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Robert Vann Resigns From Justice Department ADVOCATE SEGREGATION TO SOLVE D.C. TRANSIT PROBLEM WANTS MORE TIME FOR HIS NEEDS WANTS MORE TIME FOR HIS NEEDS Acceptance of Resignation Terminates Appointment Made June 30, 1935 Reports that Robert L. Vann, special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, had assigned his position were confirmed by the Department of Justice here this week in an exclusive statement to the Tribune. The resignation of Mr. Vann was submitted to Attorney General Homer S. Cummings several weeks ago. "effective at the will of the department." It was accepted Monday, to become effective December 31, 1935. Appointed in 1933 Vann was appointed to the Department of Justice on June 30, 1933, for no definite period. The appointment was a political plum given the Pittsburgh publisher as a reward for his campaign in behalf of President Roosevelt in 1932. One of "Big Four" As a member of the famous "Big Four" who were charged with the responsibility of swinging colored voters to cast their ballots for President Roosevelt, Vann delivered many speeches for his chiefs in 1932, and threw the editorial support of his newspaper behind the Democrats. All of the members of the "Big Four" were given easy positions in what has been popularly termed the Roosevelt Black Cabinet. In submitting his resignation, Vann told his chief that he wanted to devote all of his time to his private interests. Is Editor As editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, Vann had an understanding with the Attorney General which permitted him to spend week-ends in Pittsburgh, guarding the interests of his publication. He barely escaped death a year ago when he had a collision with another car while returning here after spending the week-end in Pittsburgh. He remained in the hospital for several days near the point of death, but recuperated sufficiently to permit him to return to his duties after three or four weeks. Capital Speculative Whether the reason given by Vann for resigning was the real one is a matter of great speculation here in the capital. Quits Black Cabinet JOHN B. BURKE ROBERT L. VANN, Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, whose resignation from the Department of Justice was accepted yesterday, to take effect December 31. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PERIODICAL DIVISION WASHINGTON, D. C. These are the children of Dr. A. envoy to Great Britain, Joseph, show and sisters, is already in Ethiopia they are serving in the air force Charles, John, Joseph, D. Negro Congress Interest Thro John P. D. Discrimination in New Deal Slapped as Davis Calls Meeting in Chi Wann WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY ATE S D.C. T Divides Happy H children of Dr. Ajaz Wargnah O man, Joseph, shown above with body in Ethiopia with his broth the air force Left to right John, Joseph, David and Leah Congress In at Through P. Davis Washington Tribune ONLY NEGRO NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL War Divides Happy Family THE BOOKS These are the children of Dr. Ajaz Wargnah C. Martin, Ethiopian envoy to Great Britain, Joseph, shown above with his younger brothers and sisters, is already in Ethiopia with his brother, Benjamin, where they are serving in the air force. Left to right, the group shows Charles, John, Joseph, David and Leah Martin. Negro Congress Increases Interest Through Nation John P. Davis Says CONFAB WILL BE ON DOUGLASS'S BIRTHDAY Seven Issues Outlined As Major Objectives of the Congress Plans for the National Negro Congress, called by John P. Davis, executive secretary of the Joint Committee on National Recovery, to meet in Chicago, February 14. the birthday of Frederick Douglass, are going forward with great force, Davis announced this week. The call for the Congress issued by Davis is addressed to "all Negroes: native and foreign been, all Negro organizations' churches, labor unions, farm, and the croppers' organizations; all fraternal civic, professional and political groups; and all organizations and persons of whatever race, who are willing to fight for economic and social justice for Negroes." A New Crisis In issuing the call, Davis has directed attention to the new crisis confronting the Negro people, with low standards of living, hunger and misery, and urges that the present crisis calls for united action. The issues to be outlined at the congress as outlined by the sponsors are as follows: 1. The right of Negroes to jobs at decent living wages and for the right to join all trade unions. For the right to equal wages and equal labor conditions with other workers. For the organization of Negro workers with their fellow white workers into democratically controlled tree unions. Seek Security 2. Relief and security for every --- n Resi hingt C., TUESDAY. DECEMBER E SEG C. TRA Happy Family Jaz Wargnah C. Martin, Ethiopian own above with his younger brothers with his brother, Benjamin, where Left to right, the group shows David and Leah Martin. ess Increases ough Nation Davis Says needy Negro family; and, for genuine social and unemployment insurance without discrimination. 3. Aid to the Negro farm population, to ease the burden of debts and taxation; for the right of farmers, tenants and sharecroppers to organize and bargain collectively. 4. A fight against lynching, mob violence and police brutality; for enactment of a federal anti-lynching law; for the right to vote, serve on juries and enjoy complete civil liberty. 5. The right of Negro youth to equal opportunity in education and in the economic life of the community. Negro Women 6. For complete equality for Negro women; for their right, along with all women, to equal pay for equal work; for their right to a suitable environment for themselves and their children—an environment which demands adequate housing, good schools, and recreational facilities; for their right to organize as consumers. 7. To oppose war and fascism the attenuated subjugation of Negro people in Ethiopia, the oppression of colonial nations throughout the world; for the independence of Ethiopia. The traditions of the Negro refute meek acceptance of injustices, Davis said, in recalling the militant struggle for justice advanced by such "unconquerable person" as Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. Semblances of these traditions are found in the struggles of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to win for the Negro equal school facilities, freedom of mob-violence and lynching; in the fight of the National Urban League, and the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to organize Negro workers into militant unions. --- TWO SISTERS DIE IN BUS CRASH HOPEWELL, Va. — Two sisters, both of McKenney, Va., were identified among the dead here today (Tuesday) following a bus accident here early Sunday morning, when a Greyhound bus crashed through a draw bridge and plunged into the icy waters of the Appomattox River. The dead sisters are: Miss Elizabeth Fisher, 21, and Miss Gettrude Fisher, 28. A total of 14 men and women, including the driver of the bus, died in the accident. All except two were white. Two bodies remained unidentified. Book Character Party Given by Honor Society The National Honor Society of Armstrong High School and the Honor Roll Society gave a delightful book character party on Wednesday, December 19. Members came in costume, and their identities had to be guessed. Several interesting games were played, refreshments served and Christmas carols sung. G. David Houston Mrs. Orra W. Spivey and the following members of the honor council were invited guests: Mrs E. P. Webster, Mrs. B. B. Scott and Francis Gregory. The party was held in Mrs. Allen's room, which was decorated for the Christmas season. "Black Reconstruction" Called 1935 Best Book NEW YORK, — Elmer Anderson Carter, editor of Opportunity Magazine, picks "Black Reconstruction" by W. E. B. Dubois as the outstanding book of the year among Negroes. Says Mr. Carter: "The outstanding book written by a Negro for the year 1935 is to my mind, 'Black Reconstruction' by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois. Nothing was needed more than a revision of the historical claptrap that has been paraded about this period of the nation's history. 'Black Reconstruction' demolishes the ramparts of the 'academic racketers.'" REV. NIEBUHR AT HOWARD The Rev. Prof. Reinhold Niebunr, of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, will be the guest speaker at the ril-religious service. Sunday morning, January 5, at Howard University. The Old The N The Old Faith and The New Age By CHARLES M. THOMAS Strange as it may the real significance of withdraw from the man the still small voice the ear." Like radio listener hear the one voice the interest. This annual celeb far deeper meaning th Strange as it may seem, men generally miss the real significance of great events. One must withdraw from the market-place in order to hear the still small voice that speaks to "the inner ear." Like radio listeners, one must tune-in to hear the one voice that is on the air for their interest. This annual celebration of Christmas has far deeper meaning than appears on the surface of modern ways. It has a long past and also a future which few understand but without which humanity's future must fail to reach our fondest hopes. Before Christ was John the Baptist, and before him was the century-old experience of the Hebrew people striving against all the world to realize a moral ideal. Greece had civilized men. Rome had organized them, but it was left to this small band to enable mankind to rise to its full stature. No more inspiring or instructive document has been discovered for the guidance of (Continued on page 5) Separation of Races is Suggested at Street Car Hearing Before Public Whites Object to Riding Thru City's "Harlem" and Rubbing Elbows With Colored Patrons "WHITE LINE" ASKED BY WHITE WOMAN Pelham Airs Poor Service Furnished Riders in Northwest Sections It was left however, for Mrs. Elizabeth T. Sullivan, white, of the Progressive Citizens Association of Georgetown, to ask for a separation of colored and white on the P Street,LeDroit Park bus line. During her testimony she turned to the president of the Capital Traction Company and inquired. Mr. Hanna couldn't you set apart four or five seats marked "for white only." She looked around and said "You know I am not advocating a color line" and continued, "You might call it a white line." Milo Brinkley, Georgetown Citizens Association, in complaining about the narrow isles in bushes especially on the P Street line said, "You know we have to rub elbows with 'you know who!" and complained that far too many colored people of Georgetown used the weekly bus passes illegitimately. Ernest L. Stewart, 716 Columbia Road, and Albert Brick, both claiming to be speaking for the Central Northwest Business Men's Association, made complaints about "darkies" who rode on the Rock Creek Park cars going to and from work and Stewart said, "If it weren't for the colored taxi-cabs on eighteenth Street just below U, an express line could be run down eighteenth Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. Pelham Outlines Problem It was left for Robert A. Pelham, director of the Capital News Service, representing several civic (Continued on Page 2) Faith and New Age seem, men generally miss of great events. One must market-place in order to hear that speaks to "the innerners, one must tune-in to it is on the air for their eration of Christmas has an appears on the surface as a long past and also a understand but without which it fail to reach our fondest was John the Baptist, and century-old experience of the king against all the world to Greece had civilized men, but it was left to this mankind to rise to its full inspiring or instructive docu-ered for the guidance of --- TORCH SLAYER GETS LIFE TERM FREDERICK, Md. — Alfred Brown, 21-year-old boxer, was sentenced to life imprisonment today for the torch-murder of his step-father in the law, Manuel Silva Varela, Spanish fruit peddler, of Doubs, MD. Brown, a former sparring mate of Joe Louis, was found guilty of first degree murder by a Frederick County jury, last week. He pleaded self-defense. Chief Judge Hammond Urn sentenced him Mrs. Bernice Chew Lucas Honored at Birthday Fete Joseph Lucas honored, his wife, Mrs. Bernice Chew Lucas, with a birthday party last Tuesday, at their residence. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Chew, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Poulson, Mr. and Mrs. Faunteroy, Mrs. Miss Glad's Coleman, Mrs. Delores Jennifer, Miss Iona Reeves, Mrs. Serena Cooper, Miss Madyne Washington, Miss Simms, Mr. Richardson, Miss Grace Bonds, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thornton, Francis Brown; Miss Felicia Rhone, Miss Marjorie Johnson, Percy Watts, R. Brown, Miss Selma Hawkins, Theodore Hall, Miss Ida Mack, Miss Lucille Prather, Dick Walker, Mrs. Marguerite Jones, Miss Sweetie Smith, Norman Suitor, Miss Pansy Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Gladys Cole, Robert Lee, Roy Green, Brady Thornton, Mrs. Lillian Kelly, Mrs. Leacer Parks, Donald Smith, Mrs. Estelle Tuckson and Artie Brown. Brown and Vann Elected Democratic Club Members The two sponsors of the Young Colored Democratic Club of America, District of Columbia division, namely, Robert L Vann, assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, and Edgar A. Brown, adviser to the director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, were elected honorary members of the club, at their meeting held Tuesday, evening, December 17. All members of the club were urged by President Samuel W. membership committee in an in-Howard to cooperate with the 'ensive drive for new members. Music Association Meets in Detroit DETROIT (ANP)—A two-day program, the highlight of which will be an organ recital by Orrin C. Suthern, head of the organ department at Tuskegee Institute, has been planned for the meeting of the board of directors of the National Association of Negro Musicians, to be held here December 27 and 28 in preparation for the seventeenth annual convention scheduled for Detroit next August. ALABAMA GETS $14,000 FOR WORKERS' TRAINING STUDY BIRMINGHAM. (ANP) — A federal grant to Alabama of $14,010 for a Negro workers' training study was announced this week by Controller General McCarl. It was the only grant aimed specially to benefit Negroes in the $265,109 announced for this state's white-collar projects. His Sartorial Highness THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK — Sartorially perfect in every detail including apathe, cune, derby and wingback collar, Colonel Hubert Julian, "Black Eagle" of Harlem and late of the air force of Emperor Haile Selassie, of Ethiopia, strutured the decks of the 'S. S. Aquitania' when the vessel docked in New York, Friday. Julian says he will do his flight up and around Harlem. He quit Ethiopia when he was not "treated with respect." Religious Leaders Seek Better Employment In White HouseConference Four-Point Petition Also Urges Creation of Negro Industrial Commission TWO D.C. MINISTERS ON COMMITTEE OF FIVE Roosevelt Receives Group Cordially; Lynching Legislation Asked By ARTHUR M. CARTER Headed by Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr. president of Wilberforce University, a committee of five church leaders, representing the Fraternal Council of Negro Churches of American, conferred with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House. Thursday afternoon, on problems vitally effecting the Negro today. In a 15-minute conference with the President, the committee presented a four-point petition calling for greater representation in in the Civilian Conservation Corps, more supervisory positions in all types of relief organizations, particularly, the Works Progress Administration and the Agricultural Adjutment Administration, consideration of legislation against lynching, and creation of an Industrial Commission on Negro Affairs as proposed by Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell Chicago in the last session of Congress. The personnel of the committee was as follows: Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., president of Wilberforce University; editor of the Christian Recorder, official organ of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and oldest Negro newspaper in the United (See PRESIDENT, Page 9) Appointed Dep. Recorder M. B. THOMAS H. R. CLARKE, who was appointed Deputy Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia last Thursday, succeeding Reginald B. Grady, white. The appointment was made by Dr. William J. Thompkins, Recorder of Deeds. Kearns Says Jack Dempsey Could Have Stopped Louis in 4 Rounds Former Manager of Manassa Mauler Holds Strong Belief Bomber Would Not Last With One-Time Champ and Conqueror of Willard; Praises Joe CHICAGO, Ill.—Asked to compare Joe Louis, the brown boy who has created the greatest future in boxing circles since the days of Jack Dempsey, with Dempsey himself, Jack Kearns former manager of the Manassa Mauler, told newspaper men, late last week on his arrival in this city, "Louis wouldn't last four rounds with the Dempsey of old." Kearns blew into Chicago with Hank Bath, his new "find" whom he romised to turn up as the "white home of the era." It was a few days short of eighteen years ago that Kearns arrived from the west (Colorado) with Dempsey. He reminded those who greeted him of this fact and referred to his charge as the second Dempsey and "saviour of the white man's cause." Only One Dempsey Questioned about the merits of Louis and Dempsey and his opinion of the outcome of a fight between them when Dempsey was in his prime, Kearns said: "I have seen Louis fight and make no mistake about the fact that he is a great one. But I shouldn't have to tell you that there was only one Dempsey. They don't seem to know what Louis will do under fire, because no one has hed nerve enough yet to stand up and battle him. "Dempsey took the hard way to his championship. He proved what he could do under fire before he began to rise. You remember that night in the old ball park at San Francisco when Gunboat Smith landed that right hand on Dempsey's chin and Dempsey came on to fairly chase the Gunner out of the ring. "Not until we got back to the dressing room did we ever know that Dempsey had fought the rest of that fight completely out of his head. He thought he had been knocked out. "Don't tell me that Louis has that kind of fighting heart. No one ever had in the fight game, and I've been monkeying around it for a lot longer than I care to admit." South Awaits Pair of Grid Spectacles DALLIS, Tex. (ANP) — Texas football fans are anxiously looking forward to a pair of important grid tilts that will ultimately ring down the curtain on the football season in the southwest sector. On December 28 over at Tyler, Texas, the Alabama State Hornet, underfeated but one-tied football champions of the Southeastern Conference, will engage the Texas College Steers (the 1935 grid champs of the Southwestern Conference) in post-season contest of national importance. Four days later, the undefeated unscored-upon, but thrice-tied Wiley Wildcats will be the opponents of Sam Taylor's Prairie View Panthers in the latter's Annual New Year's day classic down at Houston, Texas. Coleman Again Elected President of CIAA CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Professor Frank Coleman, of Howard University, was reelected president of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association at its twenty-fifth annual meeting, held here at Johnson C. Smith University last Friday and Saturday. The entire slate of officers was reelected with the exception of Edward N. Wilson, vice-president of the northern district. H. F. Grim, of Lincoln University, was ramed to the vacancy Denies Joe and Marva Are "Blessed-Eventing" CHICAGO (ANP) — Contrary to reports published last week in out-of-town newspapers, Joe Louis and his wife, the former Marva Trotter, are not yet "blessed-eventing." At least, so said Miss Gladys Trotter, sister of Marva. "I have not seen my sister for three weeks," the young woman stated Friday. "but both Joe and Marva are due back here tomorrow. I am absolutely positive that Marva has not started expecting a "blessed event" since I saw her last." Bison Sophs Victors Catching its first victory in the ten-class series, the sophomore football team at Howard University defeated the juniors, 12-0. GENERALS BEAT ALUMNI AS CAGE PLAY BEGINS Orange and Blue Basketers Have. Little Difficulty Disposing of Old Grads The 1955-36 edition of the Armstrong High School Generals opened with cage season with a handy triumph over a team of Alumni stars in the school gymnasium. The score was 37-16. The old grads were never factors in a game which went to the Techites without as little trouble as has ever been the case in one of these engagements. The Orange and Blue varsity