
in America as he does for the

~| freedom of the far away peoples

of Greece and Turkey.~,

As Pandit Nehru deé~lared in
his address ~inaugurating the
conference, the Asian Relations
organization stands not only for
the freedom of the peoples: of
Asia but also for the freedom
of oppressed minorities throughout the world. Organization is
concerned, in particular, with

| the freedom of the oppressed

native people ~of Africa. Among,
those who arrived at New Delhi
to attend the final stages of the
conference was James Beauttah,,
a Negro observed from East
Africa. ~

It was sniekoomad that the
next session of the organization
will be held in China some time
in 1949.

Over 30,000 people attended
the final-session held at:the huge
amphi-theatre- constructed.. on
the ruins of:an ancient Hindu

Mahatma Gandhi, who has made
a visit to New Delhi to discuss
the indian ~ political question
with the.. mew viceroy, Lord}
Mountbatten, was present by

| special. invitation. Dr. Shariar,

the prime minister of Indonesia,
who has succeeded only. a few
days back in. obtaining recognition for -his country~s independence from, the Dutch, arrived
in New Delhi three days back
to attend the conference.

~We are now in the process
of finding ourselves and, therefore, others are also in the process of realizing-that Asia is not

merely something on the map,

easy for white ~statesmen~. like.

fort. just outside New Delhi.

~

Inter-Asian Conference May |

pressed Peoples

rivalry ~of Various impérialisms
or a place where there are markets to he -éxploited, but that
Asia consists. -of human. beings
with dignity, yuman beings with
a long past~ behind them and
human beings who ate going to
have a great future,~ declared
Pandit: Jewaharlal Nehru amidst
resounding cheers from the gatherings. _

~During the speeches of the
various delegates, we heard the
same echo, the same urge and
desire. that there shall be understanding, that here shall. be
friendship, that. there shall be
cooperation, that there shall be
a free and United Asia,~ said
Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, the Indian
stateswoman, who presided over
the conference. ~In this heart of
Delhi, in this heart of the old
Hindu empire; we have founded
today our new world of.broth-.erhood, not an empire~ ~which
monopolizes power for one, section or another, but a féderation of free peoples where every individual~is as great as the
next, where~ there will be no
leaders and no followers but all
will be brothers in a mighty
task of regeneration.~

Asking the delegates to strive
for. ~one: world,~ Mahatme
Gandhi said: ~I would certainly
like to see that dream realized
in my lifetime. If all of you representatives who have come here
from different parts of Asia go
away with one mind and with
a fixed.. determination.to carry
your will through, there is no
doubt that in your own generation you will succeed and see
that dréam realized.~

~Why- have the _ representatives of Asiatic powers and peoples. come together?~ asked Mr.
Gandhi. ~Ts it in order to wage
wat against Europe, America or.
against non-Asiatics? I would

emphatigally say no. This is not}

India~s mission. I would feél extremely sorry | if India, having
won. her ~ndependence esséntially;*. rather,: predominantly,
though non-violent ~means, was
going to use that. independence
for. the suppression of other
parts of the world~let alone
Asiatic ~powers, but even European powers, although European
powers have exploited the. different races inhabiting this vast
continent "til now.~

The report on raciat problems
presented to the conference suggested that there should be complete equality of all citizens of
Asia; complete religious freedom
of all citizens;,no public or social disqualification of any racial group; and equality before
law of persons of foreign origin
who have settled in~ the country. It.was. recognized at the
~conference that unlike conditions prevailing in America or
Africa there was no racial dis
~trimination anywhere in Asia.

Thus there was absolutely no
opposition om the part of any
jcountry to. this declaration of
fundamental rights and of equality of all peoples. /

The fear was expressed inde
cussions on the question of national movements for freedom
~in Asia that Britain and other
imperialist powers might attempt to continue economic
domination of Asian countries,
although it was becoming more
and more impossible for them
to retain political domination of
Asia in their hands. Some delegates also. warned against the
possibility of an unnamed great

is not merely a place for the power ~ presumably the United

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Nannie Bacon
To Speak

Miss Nannie _ Burroughs,
founder of the. National Training School for Girls in Washington ard secretary of the Woman~s Convention of the Baptist
Church,: will: open the institute
Sunday, April 20, with an address on, ~The Negro Family in
Retrospect.~