counted 14 field goals and 9 fouls while their opponents were scoring only 8 two-pointers. Individual Stars General coaches used a total of 14 players in the contest. Included in this number were six forwards, six guards and two centers. The competition is expected to mean a lot in the matter of cutting the squad, a problem faced by the mentors each year shortly after the end of the Christmas rescheduled when the school cage season is officially opened. Grantland Rice Tells Of Negro Grid Stars Grantland Rice, white, sports authority and noted columnist has the following to say anent two of the race's outsanding football players: "What was the name of Brown's great Negro halfback of nearly 20 years ago? "Pollard was the name Frederick Pollard. He ran in 1916, scoring three touchdowns on long runs against Yale and three more against Harvard on consecutive Saturday, in each case the only touchdowns his team made. He was All-American, one of the few of his race who have been chosen. "What other great Negro football player was an All-American during the war years? Paul Robeson is the answer, Yes, Robeson of Rutgers, now a movie star, opera singer and author. He played end and was on Walter Camp's 1918 team." The above is rewritten from a Rice column captioned "Information Day." Rens to Meet Crack Yonkers Floor Team NEW YORK (ANP) — Christmas night will see the Renaissance big five tackling the snappy team from Yonkers in their annual meet at the Renaissance Casino, in this city. Off to a slow start, the colored champs believe they have hit their stride now, and are preparing to steam-roller all opposition from now on. They, the colored champs, are also appearing on a big benefit card at the Seventy-first Armory, sharing honors with the Jewels, Philadelphia Hebrews and another big team. This promises to be a sell-out, as advance sales have already passed $5,000. Prospects Bright for Union Floor Season RICHMIND, Va. — With practically the same team th. t met with success last season, the Virginia Union University basketball squad is rapidly regaining form in workouts in preparation for the initial game with South Carolina State College, at Richmond on December 20. Eight letter men and a few promising newcomers, composing a squad of ab ut 20, are being whipped into a fast quintet under the careful tutelage of Coach H. B. Hucles. Only three men on last year's year, Edgar Lee, James Warfield and "Fox" Mitchell will be absent when the Panthers begin their campaign of the current season. BRADDOCK READY TO DEFEND TITLE AGAINST LOUIS World Champion Says He Will Meet Bomber If Schmeling "Fades-Out" NEW YORK. — James J. Bradrock, heavyweight champion of the world, may revise his former plans and instead of waiting until next September to defend his title he may enter the ring in June against Joe Louis. Of course, this all depends on whether Max Schmeling returns to this country next spring and carries out his agreement to fight Louis sometime in June at Yankee stadium. Schmeling's Return Doubled It is almost general belief around here these days that Schmeling will waver return to this country for his bout with Louis. Especially after what he saw at Madison Square Garden when the Bomber blasted Paulino Uzcdun into discard in four rounds. If this should happen, Joe Gould Braddock's manager, statis emphatically that the champion will defend his title against Louis In fact, Braddock is anxious to take on Louis and will surely change his plans if a hitch occurs in the proposed Louis-Schmeling scrap. "BAER TOUGHEST FOE," LOUIS Bomber Rates Former World Champ as Most Worthy of Victims NEW YORK. — Joe Louis ranks Max Baer first among the opponents he has battled during his unprecedented rise to the heavy-weight heights Just before he left for Detroit, following his four-round knock-out of Paulino Uzcudun in Madison Square Garden Friday night, Louis was asked for his ratings. Without a moment's hesitation he named Baer "Baer took the most punishment before he stayed down" said Louis, "Everybody said Max quit, but I don't quite agree. I know I flung more than 200 punches into his body and face and still he hung on until the last. The others couldn't take it, Baer did. "I had to hit Max six times for every once I hit the others so he is my No. 1. man." Here is the way Joe ranks his opponents: Max Baer, Primo Carrera, Lee Ramage, Patsy Perroni, Alex Borchaux, Paulino Uzudun, Kingfish Levinsky and Natie Brown. Paulino Never Drew Color Line in Ring NEW YORK (ANP)—Joe Louis was the third colored fighter met by Paulino Uzcudun. The first, Harry Wills, at the end of his rope, was knocked out by the Spaniard; his second meeting was with George Godfrey, who won from Paulino. At no time has Paulino drawn the color line, and neither has he ever been accused of laying down in any fight. 'Bama State to Meet MONTGOMERY. Ala. — Announcement was made recently by the local state teachers' college athletic committee that arrangements have been made with the officials of Texas College, of Tyler, Texas, for a championship game between the Alabama State Hornets, champions of the Southern Conference, and the Texas College Steers, winners of the Southwestern Conference pennant, on December 27, in Tyler, Texas. Two Bison Basketers Banned by CIAA Joe Sewall and Tom, Reed, veteran cage players of the Howard University championship basketball team, were declared ineligible for future participation in C.I.A.A. contests, in a ruling issued at the annual meeting at Charlotte, N.C., last week-end. Sewall and Reed, along with Larry Bleach and Martin Pree, of Lincoln, were barred because of having engaged in an interfraternal game during last season. The national harvest of kidrapers seems to be on. Just sit pretty and leave it up to wour Uncle Samuel. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1935 Indicted for Manslaughter, Jack Blackburn May Face Perjury Trainer of Joe Louis to Go to Trial in Connection With Fatal Shooting Scrape on Chicago Street; Both Sides Promise Startling Revelations The World Of Sport In Short By F. M. Davis Nebraska Soph Wins Wrestling Honors LINCOLN, Neb. (ANP)—John C. Williams, of Omaha, sophomore at the University of Nebraska, has won the school championship for his weight in wrestling, it was announced last week. He was also awarded a medal for showing the most strength and pinning his man more quickly than could any other winner. Williams, who is also making a commendable scholastic record, is a pledgee to Eta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. Indicted for Ma Blackburn Ma Trainer of Joe Louis to Go Fatal Shooting Scrape Sides Promise St CHICAGO (ANP)—With both sides claiming that sensational disclosures will be made at the trial Jack Blackburn, along with William Parnell and John Bowman were indicted by the Grand Jury here Thursday on charges of assault with intent to kill, grown out of the alleged gun battle stage by the trio Sunday afternoon, October 20, during which Lucy Cannon, 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cannon was seriously wounded and Enoch Houser was killed. The date of the trial was set for Monday. According to reports following the hearing before the Grand Jury the charges of manslaughter against Blackburn and Parnell and that of murder against Bowman was changed to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill based upon the shooting of the little Cannon girl and in addition to being indicted on the aforementioned charges, Joe Louis's trainer also charges a charge of perjury due to his persistent testimony that he was unarmed and did not participate in the battle. Sensational Disclosures Promised Thirty-three witnesses appeared before the Grand Jury to support the claim of the State and testified that Blackburn was armed and took part in the shooting in which The World Off By F. M MEET OTIS THOMAS CHICAGO—It will always be a pleasure to talk with Otis Thomas, former Golden Gloves heavyweight champion now following the trail blazed by Joe Louis, because one can feel he talks with a large gatehring. Then, too, it is a relief for a six foot, one inch 198 pounder like your correspondent to now and then be in the company of people who could look upon him in the physical light of a little brother, Otis Thomas, except when fighting, weighs around 210. Quite naturally one is very polite in addressing Mr. Thomas I mean, a sensible person doesn't take undue liberties when talking to a young man built powerfully enough to go lion hunting with a broken arm and no gun even if the young man does resemble a college student. Furthemore, Mr. Thomas was showing us very impressive pictures printed in the St. Louis dailies of his five round knockout victory over Irwin Striebel, 243 pound Italian leather slinger, on December 4. "I haven't lost any one of my four fights since turning professional last June," Mr. Thomas told us, "but I was held to a draw by Adolph Wiater." This Winter chap is something of a trouble maker. He was one of the few to stay the limit with Joe Louis and the opponent Joe says has given him his hardest fight. Striebel, too, had been a trifle bothersome. Twice before when both Otis and the Italian were amateurs, they met and Thomas got both decisions, although spectators protested. Their recent bout was a natural for St. Louis, and this time Otis gave his ring foe a personal taste of Adowa. It's getting to be a habit for a kinsman of Mussolini to lose out in the same ring with one of Selassie's cousins Mr. Thomas, as he told of himself, sat playing the steam radiator like an accordion. This was all right, as in cold weather the radiator replaces the frigidaire anyway. But next time he comes by, I shall arrange to have a supply of iron crowbars. I imagine he could tie some fancy knots in them. It seems the young boxer, now 24, was born in Crawfordsville, Ark. He has been boxing since coming here two years ago. In Omega Tackles Alpha New Year's Day NEW YORK (ANP) — Under the leadership of Gordon Croques, Omega's basketball team plays its annual New Year's Day game with Alpha at the Renaissance Casino. Flooring a stronger team this year than ever before. Croques has his eye on the fraternity championship this year. He believes he can do it with his present aggregation, and following the Alpha game, will have his charges ready to take on the other frat teams in rotation. unslaughter, Jack y Face Perjury to Trial in Connection With on Chicago Street; Both cartling Revelations Houser was killed and little Lucy Cannon was shot. One of the wit- nesses went so far, again to de- lare that Blackburn fired the shot that fatally wounded Houser. Blackburn on the other hand has maintained that he was unarmed and therefore could not have fired the shot. His testimony was sub- stantiated by three alleged wit- nesses to the gun-battle Both the State, and the counsel for the defense have promised many sensational disclosures when the trial is held Monday. The State armed with evidence alleged to have been gained through the effors of Sheridan A. Brusenaux, private detective, has time and again mentioned that efforts have been made to "fix" the case, dating back to the first arrest of the defendants, according to reports, and involving the police making the arrest and the inquest into the killing of Houser Counsel for the defense, rumor has it, will attempt to prove that efforts have been prevalent to "shake-down" Blackburn and that evidence will be produced substantiating this claim at the trial. Interest in the case is at fever heat and when the case is called Monday morning it is evidenced by the interest on the part of local citizens that the courtroom will be crowded. Sport In Short M. Davis 1994 he was national and international Golden Gloves champion and last year was runner-up, losing to Lorenzo Pack. Since turning pro in June, Otis, a southpaw, has been made over into an orthodox right hander which has greatly improved his effectiveness. As a matter of fact, when Thomas went to the A.A.U. meet in St. Louis in 1934 critics wondered who would go farther, Otis or Joe Louis. Thomas loves to fight. He is one of the strongest looking lads since Hercules, and if he takes care of himself should be one of the best for the next eight or ten years. He at present lacks Joe's cleverness, but I'd rather be kicked by a mule than hit by Thomas. In addition to Joe and Otis, two other Golden Gloves champions were destined to do their bit to muss up the boxing picture. Loren-Pack is really going places, but Clinton Bridges seems to have fallen by the wayside. By the wav. Striebel was champion of Missouri, which makes Thomas kininn now of that state. There are only 47 more to go to get the U. S. diadem. Otis is managed by David H. Caplow, and assistant-managed by Chandler Owen—which he may in time overcome. --- Simmons' Story Credit this to Harvey Woodruff's column in the Chicago Tribune. "At the Northwestern-Iowa game a sweet young thing was rooting enthusiastically for the Purple. Time and again Ozzie Simmons of Iowa frustrated her hopes for victory. At the game's conclusion in a scorele tie, she said: 'I'm mad at everyone in the world and everyone in the stadium and most of all at Abraham Lincoln.'" Incidentally, the team picked by Ted Husing of the CBS giving the Wizard of Oz the halfback berth was All-Radio, and not All-American, according to the official announcement by CBS. Fort Myers fishermen are beating the mango swamps for a six-foot lizard. My, that cocoanut milk is strong! Hands across the sea-but nothing in them. TEACHERS BOW IN CAGE OPENER AT BALTIMORE Miner Floormen No Match for Morgan Bears; Covington Shows to Advantage BALTIMORE. Md — Coach Harold D. Martin's Miner Teacher College basketball team met defeat in its opening game of the season here last Friday night when the strong Morgan College outfit laced them to the tune of 45-28 The visiting Teachers were never any match for the Bruins, the score at half being 23-11. That same margin of difference was retained by the locals throughout the second period although the Minerites strove valiantly to get into the running. Lampkin Star Lampkin, veteran center from last year's combination; shared the limelight with Smith, a teammate in the matter of scoring. Both counted 9 points. Cole and McNeil were best, with 7 points each, for the losers. The floorwork of Covington stood out in the invaders' play, while the guarding of Dorsey of the Bears was superb. HOWARD GRIDMEN GET VARSITY "H" 16 Awarded Letters at 1935 Football Banquet Coach Speaks Sixteen members of Howard University's football team were given the varsity "H" at the annual football banquet held on the university campus, last night (Thursday). Speeches were made by Coach Charlie West, Dean E.; P. Davis, President Mordecki Johnson; Capt. Bishop B. Hart and Joe Cole, assistant varsity coach and officer of the "H" Club. Those receiving the insignia were Capt. Bish Hart, LaVerte Armstrong, George Brown; Howard Contee, John Chandler; Francis Fenwick, Robert Gordon; Dennethe Harrod, George Jarrett; Cedric B. Jessup, Bernard Johnston, John Oxley; Wendell Parris, Justin Plummer; Berry Williams and Nathaniel Wrig.². "Uncle" Mike Jacobs NEW YORK (ANP) — Sp successful in handling the affairs of Joe Louis is Mike Jacobs, the promoter, that Joe has adopted him and now refers to him as "Uclee Mike." Louis also like the referee who handles most of the bouts for Jacobs here, Arthur Donovan. In Louis's three big fights in New York City. Donovan has always been the third man in the ring. Juniors Down Seniors Howard University Junior football eleven defeated the Seniors, 13-7, in the annual class game held in the university stadium, Saturday Tech Niters to Travel The Armstrong Night High School quintet: under the leadership of James O. Williams, will travel to Chester, Pa., January 17, to meet the Elk Collegians Payne Beaten BUTTE, Mont. — Cecil Payne, Seattle slugger, lost on a close decision to Low Massey, white. Philadelphia, here Monday night in a 10-round scrap. Payne suffered cuts over the eye in the early rounds. He weighed 134 pounds, Massey 137. Jack Johnson Looks On At Louis Fight NEW YORK (ANP)—Present, but not introduced. Jack Johnson saw the Louis-Uzoudun fight from a seat in the twenty-third row of the ringside section. Other notables were not as easily spotted as in the open-air fights where there is plenty of room to circulate, but Alex Pomnez, owner of the New York Cubans, occupied a box seat with Mrs. Pompes, and a suspiciously similar shape to that of Fats Waller passed through the aisle on his way to a sea. BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL Sportsmanship of Andy Kerr and Colgate Team Cited by Simmons Veteran Grid Mentor Lauded for Stand Taken On Manner in Which Red Raiders Should Play Star Colored Back; Oze Praised in Dressing Room Only Two Lettermen Missing from Championship Quint With the Alumni tilt scheduled for last Monday postponed because of examinations of the graduate students, the 1935-36 basketball season at Howard University will not open until after the Christmas holidays when the Bison quint battles the South Carolina State College aggregation on the university floor. Meanwhile, Coach Johnny Burr and his assistant, Sallie Hall, are sending the Blue and White courtment through practices paces in preparation for the opening tilt and defense of the C.I.A.A championship which the locals have maintained for the past two years. Pivot Post Weak Coach Burr's chief problem to date appears to be the replacement of ex-Captain Turkey Pinn at center. With Captain Willie Wynne and Herbie Jones, star forwards of last's quint back, and Millard (Bootnose) Williams, Justin Plummer and a freshman, Woodrow Gwaltney, showing great promise on the defensive, the Bison mentor's only weak spot seems to be the center post. Tom Reid, member of the 1933-34 championship combination, may get the call at the pivot position. Reid has reported for practice and appears in good condition. Art Carter, another member of the '33-34 titular quint, has also reported for practice. 1935's Best 1935's Best The official ratings of athletes are as follows: 1. Joe Louis, Detroit heavyweight boxer, 182. 2. W. Lawson Little, Jr., British and American amateur golf champion, 129. 3. Jesse Owens, Ohio State, track and field record holder, 61. 4. John Jacob Berwanger, Chicago, all-America halfback, 42. 5. Mickey Cochran, manager Detroit Tigers, world baseball champion, 19. 6. Sir Malcolm Campbell, England, holder of auto speed record, 13. 7. Andy Piiney, Notre Dame halfback, 11. 8. Eulace Peacock, Temple, national A.A.U. broad jump and sprint champion, 5. 9. Wilmer Allison, Texas, national singles tennis champion, 5. 10. James J. Braddock, New Jersey, heavyweight boxing, champion sey, heavyweight boxing champion. 1. Tommy Bridges, Detroit Tigers, pitcher, 4. 12. Danno O'Mahoney, Ireland, professional wrestling leader, 3. 13. Hank Greenberg, Detroit Tiger's first baseman and slugger, 3. 14. Jerome (Dizzy) Dean, St. Louis Cardinals" pitcher, 3. Two points each for the following: Goose Goslin, Detroit outfielder and world series hero; Kelly Petillo, winner of Indianapolis 500. mile auto race, and Lon Warneke, Chicago Cubs" pitching star. One point each for the following: Jack Lovelock, New Zealand miler and conquerer of American stars; Wally Berger, Boston Braves' outfielder; Buddy Myer, Washington second baseman and American League batting champion; Henry Picard, professional golfer; Marvin Owens, Detroit infielder, for his world series work as first base replacement; Fred Perry, British Davis Cup ace and Wimbledon singles champion, and Big Bill Tilden, veteran tennis professional. Josephine Baker Featured in Ziegfeld Follies BOSTON, — World premiere of the 1936 edition of the famous Ziegfeld Follies, produced by Billie Burke, wife of the late Flo Ziegfeld, will be held at the Boston Opera House beginning Christmas night. Josephine Baker brown star, will be one of the big attractions. NEW YORK—(ANP)—When the final discussions of the brilliant football season recently closed have been ended, one of the things that will stand out in the minds of all who followed the gridiron was the very fine stand taken by Andy Kerr. coach of the noted Colgate university "Red Raiders" who played Iowa and Ozze Simmons. Before the game, Kerr told his men to forget that Simmons was colored and to treat him just like any other member of the Iowa team. This is in distinct contrast to instructions given other teams where it is alleged that "get Simmons" was the password. After the game which Colgate lost largely through the superefforts of Simmons, the colored star went to the Colgate dressing room and told Kerr that his team was the greatest bunch of sportsmen he had ever played against. This was a tribute to the entire Colgate team as well as to the coach, who has never been guilty of a faux pas along the color line. Kerr is one of the football instructors at the annual summer school held at Hampton Institute. ARMSTRONG NIGHT CAGERS TRIUMPH Defeat Monroe A.C. Quint In Overtime Game; Bush Is Star After dropping a 34-14 decision to the fast-stepping Miner Teachers' College five, the Armstrong Night High School quintet squeezed out a hot and close 29-28 margin over the Monroe A.C., on the school floor Monday night. The Monroe outfit was headed only after five minutes of hectic, overtime play. Captain Ivan Bush, who was absent from the Armstrong Night-Miner game, was very much in evidence in the Monday night fracas. The elongated Tech guard scored thrice from the field and once from the charity mark for a total of 7 points. The score sheet, however, does not show the extent to which he played the floor, both on attack and defense. The Nighters will oppose the Y.M.C.A. Protons on January 2. From that point, they will meet an opponent every Thursday night in the Tech gymnasium. She "Thought Joe Louis Was Colored" KANSAS CITY (ANP) One of the most interesting stories growing out of Jim Braddock's recent visit is centered around an elderly, unnamed white woman who, seeing a crowd gathered around the world's heavyweight boxing champion, queried of one of the crowd. "Who is that they are crowding around?" "The champion boxer of the world," was the answer. The woman edged her way through the crowd where she could get a look at the champion, and said: "Oh, I always thought Joe Louis was colored." The greatest disappointment in the world is to have a pretty girl when you haven't a coupe. Ye Olde Cock Crows 327 814 639 500 277 032 974 602 449 826 138 746 ```markdown ``` --- Sonata Program Featured at D. C. Conservatory The last week's recital of the student educational series at the Washington Conservatory of Music featured the Sonata. Its origin, form and development was read by Mrs. Florence "orbes; Illustrated by Sherman Smith. Those whoook part in the program were Deloris Devault, Catcta Harris, Rythm Bond, Juvenile Department; Joseph Hicks, Mabel Young; Lucile Patterson, Robbie Chose and Edith King. The hall was filled with students parents, and friends who joined in a pleasant social at the end of the program. The Association for the Development of Negro Music is pushing plans and rehearsals of the drama, "The Life, Love, and Music of S. Coleridge Taylor." Carl Hall Honored With Gay Birthday Party Friends of Carl Hall, 1927. Seventeenth Street, Northwest, honored with a gay party in celebration of his birthday at the above residence, Saturday. Card playing and dancing featured the evening's amusement. Among those present were Miss Vivian Shannon, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rice, Miss Ellen Carter, Essmun Hall, William Baton and A. Carter. Harris-Peyton Nuptials Are Announced Invitations have been mailed by Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Peyton. 1918 Eleventh Street, Northwest, announcing the proposed marriage if their daughter, Evelyn, popular member of the local younger set, to John Harris, well known swimming instructor and athletic leader. The rites are to be performed Christmas evening at 7 o'clock at the Third Baptist Church. H. U Women Students Sponsor "Salon" Series A series of "Salons," sponsored by the staff of the dean of women, for the women of the Graduate Division, Howard University, has been started. This first campus "Salon" was held in the parlors of Julia Caldwell Frazier Hall, last week. Short talks were given by Dr. E. Franklin Frazier, professor of sociology, who outlined some of the findings of his Harlem Study of Racial Conditions, and by Miss Marion Bowden, who gave the history of the French Salon. Mrs Marie Frazier read from original poems, and Miss Carolyn Lucas contributed piano selections. Dr. and Mrs. Frazier, Dr. Anna J. Cooper of Frelinghuysen University, Acting-Dean William E. Tay'or of the School of Law, Louis T. Achille of the Department of Romance Languages, and the young women of the Graduate Division, resident in the dormitory, were present. The "Salon" is to be a regular event of the winter months. Deuce and Aces Split Double Match The Red Team of the Twelve Aces maintained its winning streak by defeating the Deuces Red Team at the Mu-So-Lit Club, Tuesday, by a margin of over 5,000 points. The Blue Team of the Deuces, however, retaliated by taking the Blue Team of the Aces by 1,200 points. With this match, the Deuces and the Aces completed their schedule of games for the first half of the league season. Although several of the other clubs have games yet to play in the first half, the standing of the Aces as the league leaders is not menaced. With a total of eight wins and two losses, five consecutive wins for the Red Team with no losses, and three wins with two losses for the Blue Team, no other team can attain the average which is now held by the Aces; that is, during this half of the schedule. The defeat of the Aces' Blue Team on Tuesday was largely due to the bidding and play of two particular boards—boards 4 and 9. Board 5 was played at six diamonds (Aces) by Ransom and Carr (Aces) playing North and South against Baron and Saunders (Deuces). The successful play of the hand hinged upon the capturing of a trump honor. Ransom playing the and, played for the drop of that honor, but found the distribution of opponents' trumps, three and one with the honor in the long hand. The finesse would have made the contract. Mrs. Baron and Mrs Reid (Deuces), paying the same hand against Heathcock and Edmonston (Aces), bid three no trump, making six no trump on the hand, the finesse being take on the diamond play. Although the Deuces did not arrive at a slam contract, the board proved a loss to the Aces of nearly 800 points. Board 9 was bid by Heathcohes and Edmonston (Aces) playing North and South against Mrs. Baron and Mrs. Reid (Ducces) at five diamonds, down two doubled. Mr. Baron and Victor Daly (Ducces) bid and made three no trump on the same hand; playing against Ransom and Carr (Aces). This board cost the Aces several hundred points. The sensational Red Team of the Aces. John Alexander and Roscoe Alexander (alternate, Mr. Worrell) and Carter and Juggins easily won the Red match, the Red Team of the Ducces showing very little form. Vivian Wishes You All A Merry, Merry Christmas Bv VIVIAN TURNER over the horizon. At this season our thoughts whose loyalty and friendliness have assisted seed of friendship planted by you, my readers, esrt a large Christmas tree grows. The can- g with love, and the twigs with good wishes health, wishes for wealth and wishes for peace Christmas bring those richest gifts of joy and glad- the Christmas star each year your happiness Christmas locums over the horizon. At this season our thoughts burn gratefully to those whose loyalty and friendliness have assisted our progress. From the seed of friendship planted by you, my readers, in the garden of my heart a large Christmas tree grows. The candles thereon are burning with love, and the twigs with good wishes are bent—wishes for health, wishes for wealth and wishes for peace and content. May Christmas bring those richest gifts of joy and gladness to you and may the Christmas star each year your happiness renew. Have you received your bid to the Derby's early winter dance? They are beautiful, heavily engraved, they carry with them the spirit of the Yuletide. This club was fortunate in arranging for their dance at the Colonnade or else their fate would have been as that of the Appomato Club. The Derby's dance will start the holiday activities off. Friday evening the 20th is the date and the Colonnade is the place. cott, is placing on exhibition. We understand that one was the handwork of Mrs. J Frances Gregory and the other was made and presented to the committee by a group of ladies, headed by Mrs. Eugene Clark. You better hurry and get your bid in before it is too late. Again the popular Tempo Choral Society is being brought to the public. A Yule presentation of Handel's Masiah will be Those who loved the cultural atmosphere and the beautiful appointments of the main auditorium of Masonic Temple cannot help but grieve when they realize that every piece of drapery, each chair, and the beautiful sparkling dome which turned gayly at all dances was removed last week and sold at auction to make ready for the government offices which will open with the coming of the New Year. With this information necessarily comes the sad news that the Appomatto Club will not be able to have their dance planned for December 29th. The boys are greatly disappointed. Invites were ready for mailing; many novel features had been arranged and many friends had already purchased the latest in feminine wear for the occasion. On last Wednesday evening the Young People's Club of St Lukes P.E. Church gave a most enjoyable tacky dance. Costumes of every description—tacky of course—were worn. However, judges selected from the guests present, thought that Mrs. Thelma Wauls from Arlington, Va., displayed the best costume, Miss Johnson, the second best and Mr. Bernard Pryor, next. Prizes were awarded accordingly. People are clamoring to get a coupon allowing them a vote in the disposition of the two georgeous Afghans which the Camp Committee, interested in Camp Clarissa as Play Given by tional School Christmas Play Given by Vocational School "The Gifts We Bring," a Christmas play was given on Tuesday evening, December 17 in the auditorium of the John F. Cook School by the pupils of the Margaret Washington Vocational School under the sponsorship of the Parent-Teacher Association. A large and appreciative crowd was present. The play was dedicated to all those who live the spirit of Christmas in this land of Everyday. It was hoped that the story as it was woven into the pageant would help each one present to celebrate the Birthday of the King. Opening remarks were made by Martha Slaughter, president of the Student Council. Those taking part were Father Time, Bertie Cook; Mother, Marjorie Coleman; the children, Audrey Parker, Margaret Johnson; Christmas Fairy, Victoria Butler; Fairy of Love, Eva Dade; Fairy of Peace, Mayo Bots; Fairy of Goodwill, Elizabeth Johnson; Santa Claus, Maggie Johnson; Snow Fairy, Helen Fleet; Jack Frost, Geneva Fennell; Fairy of Play, Claudina Steiner; Fairy of Joyfulness, Vivian Harris; Spirit of America, Martha Greene; Spirit of Peace, Annabelle Tibbs; Child of France, Ozellar Johnson; Child of Ethiopia, Menthaola Powell; Child of England, Helen Miller; Child of Japan, Annette Saterfield; Child of China, Margaret Broadus; Indian Maid, Eleanor Holland; Jumping Jacks, Mary Coleman, Vera Black, Helen Johnson, Doris Keating, Sarah Edwards, Thelma Brown; Tinsel Fairies; Violet Coleman, Arlene Anderson, Rita Robinson; Automatic Dolls, Annie Savoy, Lois Murray, Mary Johnson, Mattie Irby, Helen Gant. French Dolls: Hazel Davis, Mary Colbert, Evelyn Roberts, Margaret Whitehead, Ruth Delaney, Mary Holland, Doris Wilcox, Snow Bird: Consuella Thomas; Colored Balls: Georgia Bailey, Frances Campbell, Rosa Young, Corinne Cooper, Pearl Samuel, Annie Tibb: Cibb; Katie Barnes, Lucille Brooks, Helen Jones, Thomasaena Johnson; Holly: Sarah Fletcher, Mamie Cole. Acknowledgement was made to all departments of the school for their efforts in making this school playlet a success. Mrs E. R. Nickens created and instructed the dances: Mrs. Smith rendered music; the ladies of the Domestic Art Department, Mrs G. M. Houston, Mrs. M. S. Reeder, Mrs. L. J. Edwards, Mrs. C. E. Douglass, Miss S. V. Jennings, Mrs E. D. Eurrell, Mrs. M. P. Coates. 1. Country: --- cott, is placing on exhibition. We understand that one was the handwork of Mrs. J Frances Gregory and the other was made and presented to the committee by a group of ladies, headed by Mrs. Eugene Clark. You better hurry and get your bid in before it is too late. Again the popular Tempo Choral Society is being brought to the public. A Yule presentation of Handel's Mesiah will be given by them Sunday afternoon. December 29 at 5 o'clock in the Dunbar High School auditorium. Maude Smothers, soprano; Evelyn Russ, contralto; Oberton Holmon, tenor; John Barnes, baritone; Montrose Edloe, pianist. Mrs. Carrie Knox, secretary and Dr. W. Scott Mayo, director. Dr. Ulysses Martin accompanied by Drs F. D. Whitby and Jesse Keene attended the fight last week in New York City. No doubt we will hear of these medics catching a fast airplane for Havana on the eve of the 29th for they are enthusiastic fans at these fistic encounters The Children's Theatre sponsored by the Y.W.C.A. Community Committee under the auspices of the Community Center is presenting "Robin Hood" in the Armstrong High School auditorium on Friday afternoon, December 27 a.m. 3 o'clock John Dancy, of Detroit, Mich. passed through the city last week enroute to New York to the Louis-Uzcudun match. Dr. Henry A. Green, a member of the Board of Athletic Control of Howard University, attended the meeting of the C.I.A.A. in Charlotte, N.C., last week. Others from this city seen at the fight last were Hon. J. Finley Wilson, Jack Ryan and Stephen Plummer. with Mrs. E. T. Mayer, chairman, designed and made the costumes; the Art Department under the instruction of Mrs. B. E. Edwards, created and made the scenery, programs and invitations; the Dyeing and Cleaning Department dyed and cleaned costumes; the Glee Club under the direction of Mrs. L. H. Pinbackc furnished the singing assisted by Mrs. Beleno; Mrs. V. T. Turner, Mrs. L. H. Pinbackc, Mrs. W. C. Dodson, Mrs. A. G. Lewis staged and directed the play assisted by Mrs. O. J. Lancaster; Mrs. E. H. Blake, Mrs. C. E. Douglass, Mrs. R. W. Clifford and Mrs. C. P. Robertson directed ushers; Mrs B. E. Edwards assisted by Owen Ridgely handled lights; Miss G. E. Jones and Mrs. M. D. Bell handled tickets; Mrs. F. P. Clark and her girls shampooed and curled the hair of the participants; the custodians helped in every situation. Miss L C Randolph is principa of the school and Mrs. W. C. Dodson, counselor. NEW DEAL WHIST CLUB The New Deal Whist Club suffered its first defeat of the season at the hands of the Wizzard Club, this week. The margin of victory was 85 points. A return game between the two clubs will be arranged this winter. DILLY-DALLY CLUR Mrs. Helena Kirkland will be hostess to the club at her Fairmont Heights home. Saturday. SENATORS WHIST CLUB The Senators clipped the Eagles Whist Club's wings, last week, to make it ten in a row for the season. Tom Weaks, team captain, led his cohorts to victory by protecting a small led in the last sitting. KORN KOBB KLUB The club defeated the L. and B Whist Club by 29 points, the Happy Pals by a margin of 49 points and tied with the Whippi Club last week. The score in the tie game was 324-all. RIVIERA CLUB Miss Margaret Y. Rucker, 1103 P Street, Northwest, was hostess to the club at her home last Friday night. Members present were Misses Eddie Lee Meltz, Vernie Rucker, Rebecca Riden, Nana Mallory. Guest was Miss Ruby M. Rucker. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1935 PEARLIE'S PRATTLE All About Lovely Ladies and Big, Bold, Wonderful Men Children'sTheatreGroup Plans 4 Plays for Season Whether lovely Jane Evelyn Peyton, of 1918 Eleventh Street, hangs mistletoe up in her home or not she's going to be kissed on Christmas day. Admiring friends, adoring relatives and (best of all) bridegroom will surely see to that If "A merry heart doeth good like medicine" then patients at Walter Reed Hospital who are in adjacent beds to the one occupied by Mr. Thomas C. R. Bragg, of 1419 Fifth Street, should be requiring fewer pills and capsules, what with Mr. Bragg's jolly manner and all to help them get well. Three rousing cheers for the Derby Club for voting their friends an extra "snoozing" hour. The small white guest card for their Friday night dance bears the following notation: "Postively no one admitted after 1 A.M." Now in all your comings and goings you've never met anyone yet who wanted to start for home before a Derby dance was over. Even the clerks and smart stenographers who must "punch the clock" next morning at half rast eight or nine, stay right on hand till "Home, Sweet Home" sends them on their way. Indeed, if the Derby's began their dances at dawn you and I would be there with the rest (that is, of course, if we got our hands on the coveted cards). But now with a limited hour for admission, the guests will gather early and the club can thus move up its accustomed closing time. So, bravely noble Derby's for launchin an "Early Hours" campaign. Maybe your next invitations will read: "Positively no one admitted after eleven o'clock P.M." And maybe, other wise clubs will follow your lead, and who knows? In a year or so Washington's lovely women will be even lovelier than ever before (extra long maps will make 'em so, "they say"). And as for the men, if early hour he made the rule, maybe some of the Capital's "Mr. Handsome's" will grow into young Joe Louis's. (The newsman says, you know, that part of the "Bomber's amazing strength is due to his twelve-hour "snoozes" per day.) When a lady has a sweet countenance like Mrs. Anna Noble, of Gizard Street, Northwest, there ought to be a law against allowing her to choose a bag of sugar as a bridge prize. She did that very thing the other night. Walked off with five or ten pounds when the "sweets" (if any) should have gone to pickle-faced people like me. It's Christmas time alright. You can tell it by the way hearts are opening to bring songs of cheer in to saddened lives. You can tell it by the way hands are opening to let bread fall into needy neighbors' laps. You can tell it by the way windows are opening to let Santa Claus in (where there's no chimney for him to come through). You can tell by the noise mischievous "Jimmie" and "Johnnie" and their small sister, Mable are making as they fall over sofas, chair, and boxes looking for Christmas signs (suspicious bags or bundles or what not)—By the odor of fruit cake being cooked on Q Street in the home of Mr. and Mrs. "Abe" Gates. And everybody wise enough to buy one clamping the lid of the cake tint to keep from eating the contents up before Santa Claus even arrives in town.— By the way Mrs. Edna French is rushing her new Chrysler up and down town on her shopping tours while some of us struggle along in slow old Fords, or hang on to street car straps, and get pokes in the nose from gay-colored panel rolls, and nips on the shins from sharp-edged boxes and The Children's Theatre Group of the Community Committee of the Phyllis Wheatley Y.W.C.A. will open its 1955-36 season with the presentation of Clare Tree Major Theatre of New York in the play, "Robin Hood" at the Armstrong High School auditorium, next Saturday, December 27. "Robin Hood" will be followed by three plays as follows: "Heidi" on February 15; "The Secret Garden," March 28, and "Beauty and the Beast" on April 18. Rose L. Clifford is chairman of the Community Committee and Sallie Fisher Clark, chairman of the theatre project. All who have played the game of Robin Hood and his Merry Men knew that Robin's men were all dressed in Lincoln green, carried longbows made of yew, and shot from them arrows trimmed with the gray-goose feather. They are familiar with Robin's famous ho n, that he 'wound' as a signal to his bundles in the arms or hands or shopping bags of over-loaded shoppers.— By the be-a-u-tiful lace dress Mrs. Dollie Reid is designing for her own sweet self to wear to the annual Christmas Reception of the Y.W.C.A.— By the way smart young Curtis Mitchell is slamming shut his jaw books (he's at Howard University) and turning to day-dreams of Denver (his home).— By the vari-colored electric light bulbs that are being assembled in the home of Mrs. J. H. Prater (and those of her neighbors) in the 1700 block of Fifteenth Street, Northwest. On Christmas Day, and through the holiday season, the lights will sparkle brightly on pretty green trees, a delight to passersby.— You can tell it's Christmas by the way Dr. H. C. Balden beans as he thinks of his first "Noel" mid-new-found friends in Fairmont Heights.— You can tell by the jay in the Gray household where Mrs "Breadie" Gray and her popular daughters are happy over the visit of the husband and father who has long been ill in Old Virginia. Mr. Gray has only a week to stay. And won't it be short for "Tordic," "Tootie," Olga and the rest— You can also tell by the way the popular Futuristic Social Club not only "kept up with the Jones" the other night but really went miles past 'em by giving a Cocktail Party at the Colonnade. "Twapier, too. The clever sign man (a Mr. Clifford or something) took a lot of pains and made the Club's name grow right out of the top of twenty cocktail glasses. The goblets were fashioned of card-broad, of course, and stood tall and artistic in front of the handstand. As if the members themselves didn't look lovely enough in their long flowing evening gowns they added corsages of rose buds and maidenhair ferns held together with silver ribbon. Among the members are Mrs. Mace Curtis, Mrs. Dorothy Foster, Mrs. Elizabeth Marshall, Mrs. Irene Sewell, Mrs. Annie Greenfield, Mrs. Ola Wiggins, Miss Annie Fuller and Miss Leona Wright. Merss, Chester Curtis, Cabell and Foster presided over the "bar." But "twas the gowns of the women that got your attention and held it. Miss Flora Lee was resplendent in figureed face with one large red robe the only bit of trimming charming Mrs. Greenfield, wife of Dr. Vincent Greenfield, was a picture in black embellished with rhinestone. A cut thing in Navy blue with silver cute in with Mr. Robert S. Smith. She asked sweetly as they strolled into the hall. "Have you written our own but I forgot your guest's name off because I wasn't quite sure which girl I'd bring along." And you should have heard the cute thing in blue reply: "Oh Yeal!" Among others seen at the dance were Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cheek, Mr. and Mrs. Wm Derrick, tall, looking good by J. Washington (of the "Barons' Club). Miss Agnes Mewers, Miss Myrtle Leatherwood Mr. James Turrer, Dr. Wm. Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Boll, Mrs. Listerine Gardner, Mrs. Ida Roberts and Mrs. Fannie Allen, smiling little proprietress of the "Fannie Beauty Shop." Also Mrs. Regina Chandler, of the "Kiddies' Show on Ninth Street, and Mr. A E Smith, of the "Music Studio" at 749 Park Road. On, on into the morning hours the music of the "Blue Birds" continued. Rudolph Craig (well-known singer) came out again and again to a bit of warbling. The first formal dance of the Futuristic Social Club was finally over and every guest went home hoping it wouldn't be their last. band to come to him, and they know of his feud with the greedy Abbot of Emmet Priory and with the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham. Little John. Wat the Tinker, Will Scratel and Allan a Dale are all familiar figures, while Friar Tuck has friends everywhere. When Robin Hood comes to Washington the well-known figures will all be there, and they will be true to life and to tradition. Robin will wear his horn over his shoulder and will carry his long yewbow. Little John is indeed a giant of a man, and Friar Tuck is as fat and jolly as he is in the stories. The gay antics, the merry morris dancing and the happy singing of the outlaws are all included. MAESTROS WHIST CLUB The club defeated the Lone Deuces, 352 to 299, at the residence of the president, W. F. Joyee, 38 Q Street. Northwest. Mahoney and Phillips made 100 points Yule Plays will Feature YWCA Holiday Program Among Washington Clubs "An Evening With Living Madonas" will be presented Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at the Phyllis Wheatley Y.W.C.A. The play will be directed by Gregoria F. Goins. Members of the Girl Reserves presented a program of Christmas carols on Thursday. Mrs Ethel Just is chairman of the group and Miss Sara Magowan and Mrs. Mardel Bundur, secretaries. On Monday the members of the group will join with a post of the American Legion in a party for under-privilleged children. On the day after Christmas the Girl Reserves will make Christmas cheer trips to the Laurel Training School, the Stoddard Baptist Home and St. Ann's Home. The Community Committee will present "Robin Hood" at the Arm- AUTOCRAT BRIDGE CLUB Mrs. Marie Johnson was hostess to the club at her residence, 6111 Dix Street, Northeast, Friday. Members present were Mesdames Helena Kirkland, Alva Gay, Nancy Carroll, Christine Bryson, Clarice Wilson, Lena Harrison and Miss Grace McDowell. Club prizes were won by Mrs. Lena Harrison and Mrs. Nancy Carroll. Guest prize was awarded to Miss Ruth Jones. Final plans were made for a whist tournament. SPOTLIGHT CLUB Mrs. Vista Kirksey was hostess to the club at her apartment, 2111 Second Street, Northwest. Thursday. Officers elected were Mrs. Gertrude Harrison, president; Mrs. Vista Kirksey, vice-president; Miss Mabel Nizer, treasurer, and Mrs. Helen Kirkland, secretary. DARING DAMES Miss Carrie Bell was hostess to the club at her residence, 2723 Eleventh Street, Northwest KARNESHAW WHIST CLUB The club met at the home of Nathaniel Dickens, 1512 Corcoran Street, Northwest, last Tuesday. Plans for $^4$ a dance during the Christmas holidays were called off. NINE COUNTS The club was entertained by Daniel Smallwood, of Whitelaw Hotel, Saturday. Members present were Robert S. Smith, Emanuel Carr, Thomas Holland, James Sellers, Raymond L. Furbey, Stockton James, Daniel Smallwood and Langford Wiggins GINGERETTE BRIDGE AND SOCIAL CLUB The club met at the residence of Helen Crew, Friday. Club members present were Helen Crew, Anna Staton, Norma Johnson, Marie Harvey, Ruth McLeish, Laura Robinson, Ethel Colvin and Marian Washington. ACACIA BRIDGE CLUB The club was entertained at the home of Mrs. Rena Sayles, 2031 Thirteenth Street, Northwest Members present were Miss Kerena Bransom, Mrs. Mable Butler, Mrs. Ruth Cook, Mrs. Anna Gordon, Mrs. Willie Mayes, Mrs. Ophelia Nelson, Miss Corinne Pumphrey, Mrs. Rena Sayles, Mrs Naomi Mae Sturges, Mrs. Alice Robinson, Mrs. Bessie Tillman, Mrs. Mae Walker, Miss Edna White. Mrs. May Hamm was guest. Prizes were awarded as follows: Edna White, first; Bessie Tillman, second, and Willie Mayes, consolation prize. THE DUKES Mr. Hales presided at the weekly meeting of the club held at 1621 O Street, Northwest, Friday, at which time invitations were issued out for the club's formal. Members present included Howard Johnson, James Craven, Milton Baddy, Emanuel Logan, Thomas Matthews, Thomas Visw, John Miller, Elmer Berry, and Roland Veney. THE MODERNETTS The members of the Modernetta Club met last week at the residence of Miss Odarious Malloy, 1916 Tenth Street, Northwest. A delightful repast was served. Members present were Misses Hazel Brown, Junitaan Janges, and Odarious Malloy. The next meeting will be held at the residence of Miss Estelle Thomas. BROOKLAND CONVENTION CLUB The club held its last meeting of the year, Monday, at 141 Degrees Street, Northwest, with Mrs. Lillian Thomas as hostess. Members present were Messrs. John Underwood, John Davis, Lonny Danley and Robert Dyson; Misses Marie Fenwick, Mabel Brown, Victoria Danley, Emma Jones and Lillian Thomas. Mrs. Fannie Pollard and Agnes Jones are still confined to their homes. BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL TY will Feature day Program strong High School on December 27 at 3 p.m. On December 24, the Arts and Crafts class will have a social and supper. On December 27 the Carry-On Club will entertain at a supper dance; January 31 the Athletic Club will have its New Year party. December 25 at 5:30 a.m. the Log Fire Carols and Santa Claus visit. The Hostess Club will be in charge. January 1 from 7 to 10 p.m. Phyllis Whaettle's doors will be wide open for the New Year's reception. Mrs. Julia West Hamilton will head the receiving line; Vice President Mrs. Annie E. Cromwell, and all member of the Board of Directors with the staff members will greet visitors. A program of music and refreshments will complete the entertainment. The club was entertained by Miss Agnes Meyers, 1305 Corcoran Street, Northwest. Members present were Jessie Fletcher, Agnes Meyers, Mabel Miller, Annie Willis, Irene Smith, Mary Ford, Nolie Savory, Marie Matthews and Lillian Means. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Mabel Miller, first; Mrs. Lillian Means, second, and Mrs. Nolie Savory, third. The Skylook Social Club gave a pre-Christmas dance, at the residence of Richard Williams, 1248 Girard Street, Northwest. The dance was a gay affair. The members of the club are as follows: John Mahoney, Elmer Mahoney, Maurice Smallwood, Milton Lucas, Alexander Smith, Bernard Smith, Richard Williams, George Mahoney, Harry Bradford, Milton Smith, George McCann. Guests were Juanita Kilby, Caroline Mapp, Catherine Barnaby, Gertrude Crocett, Janey Crocett, Eftha Thomas, Audrey Boone, Florence Hill, Ruth Rollison, Helen Boone, Elsie Thurston, Dorothy Waters, Madeline Williams, Ozela Barnaby, Thomas Fulton, Alireth Thomas, Shelton Kibly, Earlyhugh Bradford, George Haggins, Walter Lyles, and Leroy Smith. The club was entertained Friday by Mrs. Cora Cooper, 2900 Dumbarton Avenue, Northeast. Card prizes were won by Mrs. Nettie Fisher, Mrs. Cara Hawkins, Gladys Johnson, Beatrice Fitzhugh, Mrs. Josephine Smith, Anna Cook and Mrs. Kathryn Neal. Other members present were Hattie Morgan, Maybele Amber, Eva Mitchell, Gertrude Johnson, Mattie Smith Lillian Cushenberry, Mary Yates, Malinda Eczell, Jannie Bryant, Ethel Bolden and Mrs. Coopier. Plans for a complimentary formal dance were completed at the last meeting of the club. The dance will be held Thursday at the Lincoln Colonnade. Members of the club are David Hales, Howard Johnson, John Miller, Thomas Matthews, Thomas View, Roland Vency, Emanuel Logan, Milton Baddy, James McCaul and Elmer Berry The club held its weekly meeting at 1507 Columbia Street, Northwest Miss Artie Henderson was hostess. Two members were absent, Miss Mabel Washington and Mrs Beatrice Liggons. Members present were Miss Eleanor Christian, Mrs Mary Lcev, Miss Evelyn Henderson and Mrs. Charlotte Pendegast. Guest was Frank Gordon. The club held its regular meeting at the chairman's residence, Mrs. Bessie Webster, 1321 V Street Northwest. Members present were Mrs. Alvira Adams, Mrs. Ella Barnes, Mrs. Maggie Tyree, Mrs. Annie Broadnicks, Mrs. Virginia Duffin, Mrs. Virginia Cunningham, Mrs. Annie Long, Mrs. Effie Frye, Mrs. Webster, Miss Frances Millenger, Mrs. Lattie Mosely, and Mrs. Marie Deckett. MERRYNETTES WHIST CLUB The club was entertained Friday by Mrs. Mary Perry, 634 Pickford Place, Northeast. Plans were made for a dance. Members present were Mesdames Emma Contee, Mary Perry Anna Cernish, Ethel Sumner, Irma Walker, Hattie Randolph, Mary Jackson, Anna Taylor, and Mias Celestine Lott. Klub Neonte held its regular semi-monthly meeting at the residence of Mrs. Adlena Howard, 719 Irving Street, Northwest. Bridge was the feature of the evening. First and second prizes were won by Jessie Conway and Viola Sallivan, respectively. Mrs. Saddie Reed, sister of the RAMONA BRIDGE CLUB SKYLOCK SOCIAL CLUB WEST END SOCIAL CLUB DUKES STARDUST HARLEM GIRLS CLUB KLUR NEONTE hostess, was guest. Members of the club are Mesdames Jessie Conway, Mattie Marshall, Adluna Howard, Ruth Rhea, Blondel Moten, Willie Collins, Ruth Carroll, Viola Sullivan and Juanita Conway. DOUBLE SIX CLUB The newly organized Double Six Club met at the residence of Mr. and Mrs Henry Sweepey, 309 T Street, Northwest, Monday. The following officers have been elected: George Cooper, president: Earl Grant, vice-president; Mrs. L. C. Goode, secretary; Henry Sweeney, assistant secretary; Jessie Sheffield, treasurer; Alvan Wilson, business manager; Mrs L. M. Grant news editor. HEADLINERS The club held its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Clarissa Johnson, of Brentwood, Md. New members accepted was Miss Dorothea Hawkins. Prizes were won by Mrs. Alva Bellows, Misses Blanche Baker and Dorothea Hawkins. Those present were Mesdames Phoebe Nelson, Alberta Mackin, Mary Baker, Alva Bellows, Clarissa Johnson, Helena Kirkland and Misses Blanche Baker. Dorothea Hawkins PIGEON CLUB The E.W.C. Pigeon Club will have its final meeting of the year Wednesday, December 18. All new members are welcome. Meetings for 1936 will be the first and third Wednesday of each month at 731 Eighteenth Street, Northeast, George Jackson is president. LE MARQUINS CLUB The club met at the home of Helen Williams, 2616 Georgia Avenue, Northwest, last week. Card prizes were won by Mrs. Horad, first guest; Mrs. Ethel Shipley, first club; Lessie Ross, second; Mary Evans, third, and Bertha Wyley, consolation. LA GARDENIA SOCIAL CLUB Mrs. Georgia Mason, 125 U Street, Northwest, was hostess to the club Monday. Members present were Mrs. Nettie Dodson, president; Mrs. Minnie Poulson, vice-president; Mrs. Iola Moore, financial secretary; Mrs. Dorothy Purdie, recording secretary; Mrs. Blanche Brown, treasurer; Miss Jennie Allen, chaplain, and Mrs. Mason JOLLY EIGHT CLUB The club met at the home of Charlotte Monroe, 1419 Columbia Street, Northwest. All members were present. WIZARD WHIST CLUB The club defeated the New Deal Club by a 376 to 290 score, last Wednesday. SWANEE SPORTS CLUB The meeting of the club was held at the residence of Mrs. Mary Carter, 17 E Street, Southwest. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Carter. Mrs. Miles, Mrs Scott and Mr. and Mrs. Norwood. BROWN BUDDIES SOCIAL CLUB Clifton Jackson entertained the club last Monday night at his residence, 1818 Eighteenth Street, Northwest. Plans were completed for a formal dance. MERRY MAIDS ART CLUB The club will give a pound party tonight (Friday) at 1757 S Street, Northwest. Proceeds from the affair will aid in the purchase of baskets for the needy. Mrs. Edith Lee is president and Miss Florence Jackson, secretary JEWEL WHIST CLUB The Jewel Whist Club met this week at the home of Miss Lavania Plummer, 1011 Irving Street, Northwest. The club plans a social and dance during the month of February. Mrs. Bertha Stewart is president of the club. COCKTAIL PARTY GIVEN COCKTAIL PARTY GIVEN Mr. and Mrs. G. Griffith and Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Alexandria entertained friends at their home, 414 Twenty-third, Street, Northeast, Sunday, with a cocktail party. The guests of honor were Mrs. Freddie Washington Brown (Phoola) and her husband, Lawrence Brown. Other guests present were Mr. and Mrs. Charley Jones, Harold Jordan, Miss Pauline Jones, William Jones, Mrs. Gladys Hardwick and O. Connie. Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to gour away.—Samuel Johnson. CHRISTMAS 1935 Protect Your Home from Tuberculosis BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL Youthful Artists Heard In Church Recital The second in the series of miniature concerts for the Autumn-Winter of 1935-36 sponsored by the music committee of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, was held in the Sunday School auditorium of Third Baptist Church, Sunday evening. These miniature concerts are presented in connection with the regular Young People's C.E. meetings of Third Baptist Church. The young artists who were heard on Sunday's program included: Mary Frances Brown, dramatic reader; Louise Long, soloist, accompanied by Mazetta Long, pianist; Fannie Jackson and Bertha Dandridge in a duet for soprano and alto voices; Carol Johnson, tenor soloist; Frances Mines and Miss Hemby in a duet and the Christian Endeavor Chorus under the direction of Petrenella Holston; Dorothy Robinson Hood, pianist. The young artists were well received. FATHER DIVINE'S FOLLOWERS CROWD HARLEM SCHOOLS NEW YORK, (By ANP)—Harmen evening schools are at present taxed to capacity with 1,600 followers of Father Divine., ranging in ages from 18 to 70, who are increasing their educational needs at the request of the cult leader. Approximately 150 a week are being added to existing enrollments. So serious has the overcrowding become that school officials last week visited classrooms to observe and remedy conditions. According to Father Divine's publication, "The Spoken Word," the overcrowding is not due to a lack of space but to an inadequate teaching staff. It is no secret that the prophet's followers are preparing for literacy tests. They went to school in large numbers last year, but nothing at all comparable with the numbers since September. The entire flock is fitting itself to vote and under "kingdom" names in line with the decision of the apelate division of state courts allowing these assumed names to stand for registration. Many of the cut leader's followers had practically no schooling prior to this fall. In one class the instructor asked a grown student to give the sum of one and one. After scratching his head he finally answered "2." But the sum of 2 and 2 stumped him. He told the teacher, "where I come from they didn't get that far yet." Still another was asked if she intended to go to school next day. "Of course," she replied. "Father Divine expects us to be here and what he expects must be." "Whatever criticism there may be of Father Divine," said one school official, "he had made them go to school. And he has encouraged them to dress cleanly and neatly, to be respectful, quiet and orderly." Approximately 8,000 adults are registered in the evening classes. Many have dropped out of school because of crowded conditions, but none of Father Divine's followers, who increase week to week. North Carolina Loses Most Picturesque Character JONESEORO, N. C. (By ANP) —Death removed one of the most pictureque characters of this section here Tuesday, when Allan McLean succumbed to a heart attack at his home in "Hell's Half Acre." The body of the aged man was found by neighbors who failing to see him about the premises as usual, broke into the house to investigate. His German Police dog was standing guard and for almost an hour, prevented anyone from entering the room. McLean was born before the Civil War, but, no one was certain as to his age. He was a plasterer by trade and accumulated much property in the section of the town where he lived. His hobby was cogs and cows and in French peasant-fashioned housed the cows in a room adjoining that in which he slept. Following funeral services held from the family domicile, he was laid to rest in the front yard of the home plot, besides the grave of his wife, Mrs. Bess McLean, who lied four years ago. According to friends, one of his oft-expressed wishes was that his dogs and cows be given a good home and that a suitable tomb-stone be placed over his grave. Howard Plavers Present "Saturday's Children" Opening their dramatic season, the Howard Players, dramatic organization at Howard University, presented Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children" at the Garnet-Patterson Auditorium, Saturday night. The comedy in three acts was directed by Sterling A. Brown. Members of the cast included James Thompson Ada Fisher Juanita Smacum, Thelma Dale, Leonard S. Hays, Marion Martin, John Elliott and James Washington MRS. WHIPPS IS FOUND IN APARTMENT Wife of Another Man Located in Closet by Policemen Arrested December 9 and booked on a statutory charge on the complaint of Fred J. Whipps, 1128 Columbia Road, Dr. Walter Washington, prominent dentist, 1720 Willard Street, Northwest, was later released on $300 bond. Mrs. Louise Whipps, 1338 V Street, Northwest; estrangel wife of Whipps; whom hor husband charged with living with the dentist, was also arrested by Third Precinct officers; when they surprised her with Dr. Washington in the latter's Willard Street apartment, clad in her night gown. Mrs. Whipps was also released on $300 bond. Case Nolle Prossed When the case was called up in the Police Court last Wednesday, the District Attorney's office reported that the case had been nolle pressed. The arrest of Dr. Washington and Mrs. Whipps came about after the woman's husband had engaged the services of Lee Parmnell and James Baskins, private investigators, to trap his wife in the room with Dr. Washington. Having found the two together in the dentist's apartment, Pannell and Whipps went to the District Attorney's office for a warrant. According to Whipps, they told that if they would break open the door and catch the pair together, a warrant would be issued for adultery, providing Whipps agreed to pay for the damage done. Went to Apartment In a statement to the Tribune Wednesday afternoon. Whipps said that Dr. Washington entered his apartment on December 8, about 7:30 at night, accompanied by Mrs. Whipps. He said he heard Dr. Washington ask Mrs. Whipps if he could spend the night with her to which she allegedly replied: "No, darling. I'll speed tomorrow night with you." The next night, according to Whipps, he, in company with his two investigators, and Louis Dixon returned to the scene of the Washington home. About midnight, according to Whipps, Dr. Washington and Mrs. Whipps drove up in the dentist's car and entered Dr. Washington's apartment. When the lights went out, Whipps told the Tribune, he knocked on the door, and said that he wa a telegraph messenger. When the dentist cracked the door, Whipps said, he (Whipps) together with Pannell, Dixon and Baskins, rushed in, followed by two officers from the Third Precinct. Carried to Precinct Whipps told the Tribune that Dr. Washington was clad in najamas and a bathrobe, and that Mrs. Whipps' clothes were laying in a nearby chair. The officers began to search for Mrs. Whipps, and found her in a husband said. The wife came out closet, undressed, the estranged according to Whipps, and began attacking him. Dr. Washington and Mrs. Whipps were then taken to the Third Precinct, and charged with adultery. FIRST MEMBER OF ILLINOIS CHURCH DIES IN D. C. Mrs. Eliza Murphy Was Also One of the Founders of Twelfth Street Mrs. Eliza Grindell Murphy, 1720 Ninth Street, Northwest, died Sunday Mrs. Murphy was a member of the Twelfth Street Christian persons to begin the work of espersons to begin the work f establishing that church in Washington, D. C. She first became a member of the Christian Church in Normal, Illinois, more than fifty years