Other participants during the
week~s activities will be Mrs.
Grace Townes Hamilton, executive secretary of the Atlanta
Urban League; Miss Frances
Fuller, instructor in -crafts at
the Newark YWCA and graduate of Boston School of Occupational Therapy; Dr. Dudley
Portey Miller, lecturer in applied physiology at Yale University and ex-director, Commission on Alcoholism State of Connecticut; and Mrs. Gladys, wellknown ~author and lecturer on

years Director of the Family
Counsel Institute at the University of North Carolina in Chapel

tgro veterans are concerned,

family relations and for many |
Hill, N. C. ~

Out-Vote
Whites in
Florida Town

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.~
(ANP) ~ Marching to the polls

unflinchingly and with the courage of their convictions, 229 Ne
this town~s white primary. They
-out-voted the whites better than
three to one and clearly indicated that they are a definite
threat to the political ambitions
of any candidate not meeting
with their approval in this Democratic bailiwick,

Atty. W. Gordon
Recovering From
Operation:

LOS ANGELES. ~ (ANP) ~
Atty. Walter L. Gordon Jr., who
underwent the knife to remove
his appendix about three weeks

ago, was revortedly doing nicely

| here last Thursday.

He was admitted to the Hospital of the Good Samaritan for
an appendectomy, following
which his condition was-said to
have been poor. It is expected,
however, that his improved state

will allow him to return to his}

home within a few days.

Atty. Gordon is one. of the
west coast~s most brilliant lawyers, having built up one of the
largest and most successful law
firms in the country in less than
10 years. Still a young man, he
has four associates and a large
clerical staff which operates the
firm~s office on a day-and-nigh+
basis.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
SPEAKS OF HOWARD

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(CNS)
~Eleanor Roosevelt devoted her
Thursday~s syndicated column to
praise of Howard University~s
Medical School and Freedman~s
Hospital. ~Despite its rigid economy; Freedman~s Hospital is one
of the very important centers
for the improvement of the
health of the Negro people,~ she
wrote. Mrs. Roosevelt~s comment
ment. on Howard was caused by
her attendance at the university
board of trustee~s meeting this
week.

Yields Offset Costs

It costs about $4 more to grow
and harvest an acre of corn than
it did in 1913-15; but the improvement in the per acre yield over the
period makes a bushel of corn in
the crib today cost 30 per cent less
than it did 30 years ago.

States~attempting a subtle form
of economic and political imperialism. It was decided that
no-Asian country should aid any
colonial power directly or:1n
country in subjection. ~

All in all, the Asian Relations
Conference was a huge success.
It has. set up a permanent organization, which will cover in
the first instance the countries
of Asia but which might later
~on be extended to inciude the

people of Africa, to look after|

the welfare of the oppressed colored peoples of the world.

the days of European domination over Asia are over and that
the countries of Asia have made
up their minds to exeret them~selves for not only their freedom but for the freedom of all

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groes here last week voted in
TRUMAN URGES. SUPPORT
|FOR NEGRO COLLEGE FUND

NEW YORK. ~ (ANP) ~ The
fourth annual drive of the United Negro College fund, Inc.,
which gets underway April 17,
has received the blessings of
President Harry S. Truman. In
a letter to the fund, the Presiderit said that ~where the Nethe
greatest burden and the <reatest opportunity have fe en to
the Negro college.~ Aftc - complimenting what has be a done,
he continued, ~We have a great
obligation to the huzdreds of
thousands of Negro. veterans
who served in the war in all
capacities and in all services. It
is~ right that we should discharge a part of this obligation
by extending and improving the
facilities for higher: education
among _Negroes. _ That. is the

Arnerican way. It has not failed
us in the past; it will not fail
us now.~

The fund. which includes
among its directors some of
America~s best known business
and industrial leaders, was created to give financial support to
struggling Negro colleges. At
present, 33 such colleges are affiliated with the drive.

Declaring the move to be the
~sanest, soundest and most noncontroversial approach to the
solution of the problem involving America~s Negro population,~ John D. Rockefeller Jr.,
chairman of the national campaign advisory committee, has
made it known that he will as
sist the fund ~with time, thought |

and money.~

~HITLERS ARE >
RISING HERE,~
PHILIP RANDOLPH

By HARRY LEVETTE

LOS ANGELES. ~ (ANP) ~
~Democracy ~is at the crossroads. Racism and _ intolerance
are on the upgrade. Hitler arose
in Germany by killing off labor
leaders. A Hitler can arise here,
and both the AFL and the CIO
will die. When that day comes,
Negroes will be driven off their
jobs with violence: and great
bloodshed, and Jews and Catholics also will be crushed.~ Those
were the observations that A.
Philip Randolph. made here
Tuesday in the downtown Clark
hotel..