ago. She was the oldest member of the local congregation and devoted much time and interest to the missionary work of the church. She was also a member of Crypusus Attuck Society, and The Ladies Friendship Society. She was buried from the Twelfth Street Christian Church, last Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. J. F. Whitfield delivered the eulogy. She is survived by four children, twenty-two grand children and six great grandchildren BREAK GROUND FOR NEW BUILDINGS THIS WEEK JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Breaking ground for the new Mechanic Arts Building and the new Boys' Dormitory on the campus of Lincoln University here is scheduled for the latter part of next week. Students, faculty and administrative officials of the college have taken official cognizance of the event as an important step in the development of the institution. BRUCE STEWART REELECTED HEAD OF CIVIC GROUP Capital View Association Plans Christmas Carol Sing December 22 By T. JACKSON ARMSTEAD The Capital View Citizens' Association met at the Capital View Baptist Church on Monday evening, December 16. The main business of the evening was the report of the secretary and treasurer and the election of officers. The present officers were reelected for the ensuing year, namely: president, Bruce Stewart; vice president, Mrs. Emma Van Ruyen; corresponding secretary, O. W. McDonald; financial secretary, W. Auson Louge; treasurer, Mrs. Mary Thomas and chaplain, the Rev. John Franklin. The final rehearsal for the Community carol sing will be held on December 22, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gardner. All persons who are planning to take part in the singing are urged to be present. Plans are to be made with a view to forming the carol singing group into a permanent choral society under the direction of William Slater. The American Federation of Government Employees, Lodge 41, Group 2 of the United States Public Health Service, held its annual banquet at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William Warner, 905 N Street Northwest. Edward Hamler, John Wilkinson and Bruce Stewart were n charge of the arrangements. Guess, present were Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hamler, Mr and Mrs. Frank Bernavl, Frank Boggins, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Syphax, Mr. and Mrs. William Ricks, James Hackney, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Mundy, Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkerson, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Stewart, George Johnson, Gus Wills, Miss Francis Tyler, Miss Francis Shave, Miss Francis Powell, Lieutenant Charles Young, Joseph Randolph, Mr. and Mrs. G Holmes, Mrs Elise Williams, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ayes, Carroll Felton and F. Derricotte. Suggests Newro Newspapers and Books as Gift A plea for colored Americans to buy books by colored authors and subscribe for newspapers and magazines published by Negroes, was made this week by Mrs. Dovothy B. Porter, librarian-in-charge of the Moorland Foundation of books about Negroes, at the Howard University Library. Answering hundreds of questions, reading the latest books, hunting down fugitive facts, supervising the clipping of newspapers, and many other duties, Mrs. Porter told the Associated Negro Press that, despite the increased production of works of merit on Negro life, there are untold fields that are yet untouched San Antonio Mayor, Other Officials Join N.A.A.C.P. SAN ANTONIO, Tex (ANP) — Mayor C. K. Irvin, County Judge Frost Woodhill, District Clerk Hart McCormack and President R. S. Meneefee of the San Antonio school board were among outstanding white citizens who joined the N.A.A.C.P. Sunday afternoon, during the record-breaking mass meeting held at Second Baptist Church, at which William Dickens, field representative, and Roscoe Dunjee, Oklahoma editor, were the principal speakers. Pickens told the mixed audience that human justice is the bedrock for the solution of all inter-racial problems, and that the interests of both groups are not antagonistic, but one. Deneje told of the work of the association in his home state. In replying to Pickens' talk, Mayor Irvin spoke of the noted author and lecturer as being "a leader — not of the Negro people, but of all the people" and that Pickens "had spoken what every one knew is the truth." Vocational Education Stressed in Program ATLANTA, Ga.—After adopting a comprehensive program for the furtherance of vocational education and guidance in every type of school and college in which Negroes are enrolled as well as in the commercial and industrial fields in which they may have a part, the first national conference ever to be held on this phase of Negro education adjourned at Atlanta University Saturday morning. The conference, conducted under the direction of the National Occupational Conference, of which Dr. Franklin J. Keller, of New York City, is the director, was attended during the week by more than 200 educators, personnel workers in industry, employers of labor, and government officials. TO STUDY ENGINEERING TUSKEGEE, Ala.—Richard P. Collins has been granted a year's leave of absence by Tuskegee Institute for study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, on a scholarship offered by the General Education Board, and will pursue studies in engineering and building construction. HE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1935 To Observe Silver Anniversary Mary and William Judge William C. and Mrs. Jennie Robinson Hueston who will celebrate their silver anniversary Sunday at their home, 744 Park Road, Northwest. Only relatives and close friends of the couple will be present, Judge and Mrs. Hueston were married in Washington on December 22, 1910 by the late Bishop Hurst. Judge Hueston is commissioner of education of the Elks and is former judge of the Municipal Court, Gaw, Ind, and was solicitor in the U.S. Postoffice. "The Lifted Cross" Well Received by Audience By CLARENCE REED By CLARENCE REED One of the season's best dramatic plays made its bow before an appreciative audience in the auditorium of the Masonic Temple Sunday evening The drama, "The Lifted Cross" was presented in two acts and seven scenes. It is the story that opens at the dawn of the reign of Constantine and the twilight of the long years of the persecution of the Christians by the Roman Government at the end of the fourth Century. "The Lifted Cross" is a beautiful, romantic story of a woman of Christian faith who loved a man who was dirty bound to take her life. How the man (an ambitious young officer in the Roman army) is converted and the establishment of the reign of Constantine in the Roman Empire was beautiful enacted by the players in this drama. Players Well Received All of the players were given a generous portion of well earned E.W. FREEMAN REELECTED HEAD OF SUNDAY SCHOOL Mrs. Ellen Pinchum Reions as Treasurer At Third Baptist Church The annual election of the Sun- day School, teachers board of Third Baptist Church were held in the main auditorium of the church, Tuesday evening. The elections were presided over by the Rev. George Oliver Bullock who was unanimously elected chairman pro-temple. As a result of the elections Elphonzo W. Freeman was elected superintendent of Third Baptist Sunday School. This is the third consecutive time this honor has been bestowed upon Mr. Freeman. Mr. Freeman is chairman of the Board of Trustees of Third Baptist Church. He is superintendent of the Registration and Transportation Committee of the Golden Rule Christian Endeavor Union and is also chairman of the Committee on Information of the Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor of Third Baptist Church. The only change in the cabinet of Third Baptist Sunday School Teachers Board, was the restatement of Mrs. Ellen Pinchum, who has been treasurer of Third Baptist Sunday School Teachers Board for the past nine years. Mrs. Rebecca J. Gray, chairman of the Sunday School Missionary Committee and a former member of the D.C. Public Schools Board was elected to succeed Mrs. Pinchum. Mrs. Gray is the wife of Augustus Grav, local attorney. Other Elected Officers The complete roster of the officers is as follows: Elphonzo W. Preeman, superintendent; Mrs. Muriel Milton Alexander, first assistant superintendent; James E. Brown, second assistant superintendent; Mrs Rebecca J. Gray, treasurer; Mrs Fannie Morris Reed, financial secretary; Clarence Reed, recording secretary; James H. Coleman, chorister; Mrs Irene Ewell, pianist; Miss Bennetta Bullock, assistant pianist; Miss Porta Bullock, enrollment clerk; Mrs. Mittie Garland, chairman of sick committee; Mrs. R. J. Gray, missionary committee chairman; Mrs. Mary Frances Brown, entertainment committee chairman; Mrs. Helen M. Thomas, associate superintendent of beginners department; Mrs. M. Garland, supervisor of junior department; Mrs. M. F. Brown, supervisor of primary department; Mrs. A Rober- applause during the performance. Emma Brasel as Athenis, Maud Elsberry as Claudia; Raymond Colbert as Ganus; Elvin Sheppard as Marcus, and Irene Broadnick as Bernice, easily took high honors in the play. However, the entire cast was well balanced and the drama well staged. The Cast Included in the cast were such well known players as; Albert Jackson, Emma Brasel, Maude Elsberry, Raymond Colbert, William Brooks, Alvin Sheppard, Harry Thompson, Irene Broadnic, Louisa Becks, Royal Bailey, Cornelius Bailey, Edward Sewell, Ethel Pope, Eva Robinson, Helen Gaskins, Maretia Sewell, Ora Jenkins, Efie Thompson, Lillian Sheffield Ethel Bolden, M. P. Morgan, Martha Bailey and M. Jenkins. The Masonic Band under the direction of Prof. Froff, rendered a group of famous marches and symphonic excerpts during the scenes. ta Pettross Smith, supervisor of intermediate department; Mrs. K. Price, supervisor of advance department; Mrs Rebecca S. Bullock, supervisor of teachers training; Boynton C. Dodson, supervisor Men's Bible department; Rev. George Oliver Bullock, supervisor of adult Bible class; Mrs. Bessie Rebecca Tay尔, supervisor of Girls' Usher Board; William H. Smith, Jr., supervisor of Boys Usher Board. Ethiopian Archbishop to Be Speaker at Mt. Carmel Christmas services will be as follows at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church: 11 a.m. — Sermon, Archbishop Challoughelezilicez, of the Reformed Cootie Church of Ethiopia Subject: "The Providence of God." 6:30 p.m. — Special Christmas service by the B. Y. P. U. 8 p.m. — Senior choir — Christmas Cantata. "The Bright and Morning Star." December 24 — 11 a.m., Distributing baskets to the needy. 7:30 p.m. — Christmas tree exercises, by the Sunday School, including a play, "Christmas Eve and All Is Well," assisted by Junior Choir. December 25 — 5 to 7 a.m. — Early Christmas message by the pastor. 11 a.m. — Union Christmas services, Mt. Carmel and Second Baptist Churches, Sermon by Dr. J. L. S. Holloman. Hale Woodruff Exhibits At Atlanta University ATLANTA, Ga.—For the first time in two years, Hale Woodruff, well-known American painter and instructor in art in the Atlanta University system, has arranged an exhibition of his own paintings, and these will be on display at the Atlanta University Library exhibition room daily from 3 to 5 o'clock each afternoon and on Sundays from 4 to 6 o'clock, until Monday. December 23. Union Revival In Anacostia Churches At a meeting of the Anacostia Evangelistic Committee, held in the Bethlehem Baptist Church, last week, with the Rev. J. T. McClennon, chairman, arrangements were made for the opening of a union revival meeting to continue from January 1 to January 24. The first week the meetings will be held in the St. John C. M. E. Church; the second week in Campbell, and the third week in Bethlehem Baptist Church. The other congregations, included in this union are Matthews Memorial and Macedonia Baptist. The pastors f the several churches will preach and their choirs will form a union choir. A Chicago man is inventing a small telephone system in order that those living in flivvers can talk to each other. RELIGIOUS BODY WILL CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY These three events terminating with the annual C.E. Night will mark the closing of the eleventh anniversary celebration of the local Golden Rule Christian Endeavor Union which was founded in 1925. James A. Brown, president of the union, has been at the head of the local union for eight of the eleven years of its existence. 2.500 Young People The celebration of the fifty-fifth anniversary of Christian Endeavor and the eleventh anniversary of the local Golden Rule C. E. Union will be one of the outstanding church cents of the New Year. Eighteen churches and 2,500 localed a while in silence. At 1 a.m. young people are expected to have a part in the eleventh anniversary celebration of the Golden Rule C.E. Union. The churches are: Miles Memorial, C.M.E., Rev. I. Q Brown, pastor; Zion Bautist, Church, Alexandria, Va.; First (Georgetown) Baptist, Rev. M. N. Newsome, pastor; Galbraith A.M.E. Zion, Rev. Daniel C Pope, pastor; Metropolitan A.M.E., Rev. W. H. Thomas, pastor; Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion: New Bethel Baptist, Rev. W. D. Jarvis, pastor; Lincoln Temple Congregational, Rev. R. W Brooks, pastor; Shiloh Baptist, Rev. Earl L, Harrison, pastor; Third Baptist, Rev George Oliver Bullock, pastor; Union Wesley, Rev F. W. Alstork, pastor; Nineteenth Street Baptist, Rev Walter Brooks, pastor; Twelfth Street Christian, Rev J. F Whitfield, pastor; Zion (Southwest) Baptist, Rev J. M. Ellison, pastor; St. Paul A.M.E., Rev. George O. Wing, pastor; Saint Paul Baptist (Bladensburg Road); John Wesley Rev W. O. Carrington, pastor, and Plymouth Congregationalist The persons in charge of the celebration are: Miss Amelia R. Harris, Mrs. Eva Gibson, Miss Elsie Gray, A. S. Rogers, Cornelia Brogden, Mrs. Mary Frances Brown, James Brown and Frederick Ball. Cardozo Students In Yule Carol Service Pupils of Cardozo High School were heard in their second annual Christmas Carol service Tuesday evening, December 17, in the school auditorium. The groups who participated included the Cardozo High School Orchestra, directed by Felix Weir; the Girls' Chorus, in charge of Mrs. R. W. Sample, and the public speaking classes trained by Mrs. L. J. Lovett. The program follows: 1. Processional — O Come All Ye Faithful ... Girls' Chorus. 2. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear ... Audience. 5. The Sheperds ..... Girl's Chorus. 6. O Little Town of Bethlehem... Audience. 7. At the Cradle—First Sopranos and Altos—Girl's Chorus. 8. O Holy Night—Mellophone Solo..... Ishmael Crawford. 9. Bethlehem—First and Second Sopranos..... Girl's Chorus. 10. Joy to the World..... Audience. 11. Old French Carols— (a) Angels 'Oer the Fields, (b) Sleep, Little Dove— Girl's Chorus. 12. Silent Night..... Audience. 13. Necessiona!—Hark! the Herald Angels Sing—Girl's Chorus. Uplift Temple in Bowie, Maryland. Reorganizing Through the efforts of Louise M. Brown, District Deputy of Uplift Temple, No. 606, of Elks, and Bertha B. King, Organizing Deputy of the State of Maryland plans have been perfected for the reorganization of the Uplift Temple, one of the best temples in Maryland. Mesdames Brown and King Motored to Bowie, Md., for a conference last Thursday. The reorganization meeting is scheduled for Thursday (December 19). It is doggone easy for the government to raise commodity prices, and it is doggone hard for the people to raise the price to pay for them. Christimas Services At Lincoln Temple Church Christmas services will be held at the Lincoln Congregational Temple, Sunday morning. The Rev. R. W. Brooks will speak from the subject, "The Shut Out Christ." Special Christmas music will be rendered by the vested chorus choir. The Men's Brotherhood will assemble at 10 a.m. After brief devotional exercises, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, head of the department of Political Science, Howard University, will discuss, "A National Negro Congress." At 6 o'clock in the evening, James Ring, Administrative Assistant of the Alley Dwelling Authority, formerly, the secretary of the Senate District Committee, will be presented at a union meeting of the Sunday Evening Vespers, and the Young Peoples' Club, who will show slides of Washington's Alleys, and discuss the program of their clearance. Christmas morning, from 7 to 8 o'clock, special Christmas services will be held. There will be the singing of carols by the choir, and a special Christmas message by the pastor. His subject will be, "The Wise Men Seeking Jesus." Marian Anderson, Singer Arrives in New York NEW YORK CITY. — Marian Anderson, internationally famous contralto, who has recently completed a successful concert tour of European countries arrived in New York, Monday. Terrell Community Center A full program of activities for the week are taking place at the Terrell Community Center Club for Boys, by the boys and teachers for parents and patrons. The boys' cabinet is planning to present gifts to needy children. Under the direction of the teacher-sponsor plan a program of songs, recitations and a play is schedule 1 for Friday night. Under the direction of George H. Jones; the athletic teams in the different age groups have conducted a series of elimination tournaments in basketball; free throw; stumbling; wrestling and boxing. The winners are as follows: Basketball Free Throw: Senior Boys — John Henderson; William Edmonds and Robert White. Junior Boys — Harry Humphries; Ernest Akers; Theodore Miller and Calyx. Scott. Tumbling: Junior Boys—Ernest Akers and Theodore Miller. Wrestling: 135-lb class — Jack Davis: 85-lb class — Irving Wood; 75-lb class — Sherman Griffin; 65-lb class — Paul Humphries. Boxing: 135-lb class — Jack Davis: 110-lb class — Harry Humphries: 85-lb class — Charles Jackson; 65-lb class—Paul Loty. Phyllis Wheatie Y.W.CA. The Christmas program for the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. Ninth and Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest is as follows: December 22 — Christmas Vespers, 4 p.m. Decembrer 23. — Christmas party for underprivileged children December 24 — Social and supper; arts and crafts class; December 25. — Log fire carols and visit from Santa Claus, 5:30 a.m., Hostess Club. December 26 — Christmas cheer trips: a. to Laurel Training School; b. Stoddard Baptist Home; c. St Anna's Home, Girls Reserves. December 22 — "Living Madonnas," 6 p.m. December 26-27 — Girl Reserve Club parties. December 27 — Play: "Robin Hood," Children's Theatre, Armstrong High School, 3 p.m. December 27 — Supper dance, Carry-On Club. December 31 — New Year party, Athletic Club. January 1 — Phillis Wheatley Y. M. C. A., at home, 7 to 10 p.m. Federal Program Is Outlined at Conefrence ATLANTA, Ga. — Presenting a comprehensive picture of the federal government's many-sided efforts to establish economic security, particularly for the 12,000,00 Negroes of this country, six men and women, prominently associated with the present administration, recently, addressed the Conference on Vocational Guidance and Education for Negroes, which is meeting at Atlanta University. The speakers of the morning session included Dr. Mary H. S. Hayes, director of guidance and placement of the National Youth Administration; Lieutenant Lawrence A. Oxley, chief of division Negro Labor, U. S. Department of Labor; Dr. Charles S. Johnson, economic advisor, National Recovery Administration and director of the department of sociology, Fisk University; Henry A. Hunt, assistant to the Governor, Farm Credit Administration, and Alfred E. Smith, assistant in the Works Progress Administration, President William S. Nelson of Shaw University served as chairman. Physical culture expert says he can make a new man of a person in seven days. But nothing is said of a person's debts. I am a peace man. I haven't got any use for wars and there is no more humor in 'em than there is reason for 'em. Get your war news from Gibbons and your Geisha Girl news from Rogers. THIRTLEN Sigma Fraternity President A. JESSE W. LEWIS, National President of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, which holds its Conclave in Atlanta December 27-30 GOOSE FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS DINNER Probably you served turkey on Thanksgiving, for variety's sake let's serve goose for Christmas dinner. Here is the menu. Chilled cranberry juice or tomato juice—Roast goose with fruit stuffing, brown or giblet gravy, celery, plain or stuffed, olives, jellied Christmas pudding with custard sauce or individual mince tarts with or without a topping of vanilla ice cream, demitasse, mints. Choose a goose by its bill and feet. The bill should be pliable and yellow...the feet yellow and fat. A goose four months old is known as a "green goose" and is unusually served unstuffed. If the goose is older stuff it with a good fruit or sage and onion stuffing. Allow twenty-five minutes to the pound and cook uncovered in a roaster having the oven very hot for the first fifteen minutes. Reduce the heat for the remaining time. Baste regularly and often with some of the fat in the pan. The giblets are large and may be cooked separately until tender, then chopped and used in giblet gravy. (Or add a round steak to the giblets and serve as a delicious meat pie for the following day.) Apple and Raisin Stuffing Six large cooking apples, one half cup water; one and one half cups soft bread crumbs, one and one half cups seedless raisins, one tablespoon melted butter, one teaspoon salt, one third teaspoon pepper, one egg, beaten, and one teaspoon grated lemon rind. Pare and core and quarter apples, then cook with water just until tender. Or core and quarter without paring, then when tender rub through a sieve. Combine and blend with remaining ingredients and when cold use to stuff the goose. The stuffing is also excellent for roast duck. Sage and Onion Stuffing One-third cup butter, one large minced onion onion one half cup, one cup chopped celery, two tablespoons chopped parsley, six cups soft bread crumbs, one and one half teaspoons salt, one tablespoon powdered sage. Melt the butter and cook the onion in it gently until tender but not brown. Now, add remaining ingredients and continue cooking, stirring constantly, until brown, adding a little more butter if needed. Cool before using. REV. J. C. TURNER SPEAKS TO STUDENTS ON VISION GREENSBORO, N.C.—"Vision" was the subject of a most inspiring address by Dr. J. Clyde Turner, pastor of First Baptist Church, Greensboro, on Sunday, in addressing the students, faculty and friends of A. and T. College, at the regular Vesper service in the Dudley Memorial auditorium. The Choral Club, directed by Ethyl Wise, sang "Great Peace Have They" by Rogers-Deis; "Hail the Crown" by Brown and "Surely he has borne our Grief" by Handel. The biggest little eater in the world is a termite. He can eat a house. WASHINGTON TRIBUNE Published Tuesday and Friday of Each Week Subscription Rates (By Mail, Including Postage) National Edition 1 yr. $2.50 6 mos. 1.25 3 mos. .65 Capital Edition 1 yr. $2.50 6 mos. 1.25 3 mos. .65 Rates, Both Editions Combination Subscription 1 yr. $4.50 6 mos. 2.25 3 mos. 1.25 In Canada and Foreign Coun- tries, Single Edition 1 yr. $7.00 6 mos. 4.00 3 mos. 1.65 Entered as Second-Class Matter BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL G.P.O. GUARD ASSAULTS MUSICIAN Louis Minor, member of the Dixie Harmonies, well known local spiritual quartette inc. radio entertainers, was a victim of as unwarranted attack by a white guard at the Government Printing Office where he is employed, last week. The guard, Samuel Hill; who has been employed at the G. P. O. for four or five years was tried by Government Printing. Office officials and found guilty of the unwarranted attack and later transferred to another department, according to information given the Tribune Thursday. Attacked From Rear The attack took place Saturday morning when Mr. Minor, an employee of the Delivery Secton, reported for work. As is the custom of employees in the particular section, Mr. Minor attempted to enter the building by key or the gate door, where an guard, Mr. Hill, was stationed. Hill attempted to halt the entrance or Mr. Minor who protested and continued his walk to work. While Mr. Minor was talking with his back to the guard, the white man struck him with a piece of bone, according to the story told the Tribune. Transferred M. A. Flynn, white, guard at the front entrance of the Government Printing Office, told the Tribune Thursday that Hill had been transferred but declined to state the reason for a change positions. He said Hill had been employed there for four, or five years. Mr. Minor is well known in local musical circles. He is director of the Dixie Harmonies and an accomplished soloist. WOMEN'S PLACE IN WORLD AFFAIRS DICUSSED HERE Promient Educators Speak at the Alumnae Meeting The December meeting of the College Alumnae Club was he'd at the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. Saturday. The president, Mrs. Muriel Alexander, presided and after routine business, termed the meeting over to Miss C. Peters, chairman of the Program Committee, who outlined a very interesting and instructive program for the rest of the year. The chairman presented Dr. Edward Frazier, Eugene Holmes and Dr Ralph Bunche, of the faculty of Howard University, who conducted a panel discussion on Fascism. Theories and Cases underlying Fascism. Trade Unions and Fascism and Fascist Trends in Relation to Academic Freedom were discussed at length by the respective speakers. Questions and answers centering about woman's responsibility in connection with great movements, such as Fascism and Nazism and the Fascist implications to be found in important events of present day American life, were thought provoking and illuminating. The musical selection, a duct, was played by Misses Helm Venderhoop and Frances Harrod. Other Guests Other guests of the club were Misses Catherine Gribbey, Mabel Madden, and Cassandra Maxwell, Attorney Ambrose Shief and Dr. Eva Dykes. Hostesses for the evening were Misses Louise Madella and Mary Quander and Mrs. Carrie Daniel. Members present were G. A. Scott, H. A. Cunningham, R. C. Fallock, C. Corbin, B. H. Calling, F. L. Temp, O. M. Walker, E. P. Simmons, H. F. Jones, J. H. Sullivan, M. F. Quander, E. P. S. C. Carleton, A. P. Moore, W. F. Emerson, G. T. Paleyson. E. F. Browns, S. Eddelin, B. M. Simms, A. J. Pielou, C. V. Grissin, C. A. M. Warell, M. A. Madden, C. A. Brown, J. B. Shief, L. B. Dredon, G. D. Kowarnie, C. C. Daniels, C. M. Lee, M. McNeill, S. J. Daniels, M. H. Shimner, E. W. Payout and M. R. Reid. Bethune-Cookman College Accredited by Association DAYTONA BEACH, FL. — Bethune-Cookman College was officially notified last week that for the current school term it has been retained on the list of Junior Colleges accredited by the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for Southern States. Bethune-Cookman has been listed in Class "B" with the surname that the school qualifies in every respect for Class "A" rating except for its lack of endowment. ALFRED BROWN 21-year-old boxer who was found guilty of the murder of his stepfather, Manuel Silva Varela, a Spaniard, by a jury a Frederick, Md., Monday. The body of the man was found on a road partly burned. MD. TORCH MURDERER IS GUILTY Alfred Brown Convicted by Jury After 40 Minutes of Deliberation FREDERICK, Md. — A Circuit Court jury, which deliberated only 40 minutes, Tuesday, convicted Alfred Brown, 21-year-old boxer, of slaying Manuel Silva Varela, and partially burning the body. Brown was held in the county jail here awaiting sentence. The first-degree murder verdict makes sentence of death or life imprisonment mandatory. The taking of testimony continued until late Monday right and the jury did not receive the case until about midnight. Bady Durned Varela, a retired ship's carpenter, of Doubs was slain November 9, during a struggle in his home. Police said his body had been covered with gasoline, placed first up a chimney and set afire. Later the partially burned corpse was found on a roadside in Montgomery County. The investigation placed in evidence Brown alleged confession, in which he described Varela, a Spaniard, as a "bad man." "He came over with a first iron and I dodged the blow," the confession stated. "I stuck an ice pick in his chest." Sister Indicated Easter Included Brown and his sister, Blanche Smith, 18, were indicted separately for the slaving Chief Judge, Hammond Arthur and Associate Judge, Arthur D. Willard and Charles W. Wood- ward, compiling the full body of the sixth judicial circuit, heard the case. Brown told police that his sten- father had accused William Brown, a friend of the accused with hav- ing stolen Silva's clothes. Silva then accused someone of owing his desk and taking a paper show- ing he owned the 1927 Packard automobile kept on the farm. Brown was then accused of putting glass in Silva's food. Fight Started Brown said, on the night of the murder he was fixing the stove, Silva was pressing a shirt. Siddenly, he ran at his son with the heated flat iron. Brown said, and then pulled a dagger from his pocket. The danger was held in his right hand and he grabbed an ice pick with his left, according to Brown. Brown then grabbed an iron bar nearby, and the ice pick and grabbed the pick in Silva's chest. He then proceeded in his attempt to burn the body. NEW TRAFFIC ACT CONVICTS MAN 25-Year-Old Colored Man Held in Negligent Homicide Act The first conviction under the new negligent homicide act was recorded in Police Court. Wednesday, an jury returned a verdict of guilty against Gordon Trollinger, 25, 1615 Tweedah Street, Northwest. Trollinger, it was testified, struck Adam Abraham, 1014 E Street, on October 12, at Vermont Avenue and R Street. Abraham Cd October 16 in Freedmen's Hospital. It was testified that Trollinger was driving at approximately 50 miles per hour when he struck the pedestrian and knocked him 75 feet. The car, it was claimed, skidded 90 feet. A number of other cases in which D. Clarke were held by the coroner's jury on new can homicide charges are pending trial. Trollinger will be sentenced later. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1935 GIRL SLAYER, 15, CLEARED OF MURDER Youngest Person Ever To Face Homicide Charge In District Acquitted --- The youngest person ever to be tried in the District Supreme Court on a murder charge is Lucy Simms, 15, charged with the fatal shooting of Naomi Johnson, the 19,910 Fourth Street, Northwest, las' July 7, was exonerated by a trial jury in the District Supreme Court Thursday. Through her attorney, Octave Bigoness, white, the Simms girl girl put up a plea of self defense. Argued Over Man Miss Johnson was shot to death following a difference between her and Lucy, presumably over one Joseph Jackson, said to be Miss Johnson's boy friend. The shooting took place on the street in front of 104 K Street, Northwest. The plea from Miss Johnson that her life be spared was stifled by the report of the gun, which followed Jackson's alleged command to "shoot her." Immediately after the shooting, the pain fled and were the subject of a wide search conducted by police for several days. HOUSING PROBLEM IS DISUSSED BY SOCIAL WORKERS Major Campbell Johnson Emplains Langston Terrace Project "Housing Among Negroes of the District of Columbia" was the subject of a second of a series of lectures in the study of the Negro family, at the last meeting of the Washington Council of Social Workers. Major Campbell Johnson, executive secretary of the Twelfth Street Branch, Y. M. C. A., and the chairman of the Race Relations Committee of the Washington Committee on Housing led the discussion. He said "Let us give the Negro family a chance. Let us talk housing for awhile just as we talked disease, delinquency and crime. A little better housing and there will be a good deal less of those." Major Johnson continued, by tracing, for 100 years, the housing situation as it affected the Negro. In the earlier years, no consideration was given the housing of Negroes in the District, as many were slaves for whom shacks and bare shelter were thought sufficient. When thought was given, many homes for Negroes were in alley, in back of the main streets. Despite this, however, he soil, many free persons had by thrift, acquired comfortable homes in prominent parts of the city. Two-Thirds In Alleys Sixty-three years ago, two-thirds of the Negro population lived in alleys, and the agents and owners of these houses received higher profits from their rentals than from homes on the main streets. Effords have been made for 42 years to remove the social cancers, the headaches of disease and crime. The desire for better homes among the group had been so long stiffened that it was almost an accepted theory that there is contentment with the housing conditions as they have been, the speaker said. In 1934, Congress passed a law to close the alley dwellings. At that time there were more than 10,000 colored and 500 white tenants in them. Unfortunately, there who operated real estate and who planned residential areas in the District had not provided small homes within the income of the majority of the Negro population. A survey has shown that in order to have better living places, many have occupied larger houses with more than one family living in space intended for one family only. Major Johnson explained that the proposed Langston Terrace Housing project of the United States Public Works Administration, to be located in northwest Washington, will provide accommodation for about 322 families or 1,100 persons. The third of this series of lectures was given Thursday, December 19. Mrs. Ethel Roberson Stepnens, instructor in the Department of Home Economics at Howard University, delivered the lecture. She is a product of Ohio State University and Columbia. She discussed "The Necessity for training in Home Economics in the Negro Family." These lectures are open to every one engaged in social welfare work among the colored people of the District of Columbia. LEGION LAUNCHES DRIVE TUSKEGEE. Aye—The Britton Mc. McKenzie Post No. 150 of the American Legion has undertaken a membership drive which is directed by Lewis W. Driver. Post commander, and E. H. Cravens, Ballou Ignores Dr. Wilkinson's And Civic Associations' Request Plea That Board of Education Join With Civic Groups in Objecting to Use of Track Near Deanwood and Burville Schools Sidetracked Twice Children Can Mail Names For Santa Claus to Keep SANTA CLAUS, Ind.—A lot of children's mail is going to be preserved for all time beneath the 23-foot statue of Santa Claus here Christmas afternoon. A vault under the statue will hold the mail. All any child has to do to have his name and address dropped into the vault is to mail it on a penny postcard. The name must be written, however, in a space one and one-fourth by three and a half-inches. The postcards must be addressed to the Secretary of Santa Claus Park here. The name of President Roosevelt, Governor Paul V. McNutt, and other persons also will be put in the vault. The Santa Claus Good Fellowship Club, a non-profit organization, is behind the movement. COPS HOLD PAIR IN ROBBERIES OF D. C. MERCHANTS Local Police Round Up Remainder of Gang Which Slew As They Went Two men, Richard Clay Brundy, 26, and Roland Washington, 2, both of the 2200 block Eighth Street. Northwest, were taken into custody by Washington police late this week following their arrest in Philadelphia in connection with alleged wholesale robberies in this city. Detective Sergeant Paul Jones was among the quartet of headquarters men who rounded he pair up. During the last four years the gang held up scores of filling station, restaurants, stores and street car motormen, shooting freely when registered, police declared Two members of the gang, Milton Terry and Melvin Strothers, are serving life sentences for the hold up murder of Gauss Hutch, a numbers operator, in November, 1933. Four others who ran with the mob were rounded up after this shooting and now are doing time at Lorton Reformatory for robbery. Washington was picked up about 10 days ago and was still to have given police information that Prunty was saving time in Philadelphia on a disorderly conduct charge. For the second time, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of the District public schools, thumbed his nose at a request made to the Board of Education by the Federation of Civic Associations, other civic groups, and the office of the first assistant sapte intendant of schools. The civic association, at the November meeting of the board, had requested the Board of Education to join in with them in filing objections to the granting of the application of the East Washington Railway Company for authority to operate a line of railway using the trackage of the old Chessapeake Beach Railway Company, within the limits of the District of Columbia. The objection was to be registered with the District Commissioners and the Interstate Commerce Commission. The treckage in question is in the vicinity of the Deanwood and Burrville Schools, and is not at the present time in use. Citizens Protest CITIZENS PROJECT The Federation of Civic Associations, the Northeast Surburban Citizens Association, the Glendale Citizens Association, and the Capital View Citizens Association have registered with the Commissioners and with the Interstate Commerce Commission their objections to the granting of the application of the East Washington Railway Company for authority to operate a line of railway successive to the Chesapeake Beach Railway Company within the District of Columbia. Tracked Called Menace Tracked Called Meena- The grounds on which this request was made was that the revival of the use of the trackage of the Old Chesapeake Beach Railway Company would seriously interfere with the proposal to improve the highways in the Deanwood and Burville sections, and would constitute a menace to school children who have to cross and recross these tracks in their attendance at the Burville School. In spite of the fact that Dr. Garnet C. Wilkinson had personally investigated the matter, and recommended to Dr. Ballou that it be presented to the Board of Education for approval, the superintendent asked that the matter lie over until the December meeting. In the interim, Dr. Wilkinson gathered additional data in support WARFIELD ASKS 2 DOCTORS, 21 NEW NURSES Freedme ns Head Cites Needs in Hospital's Annual Report Twenty-one additional graduate nurses and two more resident physicians, together with additional orderlies and clerks, are needed by Freedmen's Hospital in order to bring that institution up to what it should be, according to the annual report filed late this week. The report was drawn up by Dr. William A. Warfield, surgeon-in-chief, and forwarded to the Interior Department for consideration. Pointing out that in the past few years, Freedmen's has had several buildings added without any increase in personnel, Dr. Warfield stated that these additions are imperative. Patients Need More Care He says that twenty-one additional graduate nurses must be employed so that the patients may be given at least the minimum of required care and the hours of duty for the nurses may be reduced to eight a day, in accordance with maximum standards. He reports that a clerk is urgently needed in the social-service department. Three orderlies are also needed—one for right duty in the male surgical ward, one for service in the new clinical building, and one for the internet' residence and a maid for night duty in the obstetrical' ward. Denies Discrimination At Boston Y.M.C.A. BOSTON (ANP) — A mooted question was partially answered here last week when Walter Shaw, associate director of membership of the Huntington Avenza V.M.C.A, in a letter to Attorney Matthew W. Bullock, gave him definite assurance that no applicant was denied membership at that branch of the organization a account of racial extraction. The letter was in reply to a query made by Attorney Bullock before renewing his membership. There is no Negro branch of the Y.M.C.A. in this city, due to the attitude of the Negro citizenry against any form of discrimination. Reports of discrimination at the Huntington Y.M.C.A. led Attorney Bulloch to request an answer to these charges before renewing his membership. In reply Mr. Shaw stated: "We admit young man of color to full privilege use of our membership, which includes the dormitory." of the request of the citizens' groups, and submitted that data to Dr Ballon for presentation to the Board of Education. 