The occasion was a banquet
by the Central Labor Council~s
committee to combat intolerance
with Randolph, international
president of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car. Porters, as speak
er of the day.

Randolph told the capacityseated group, which included
members of the white and Negro press, that ~prejudice is an
outgrowth of family life. There
is no aversion by a white baby
against a black baby, or by a
black one aga~ns* a white,~ but

Bilbos are succeeding in spreading race hate to the extent that
there is division everywhere,
even among the Negroes. them~
selves.

Labor, he concluded, is beginning to wake up and rally. Labor leaders have learned that
the Negro~s brain and ability are

ecual to that of the white man
and that the white laborer cannot be saved without fully recognizing the Negro.

JACKSON, Miss.~(
$25,000 drive to aid, Haiti~s as
children is being spearheaded
here. by. a committee of prominent local women, who plan to
sponsor a tea on April 27 at the
Summers hotel.

Chairman of the women~s
committee is Mrs. Daisy S. Reddix, who explained that the
movement to aid Haiti~s homeless, underprivileged poor children, was started by a letter she
received from Mrs. J. Max Bond,
whose husband is in Haiti on
an educational mission.

~T thought the Negro women
of the United States, who feel a
kinship with the people of this
black republic would be. willing

| Tea Spearheads $25,000 Drive
To Aid Haiti~s Poor Children

dren of Haiti, if given an opportunity,~ Mrs. Bond~s letter said.

~

Assistance from all local Negro organizations has been
promised, Mrs. Reddix said. Participation of the schools has
been assured through O. B. Cobbins, supervising principal of
Negro schools. The schools are
expected to designate a ~Haiti
Day,~ featuring bulletin displays, lecturers and other educational activities centered
around Haiti.

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Mrs. Reddie~s committee assistants include Mesdames Ruby

bert, Lucille W. Price and Al
to help the underprivileged chil
bertine Hopkins Mason.

SEDALIA, N. C. ~ ANP ~ In
a drastic move to wipe out the
use of profanity by teen-age
youths, Dr. Charlotte Hawkins
Brown, president of Palmer Mem-!
orial institufe, ordered the suspension of -8 male students of the:
school for ~persistent use of profanity, and failure to exert their
influence to clear up this situation among the boys.~ All of the
students were seniors.

| Palmer Memorial is ~~committed

directly to keep any other Asian

The conference has also served |
notice on white imperialism that |

the peoples of the world.

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Commonly referred, to.as the
~twig-bender of Sedalia,~ Dr
Brown took the definite stand that

to character building and. cultural
attainment. It has no excuse for
existing if the~ common practices
of the ordinary schools are permitted to flourish here.

~Since character development
is paramount in the Palmer program, tendencies toward delinquency will not besallowed to

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exist, thereby lowering the high
standards of the institution,~ she
declared.

She pointed out that although
these students represented the
best Negro families in 10 states,
they have been engulfed by the
wave of delinquency which has
been sweeping the country. She
asked the full cooperation of parents in ~meeting this situation determinedly and _ cooperatively.~
Such action would go a long way
toward teaching students that
they cannot remain in the environment of the school.

JO BAKER WILL BE

HERE THIS SUMMER
PARIS. ~ (CNS) ~ Josephine

Baker, the singing idol of Amer
icans in Paris, will definitely

visit the United States this sum
mer on tour, according to an an- -

nouncement from her this week.

~Jo,~ who served as an entertainer with the Free French
forces in North Africa during
the war, has been resting since
V-J Day following a serious op
eration.
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Basic Food
For youngsters and adults alike,
plan menus to include these basic _
food groups: Leafy, green and yellow vegetables~at least once a day;
citrus fruit, tomatoes~once daily, it
possible; potatoes, sweet potatoes~
one or more servings daily; other
fruits and vegetables~one or two
servings daily; milk, cheese, ice
cream~two or three times daily and
n cooking; meat, poultry, fish~once
daily if possible; eggs~4 or more per
week per person; dry beans and

peas, nuts~one or more times a.

week; flour, cereals, meal (wholegrain or enriched) ~ at every

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