493 Lives Endangered Dr Wilkinson's further investigation found that 490 children now attending the Burville School cross an recross daily two sets of tracks at Division Avenue—those of the Chesapeake Beach Railway Company and those of the Capital Transit Company. "It is true that there is no present menace to school children in crossing the tracks of the Chesapeake Beach Railway at Division Avenue because the line is not now overtaking." Dr. Wilkinson reported. "Should the Interstate Commerce Commission, however, grant the request of the East Washington Railway Company for permission to purchase and operate the trackage of the old Chesapeake Beach Railway within the limits of the District of Columbia, there would be a real danger to these 493 school children in crossing and recrossing the double line of trackage at Division Avenue. Cooperation Sought Cooperation Solvent "Accordingly, this office recommends that the Board of Education register with the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and with the Interstate Commissions Commission its objection to the granting of the application of the East Washington Railway Company for authority to operate a line of railway using the trackage of the old Chosanaka Beach Railway Company within the limits of the District of Columbia," Dr Wilkinson reported. Too Much Time In presenting the matter to the board at its meeting last Wednesday, Dr. Ballon presented the matter as requiring too much time for that meeting, and asked that it lie over for another month, which the board did. Officials of the civic associations have pointed out that unless the Board of Education file its objections to the matter immediately, the railway company will have been given permission to operate its line. "If the board, through Dr. Ballon, keeps delaying and sidetracking the matter," one official said, "it will goon be too late for them to protest." MINER COLLEGE GRAD COMMITTED TO ASYLUM Despite denials that she had slept in basements, parked automobiles and vacant apartments, her two-year-old baby in her arms, Miss Ellen Brown, 1107 Nineteenth Street, Northwest, was committed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane by an order of Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue, in the District Supreme Court, Monday. Miss Brown, a graduate in the 1926 class of Miner Teachers' College, then the Miner Normal School, insisted before the court that she had answered all her questions correctly and that she was as sane as any of her questioners. Her father, James R. Brown, testified that his daughter had lost her reason on the suddent death of her mother at a time when she was studying very hard to complete her normal school course. The young woman's statement that she had once taught in the local public schools was not affirmed by Franklin School officials. TAKE CIVIL SERVICE TEST TUSKEGEE.—Forty-five persons took the civil service examination here this week for senior and junior stenographers and typists for existing vacancies in the service. JOHN F. CANNON ELECTED TO HEAD UNDERWRITERS Next Meeting of Washington Association to Be Held January 10 The Washington Life Underwriters Association met at the office of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Friday, December 13. The order of the day was the election of officers for 1936, and the reading of the reports of the standing committees and the officers of the year just pussed. The following officers were elected: President, John F. Cannon, of the Supreme Liberty; vice-president, Robert L. Berry, North Carolina Mutual; vice-president, Miss Emma J. Miller, Federal Life; secretary, Samuel A. Dickerson, North Carolina Mutual; treasurer, Guy Ferguson, Southern Aid; chaplain, Albert E. Hawkins, Victory Mutual; legal counselor, Belford V. Lawson, of the law firm of Lawson and Berry, and the past president. The reports of the committees and the outgoing officers were deferred until a later meeting as the time was taken up with the elections. After a few remarks by the new president in which he asked for the full support for his program, and an early meeting of the executive committee the meeting was adjourned until Friday, January 10. Colorado Springs NAACP Says Police Insult Women COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Charges that the police department of Colorado Springs insults colored women and is carrying on a campaign against Negroos who associate with white women while ignoring white men who associate with Negro women and a so ignoring complaints from reputable colored women about being molested by white men, are costaned in a resolution adopted last week by the Colorado Springs branch of the N.A.A.C.P. W. E. B. D-Bois to Address Local N.A.A.C.P. W.E.B. DuBois, former editor of the Crisis Magazine and for many years one of the country's leading Negroes, will address a meeting here on Sunday, February 9. The meeting will be under the auspices of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. His subject will be: "Italy and Ethiopia." CONSTITUTION IS DEFENDED BY MOREHOUSE IN DEBATE ATLANTA, Ga.—England's art America's forms of constitutional government were warmly defended and in turn strongly condemned in the course of a debate here. Thursday, in which the Oxford Union Society team from Oxford University, England, and Morehouse College argued the question: "Resolved, That a Written Constitution is a Hindrance Pather Than a Safeguard to Social Progress." HOLDS ART EXHIBIT RALEIGH. N.C.—Photographs of earrings which were included in the exhibition of Arican Negro At at the museum of Modern Art in New York City from March to May, 1935, are being shown in the Shaw University library. THE BEST SELLER EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE, King of Kings and Lion of Judah as he appears before the micro phone in Addis Ababa in a recent broadcast. The Emperor is now at the front leading his warriors against the Italian army. ATLANTA TO BE HOST TO SIGMAS Vital Race Problems to Be Main Issue at Phi Beta Sigma Conclave Plans for what promise, to be the greatest conclave the history of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity have been completed, Jesse W. Lewis, National President; announced this week. The conclave, to be held in Atlanta, Ga.; December 27-30, will be attended by more than 500 members of the fraternity, the president said. Dr. Locke to Speak Among the outstanding fraternity men who will address the conclave are Dr. Alain Locke, Professor J. W. Woodhouse, Bishop V. J. Walls, Albion L. Holsey, Dr. James Weldon Johnson, Dr. George W. Carver, Dr Thomas Turner, C. B. Gilpin and many others. Professors A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse and C. L. Brown, founders of the fraternity, are also expected to attend. While there will be a number of interesting social events, including an inter-fraternal smoker, President Lewis stated that the meeting is for the purpose of giving serious thought and attention to solving some of the vital problems confronting the race, nation and world. Among the interesting sessions will be a forum on Negro business to which all Alabama business men have been invited. Washington Delegates The Washington delegation, led by George Lewis, will include A. L. Taylor, Dr. H. B. Bald, Dean George A. P. Paskey, Professor C. B. Ingram, James France, J. Eugar Smith, and others to be elected at a later date. S.W. HOUSE PLANS CHRISTMAS PARTY The Harmony Glee Club of the Southwest Community House had a most interesting and entertaining program Wednesday evening at the House. Several vocal and instrumental selections were rendered. The Glee Club sang a number of spirituals in an effective manner. The Parent Education group will conduct a Christmas raffle for the benefit of the House. The children of the Nursery School will take a trip to Toyland, accompanied by their nursery teacher, Miss Lillian Dotson Interest is still high with Mrs. Lydia P. Miller's craft class, Quilts, spreads, dresses and sweaters are nearing completion. The boys at Southwest House are all ringing "Happy Am I." They have use of the gymnasium at New Bell School one night a week Mr. Butcher and Mr. Street are busy making ready the program to be held at New Bell School. December 30, when the children will have their visit from Santa Claus, Colonel West Hamilton has made possible the distribution of a Dixie Ice Cream Cup to each child, through the courtesy of the Lichtman Theatres. More than 100 children have signed up for the Theatre Party, that the children of the city will enjoy. Tap, tap, taps, and more taps, it would delight any one to see the beauty, grace and rhythm of the small girls now practicing under the direction of Hartwell Cook. D3 BALLOU WILL REPORT ON CHARGE Gaskins Says Teachers are Compelled to Pay for Books Students Lose Complaint that some teachers in the public schools are being compelled to pay for lost books when they are not responsible for their loss, was filed with the Board of Education by Benjamin L. Gaskins, junior member of the board, at its meeting in the Franklin School Building last Wednesday afternoon. Superintendent of Schools Frank W. Ballou was ordered by the Board to investigate the charges and make a full report at the next meeting, sst for January 2. The charge was immediately denied by Dr. Ballou, however, who claimed that the only teacher required to pay for lost books last year was one who had lost a large number of books and was required to pay for them by the District Auditor. Dr. Ballou explained that the principals are responsible for all books sent to their schools; that teachers are responsible for all books issued to their class, and that the parents are responsible for all books issued to their children. Gaslips contended that he had specific complaints from teachers who allege that they were compelled to pay for books that were lost by students, when the teacher had used due diligence in seeing that the students took good care of the books and returned them at the end of the year. Report on the Jim-crow football game that was played here between the white high schools and the Mexico City High School, was made by the superintendent, who reported that after all expenses had been paid, $56 were turned over to the Boys Club of the Metropolitan Police Department. Charge Segregation Mrs. Mary Mason and Gaskins, two of the three colored members of the Board, had voted against the game on the grounds that athletes in the colore high school were barred from participation, and that the funds derived would be used exclusively for the promotion of a boys' club for white children. Dr. Ballon informed the Board that there was an increase in the enrollment in the public schools over that covering the same period last year of 1,518 pupils. A total of 92,759 pupils are enrolled in the public schools of the District at the present date, he said. The Board of Education adopted a motion barring any further public hearings on the controversy of Communism now rampant through the District. All future statements concerning the topic to be presented to the Board must be done in writing. The adoption of a report on a charge in textbooks, summarized by Dr. Ballou, was objected to by Cashins on the grounds that he had not given study to the books on the list. Cashins contended that he could not approve the list when he did not know what was in the books. Cashins Refuses to Vote. "If I vote for those books and something turns up later about Communism, then we will be blamed for approving them," the Board member claimed. "We don't know anything about algebra, physics, and a lot of other subjects," Henry I. Quinn, Board member said; "but we approve the use of the books on the recommendation of the textbook course and the superindentent whom we charge with the responsibility of recommending for use only those books that are of high calibre. "If something comes up concerning the books, then we hold the appointment responsible." The board received a letter from Dr. C. Herbitt Marshall, advocate of corporal punishment in the public schools, expressing regret at the publicity given his proposal. Dr. Marshall wrote that he was sorry that the true picture of the conditions in the colored schools has been denied you because of the statements of some of our high officials who oppose revocation of the corporal punishment ban." He concluded with the hope that if the Board deem it unwise to return to corporal punishment, it "will do something immoderate to help relieve the chaotic condition which exists in our public schools." Henry F. Ash, white, writing as a "parent" protested "any thought of attempt on the part of the Board of Education, including granting; or allowing teachers the privilege of whipping pupils." The proposal received support in a lettrt sent the Board by A. U. Blair, white; while James Simpson, also white, telegraphai the Board to obtain the teacher's point of view before reaching any decision respecting corporal punishment, and advising the Board to "penalize students instead of teachers or there will be less control than ever." JEFFERSON CITY. M o. "Bethlehem," a Christian cantata by Maunder and Mumu were presented Sunday night by the R Natheniel Dett Choral Society of Lincoln University in the college chapel. Greeks to Mingle Race Problems With Gaiety in Yuletide Confabs Tuskegee. Prominent speakers on the Sigma's program are Mayor James L. Key, Jesse W. Lewis, president of the fraternity; Dr. Alaine L. Locke, head of the Department of Philosophy, Howard University; Roy Wilkins, editor of the Crisis, and assistant, secretary; of the N. A. A.C. P.; Bishop W. J. Walls, of the Eighth Episcopal District, A.M.E. Zion Church; Albon L. Hosley, budget director; Tuskegee Institute, and secretary of the National Negro Business League, and James A. Jackson, of the Standard Oil Company. Social highlights of the Sigma Conclave include the Pan-Hellenic Council, dance, inter-fraternal smoker, Sigma-Omaa basketball game, Sigma Conclave 'ball' and the Omega Conclave ball. To Broadcast Address The Kappas will have their heatquarters at the Poro College in St. Louis, Mo. Their program will feature a sermon to the fraternity by Bishop Noah William, of the A. M E. Church; radio address over Station KDS and an open meeting at the Lane Tabernacle. Their social program calls for an open dance at the Municipal Auditorium, reception for Kappa wives and visitors, Poro College; dance, Sigma Gamma Rho, Municipal Auditorium, sight-seeing tour, open house, A.K.A. and Alpha Phi Alpha dance, Castle Ball Room; annual banquet, Delta Theta Dance, Castle Ball Room, and the Kappa prom. Delegates to the various organizations from Washington are as follows: Washington Delegates Kappa Alpha Psi — James E. Scott, Dr. W. H. Greene, Judge Armond W. Scott, Dr. Willard Lane, George E. C. Hayes, Kirkland Renfro, Anthony H. Pierce, John W. Clark, Thomas H. Andrews, Jesse O. 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Return your purchase and we will record your money. TWELVE Social activities, open Forums, and public meetings mark the highlights of programs just completed for the five National Greekletter organizations which will convene for their National Conclaves during the Christmas holidays. Washington will play host to the annual meeting of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority; Nashville, Tennessee is the meeting place of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; the Omega Psi Phi and the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternities will invade Atlanta, George, while the members of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity will go West to St. Louis, Missouri. Heads of three of the fraternities live in Washington, D. C., Dr. Charles H. Wesley, head of the Department of History, Howard University, is president of the Alpha Fraternity; Lieutenant L. A. Oxley, Chief, Division of Labor, U. S. Department of Labor, is the basileus of the Omega Fraternity, and Jesse W. Lewis, head of the Department of Commerce and Finance. Howard University, is president of the Sigmas. Outstanding speakers on the Omega Program include Mayor James L. Key, Dr. Willis J. King; president, Gammon Theological Seminary; the Rev W. J. Faulner, W. S. Burke, Dr. W. Witherspoon Dodge, Dr. S. H. Archer, president of Morehouse College; Lieut-L. A. Oxley, Dr. E. J. Just, head Department of Zoology, Howard University; Dr Edgar Love, District Superintendent of the M. E. Church; Professor Frank Coleman, head Department of Physics, Howard University; Dr. Cooper, and Ira De Reid. Social events scheduled consist of a pre-conclave smoker, a twilight get-acquainted dance, a formal dance, Phi Beta Sigma dance, Omega Conclave dance, Inter-Sorority dance, motorcade to Louis Clymer and James M. Corgas, Omega Phi Phi — C. Waldo Scott, Frederick S. Weaver, Arthur Price, John P. Davis, Dr. E. E. Just, Professor Frank Coleman, and the Rev. Edgar A. Love, Phi Beta Sigma — Jesse W. Lewis, A. A. Taylor, Dr. B. H. Early, George A. Parker, Professor C. B. Ingram, James Turner, and J. Edgar Smith. The sessions of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority will be held in Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, Howard University, beginning December 27. The major theme of the conclave will deal with the problem of extending educational service to the members of the race who do not receive the benefits of a regular school term. Among the many social events planned for the entertainment of the visiting sorors are the ball on Friday, December 27, given by the local chapter, the public meeting in the chapel at Howard University at 8 o'clock Saturday night; and the reception at the Phyllis Whealey Y.W.C.A., December 28, from 10 to 11:30 in the evening. Sunday morning, at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, the annual sermon will be preached. A sight-seeing trip will follow the sermon. Varied forms of entertainment will be sponsored by the Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta Sororities. the Phi Beta Sigma and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternities, and the Inter-Fraternal Council. Ada Brown Hit Scores SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (ANP) — The theatre goers of the Golden West heaped praise on another sepia star last week, when Ada Brown played a successful week at the Warfield Theatre on Market Street here. Before coming here Miss Brown made her first California appearance this trip, at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, under the supervision of Fanchon and Marco, the same group which hold the contracts on Cab Calloway, while the maestro is on the Coast. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1935 M. B. H. ATLANTA, Ga.—Georgia's old anti-sedition statute of 1866, under which Angelo Herndon, Communist, was sentenced to eighteen to twenty years in prison, was held unconstitutional' in a habeas corpus ruling by Judge Hugh M. Dorsey. In his decision, Judge Dorsey upheld the defense contention that the statute as construed and applied in this case is "in conflict with the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States, in that it is too vague and too indefinite to provide a standard of guilt." Herndon is shown on the left; Judge Dorsey at the right. "Mulatto" Continues Run NEW YORK — Despite the adverse criticism leveled at "Mulatto" when it first opened on Broadway, Langston Hughes' show has turned into a box office attraction, according to its management, and now seats are selling ten weeks in advance. DR. WILKINSON ADDRESSES P.-T.A. The Parent-Teacher meeting for the Phillips Wormley Group was held in the Phillips School Thursday, December 12. The presiding officer was Mrs. B. Simpson, a parent who is the president of the association. The Rev. M. N. Newsome, pastor of the First Baptist Church., gave the invocation and the benediction. The principal speakers on the program were Dr. Garnet C. Wilkinson and Mrs. Mae Stewart Thompson. In his talk to the assemblage, Dr. Wilkinson urged the parents to use the utmost foresight in planning schools for the future use of their children. Mr. Thompson spoke at some length on the generalities attending personal hygiene, and stressed the need for close parent and teacher observation of children to discover early symptoms of disease. Two plays, "Mother, What Shall I Do?" and "The Victory of the Good Citizen" were presented by Mrs. B. C. Jaymes, and Miss S. E. Moore, respectively. Mrs. Jaymes was the author of the first mentioned skit. A report of the activities of the Social Service Group was read by the chairman of that committee, Mrs. Rosetta McDaniel. The report gave details concerning the amounts of food and clothing that had been distributed in the Georgetown area, for the use of needy families. A representative of the Student Council, Millicent Rodney, gave a brief talk on the purpose of the council. Millicent is a pupil in the 6A grade. An award was offered for the room whose pupils had the largest number of parents present. A tie in numbers resulted between Miss Moore's room and that of Mrs. Hamm. Miss Jackson, in her remarks, brought the crowded conditions to the attention of those present, with the hope that interest for the construction of a suitable auditorium would be fostered. The committee of arrangements was made up of the following faculty members: Mrs. J. Abrahim, Mrs. I. S. Powell, Mrs. A. R. Fortune, Mrs. E. McK. Rattley, Miss S. E. Moore and Mrs. G. H. Hamm. Music was furnished by the Student Glee Club under the direction of Mrs. A. R. Fortune and Miss C. C. Patrick. Before the close or the meeting the officials, parents and friends were invited to attend Christmas caroling exercises in both schools on Thursday and Friday of this week. See Play, Cantata, At Downingtown DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. — Before starting out on their 16-day vacation, which began here Friday afternoon, December 30, the students at Downingtown Industrial School enjoyed a Christmas program sponsored by Mrs. Mitchell's DIE players and Mrs. Waring's DIE club. The players presented a serious one-act play entitled "The Forgotten Man." Especially excellent work was done by Frederick Swan as a young minister; Percy Steele, a janitor; Charles Creamer as "The Man—a Tramp; and Catherine Clemman a waif. Others in the cast were LeeRoy Scranton, Helen Odom and Demetrius Barbona. JUST OUT A New Guide WASHINGTON BY TROLLEY AND MOTOR COACH COMPLIMENTS OF Capital Transit Company Washington Rapid Transit Company Copy of Guide will be sent FREE on request TELEPHONE WEST 1246 CAPITAL TRANSIT COMPANY 36th AND M STREETS, N. W. Greek Letter Societies To Hear of NAACP Work NEW YORK — The campaign now being carried on by the NAACP against educational inequalities will be outlined to the annual Christmas conventions of college fraternities and sororities next week by speakers representing the association. The Alpha Kappa Alpha So- QUICK STARTING? ESSO IN THE TANK AND QUICK FLOWING ESSO MOTOR OIL IN THE CRANKCASE·THEY'RE COLD WEATHER TWINS! BUY AT THE ESSO SIGN THE SIGN OF Happy Motoring! Refill at One of These Esso Stations BELTRAN BARKER . . 11th & V Sts., N. W. BROWN'S SERVICE . Ga. Ave. at V St., N.W. PHILIP TOLSON . . . 5th & R Sts., N. W. O. W. MADDEN . . . 4931 Grant Ave., N. E. CLOMAX SERVICE . . . So. Capitol St., at M ESSO STATION, Sherman Av. atCol.Rd., N.W. JOHN S. REECE . . O St-bet. 7th & 8th, N.W. rority, meeting in Richmond, Va., will have as guest speaker Miss Juanita E. Jackson, of the NAACP national office staff. Miss Jackson also will speak to the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, meeting in Richmond at the same time. The Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, meeting in St. Louis, will hear Leon A. Ransom, while the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, meeting in Nashville, Tenn., will have as its speaker Thurgood Marshall, who was the counsel in the victorious University of Maryland case. William H. Hastie is scheduled to address the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority meeting in Washington, D.C., while Roy Wilkins, of the nationla office staff and editor of the Crisis, will address the Omega Psi Phi and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternities, meeting in Atlanta, Ga. BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITA NEW YORK (ANP) — Dean Dixon, one of the youngest conductors of the group interested in serious music, was signally honored last week when he was elected president of his class at the Juilliard School of Music of this city. Mr. Dixon is a student in the Supervisors Course in Public School music. An accomplished musician, his work as leader of the Y.M.C.A. Little Symphony, has brought him considerable fame. This organization has been heard over the air on numerous occasions and is constantly in demand for appearances in other parts of the city. The trouble with an income is to get it to come in. Jim Crow Street Car Service Advocated at Hearing Whites Object to "Rubbing Elbows" with Negro Patrons IN THE SHADOW OF THE STARS By Abbe Wallace BUNGEST MENTALIST ON THE AMERICAN STAGE NOTE: Your question answered in this paper—ONLY when a clipping of this column is enclosed in your letter. For private reply—send a quarter (25c) and a self-addressed, stamped envelope, for my NEW ASTROLOGY READING—and receive by return mail FREE advice on three (3) questions. Sign your FULL NAME, BIRTH DATE, and CORRECT ADDRESS. Send all letters to Abbe Wallace, care of WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, 920 U Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C. (Continued from Page 1) groups to outline to the commission the needs and poor service affecting patrons in the colored sections of the city. His testimony before the commission follows: Following the lead of the Washington Tribune, the Citizens Associations of the District of Columbit set forth a gist of complaints of the inadequate street car and bus services of the Capital Transit Company, at the Public Utilities hearing at the District Commissioners last week Before the hearing was two hours old, however, it was apparent that the commissions' employees were not placing in the record a full statement of the street car shortcomings and the grossly inadequate service in the mid-Northwest section of the city along U Street and its contributing territories Want Negro Sections Skipped Through the efforts, however, of the Howard Park Citizens' Association and the Central Citizens' Association, Riley E. Elgen, chairman of the P.U.C. Commission, presiding at the hearing, promised to have the record corrected. It also developed early in the hearing that certain representatives' of so-called citizens associations in the territory north of Soldiers' Home were far more interested in the establishment of an express street car service down Ninth Street, from some point north of the Ball Park to G Street, then they were in the general improvement in the street car and bus service of the city. D. C. Harlem These express cars would skip a large section of Nero neighborhoods. A. George Corbin giving his association as the Manor Park Association and his home address as 218 Peabody Street, Northwest, was insistent upon a "demand for my community" the establishment of the often mentioned express service down Ninth Street. Another man, W. H. Parsons, who gave his association as the Potomac Park Association and his address as 710 Elder Street, Northwest, was also insistent that the Ninth Street express service be established. He gave as a reason that the X. X. — Do you think that this lady I have in mind can cure my baby? Ans.: The lady you saw on the street works more on a bluff than anything else — If you'll take your baby to a good medical doctor instead of depending upon people of this type, you will have a better chance to cure it. s. L. R. — Just what is my niece up to? Ans.: Ever since you have known your husband, your niece has been trying to intertwine with your relationship. Even before you married him, she asked him for money and told him things about you, trying to turn his attention toward her — Your husband knows her ways, and he doesn't pay any attention to her now. A. T. — Will I be successful in taking the trip I have in mind?... Ans.: Yes — However, don't take this journey with the intentions of finding work when you arrive there, for you will only remain there a few days. Your financial circumstances will prevent you from making a permanent change anytime within the next few months. I. F. — I am worried about my home and I would like to know how it will turn out. ..Should I buy another home? Ans.: It is my impression that during the year of 1936 the Government will take over your home, although you won't get any more for it than the assessed valuation — Don't even consider buying another home until your husband has a better job, and one that is permanent. Worried Kid: — Did my boy friend have T.B? Ans.: Although your boy friend was rather sick, it is my opinion that his trouble was not Tuberculosis — However, whenever you are in doubt about a person's trouble, it is wise to play safe. E. M. B. — Should I depend on my husband for my Life's happiest? street cars down Georgia Avenue and Seventh Street had to pass through "Washington's Harlem." Over Night Residents It developed later by testimony from persons in the same territory that those associations were of mushroom growth and that "a handful of men wanting a little publicity" organized, those so-called associations. Looking up Corbin and Parsons it was discovered that neither lived at the address given in 1834 and further that the city directory noted no house at 218 Peabody Street in that year. Robert A. Pelham: I want to speak to the record about street car conditions which confront us in the Northeast and the Northwest. Chairman Elgen: You can take it up with Mr. Roberts, the People's Counsel. Mr. Pelham: We want to illustrate the condition that confronts us, and I do not want to do it thru Mr. Roberts. The conditions from 1:40 to 3:30 in the afternoon at New Jersey and Florida Avenues do not illustrate our condition or the contentions that we make. From 7:30 until 9:30 is when you get the people on the cars that run through "You" Street. The same thing happens all along the line from New Jersey Avenue to Eighteenth Street. I represent the Howard Park Citizens' Association, Central Northwest Citizens' Association and the Bloomingdale Citizens' Association and the record is not correct. Are you going to study the inadequate car system just at isolated points? Chairman Elgen: You mean it is not correct? It does not go far enough? Mr. Pelham: It is inadequate. Just like the car system. We want something shown from 7:30 in the morning until 9:30, and from 4 o'clock in the afternoon until 8, and when the theatres are let out. We have six or seven theatres up there and you cannot get home from them without transferring two or more times. You have no through car system from the northeastern part of the city through 'You' Street to the northwestern part of the dity. Cars sometimes run around the triangle at 7th Street and some cars go Ans.: It would be to your advantage to seek someone else instead of depending too much on your husband, for if you had been suited for one another you would never have separated — However, you can always depend on your husband for the support of your child. ..R. H. E. — Does this boy in my class room care for me? Ans.: It is known by all your class mates that this boy is very interested in you — However, you don't like him, so don't make yourself care for him just because you are flattered by his attentions. M. L. — Do you think I will be happy in taking this trip I have planned? Ans.: You certainly will — This trip will be the happiest one you have ever made, for your sweet-heart will be waiting for you when you arrive in Miami to make you his wife. L. T. — Do you think I can persuade my husband to come back home? Ans.: Your husband doesn't need any persuading — Get rid of this man you are with who doesn't care enough about you to even support you, and your husband will be willing to come back and take care of you and your child. B. R. — Who was the woman that went out on my boy friend's job looking for him? Ans.: She was just a bill collector — This visit was strickly a business one, and there was nothing personal attached to it. M. C. M. — I am in love with a girl and have been for a period of time and I wanted to marry her. Please tell me what would be best to do? Ans: Since you are just recovering from an accident, and don't have a job it would be wise for you to wait before marrying. until you have time to pull yourself together-That will be a good way to find out whether or not she is dependable. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1935 down 9th Street with no people in them. We are put off at 7th Street and have to stand in the rain part of the time. That is what we are confronted with and we want something done about it. Mr. Roberts: Give your name and initials. Mr. Pelham: Robert A. Pelham. Mr. Roberts: Where do you reside? Mr. Pelham: 153 T Street. The northeast corner of Second and T Streets, Northwest. Mr. Roberts: What association are you representing? Mr. Pelham: Howard Park Citizens' Association. Mr. Roberts: You have lived there how long? Mr. Pelham: I have lived in that territory for 35 years. Mr. Roberts: All right, sir, go ahead and make you statement. Mr. Pelham: I come here this afternoon to advocate an investigation as to the cross-town cars—through cars on U Street from New Jersey Avenue to Rock Creek Park. We have no through cars now. When I want to go to my office in the morning in the 1300 block of U Street and get there in any reasonable time I go to Rhode Island Avenue about a couple of hundred feet from my front door and take a bus west on Rhode Island Avenue. Go to at least 11th Street—because the 7th Street and the 9th Street cars do not turn west on U Street. I sometimes get off at Eleventh Street and take a car marked "Rock Creek Bridge." Generally, however, I go to Fourteenth Street, because I can make faster time. — Via Fourteenth and Rhode Island Avenue— I transfer and go north to U Street; walk back half a block to the office. I go there every morning between 9 and 10 o'clock. That is the way I came this morning. Now, this talk about, a Ninth Street express line, I do not know much about it. I cannot represent my association in that, it has never come up there. I know however, that 25 years ago we advocated the opening of W Street, west of Ninth. That is a route we favored 25 years ago, when Mr. Newman was Commissioner. He met with us two nights and we showed him the practicalbility of it. That would have thrown the then, Brightwood cars over to Ninth Street and they would not have had to pass the Ball Park. The street car company. — I think, Mr Ham was then president of the Metropolitan Company that ran the Brightwood line, got interested in it. All of a sudden however, he lost interest. We do not know why. Since that time there has been a street opened, a very broad street, and the street car company has built a garage there for their buses. Mr. Roberts: What is the name of the street? Mr. Pelham: I do not know the name of the street.. It would practically be V Street. Now, as I say, we advocated that re-routing advocated for at least 10 years, we could not get the Commissioner to take it up. The interest died out, so we dropped it. I want to say a little about this talk about domestic servants. I would like to sk the company if they do not consider the domestic servants that ride on their car lines or buses, the best paying passengers? They ride at times when very few people are going in the same direction that they are going. For instance, they go to the Northwest section before the crowd starts downtown in the morning. They come back at night after the rush hour uptown in the evening and so are out of the way. They only ride on an average of three times a day on their passes, yet they are hampered in a lot of ways by non-consideration. They do not get little consideration, the connections are not made to suit them as a general proposition. A lot of them are put to the expense of using taxis or having the people that hire them pay for 'taxis. I would like to ask the company if they do not consider the domestic servant-passengers one of the best paying propositions they have. Now, as to the LeDroit Park bus situation in our community. The people up there are very resentful of the abandonment of that line. We did not get any hearing, there wasn't very much publicity given to it. Mr. Elgen says the experts all advised it, but nobody was present to question them as to why they advised it. It was abandoned on January 6 and the make-shift bus route was put in there that ran around six or seven blocks and that was maintained until a teacher in the Gage School (white): on Second Street, facing Elm Street, just north of where I live objected to it. In about three weeks it was changed. The loop that it made was narrowed and it ran down Third Street, as it is running now. The buses run over the rough tracks and the badly paved streets. It was not satisfactory. Now, they have connected it with the P Street bus line from New Jersey Avenue to Thirty-sixth and O. That line. I want to say, is a very fair line for those who want to go across town to Georgetown, but not to get downtown, because they have to transfer somewhere and make the connection. They can however, make connections, at a dozen places for both north and south cars on other lines. Everything I am going to say here I have subantiated by personal investigation as a newspaper THE FEDERAL NATIONAL HISTORY SOCIETY A jim crow street car and bus service was advocated, here last week by several, white persons during the transit hearing before the Public Utilities Commission. Upper: Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan, white, of Georgetown, discussing transportation problems with President John H. Hanna, of the Capital Transit Company. Mrs. Sullivan suggested separation of the races. She would have instead of a color line a "white line." The lower pictures show Milo H. Bronkley, white, who does not like to "ruh elbows" with colored and suggested a jim crow system man. I have written a number of articles about the car situation There were few stop signs. I will not say that is the case now, because on Eleventh Street, I saw a couple of stop signs there this noon that were not there three or four days ago. When I went over the line and checked up the bus stop signs, there were but two from New Jersey Avenue to Dupont Circle. Mr Roberts: On the P Street line? Mr Pelham: On the P Street line. I suppose there was a reason for that. A great many of the street crossings had the traffic sign up. Our people in the LeDroit section were very much exercised about it, because they did not know where to stand. The night that I made the investigation and check up an operator asked me what I was doing and I told him. He said: Well, we will be very grateful to you if you can effect the placing of signs here, because we are in controversy with passengers every day as to where they should stand to get on or off. It will let us give good service." We have in our territory, right in the heart of our territory, the American League Baseball Park. People have to come and go from there at all times, day and night. They run baseball and football games, and wrestling matches, boxing or fights there, and a great many times during the year, in addition to the afternoon games, sometimes they have great morning crowds, as when the public schools have drills and play games there. I have sat here every minute of this investigation since it started. I have taken numerous notes, and I noted a tendency to slur the people of our territory. One man here yesterday said: "You know, we have to go through Washington's Harlem." "I want to say for the benefit of you gentlemen there is no Washington Harlem. We have undesirable people in our community, some of them, that is true. We take pride in having driven out a Hebrew that came in and established the Cotton Club for the amusement of white people only. He was in the Masonic Temple, which has just been taken over by the Government, at Tenth and U Streets, and which will house, I understand, about 300 Government employees shortly after the first. Now, I have a statement here, Mr. Roberts, you might want to ask how many colored people are in our territory and how they compare with the white population. Now, for instance, we have had a lot of talk here yesterday, about the Georgetown people. There are just as many colored people in Georgetown as there are white people. Mr. Roberts: You were in the Census Bureau for many years? Mr. Pelham: I was for 28½ years in the Census Bureau. Mr. Roberts: You made some inquiry? Mr. Pelham: Yes, I have the figures right here. They are about equally divided in the South- west section of the city. Our territory originally covered a lot of ground, because we organized our association in 1909, and we had a controversy with the Board of Education, about opening the Mott School. Mr. Roberts: I would rather you would not go outside of the strict PETER H. Mr. Pelham: We have 50,000 people in our area. Originally our area covered part of the same territory that Mr. Williams talked of this morning. ) After we organized and "got things through" the District Building and other places three other associations have organized there, the Central Northwest Citizens' Association, the Bloomingdale Citizens' Association, the Pleasant Plains Citizens' Association. I want to say to their credit they have one of the liveliest citizens' associations in the city. They publish a monthly publication. I got interested in this thing, personally, because I lost $25 one morning when it took me 26 minutes to get to a newspaper office where I have to go daily. I started on the warpath. I came to see Mr. Elgen two or three times. I went to the Capital Transit Company. One day I stayed three hours in their building. I think it was on the 13th of September, and at last I got to see Mr. Hanna — No, not Mr. Hanna, but Mr. Stephens. He gave me a nice reception. We talked it over. He asked me some questions as to what I would suggest as to a downtown route out to LaDroit Park. I haven't any route to advocate. If anybody wants to ask me any questions about it I will tell him what I think about any route proposed. As I say, I lost that $25 and I proposed to make it up. I started to write a series of articles. I did write them. I am going to submit them to the Capital Traction Company, through Mr. Elgen, for their benefit Mr. Roberts: Do you want these to accompany the record? Mr. Pelham: I am not particular about that. It is mainly for their information. I gave Mr. Hanna one yesterday. He read it very attentively and then he turned it over to Mr. Stephens. They are not caustic. In a sense they are constructive — they point out specific faults that hamper the car system in the city. Mr. Roberts: I am sure they will appreciate them Mr Pelham: I want to read part of a statement. I do not want to read it all, but I do want it to go into the record as written. I think there has been enough i uendo here to have this go in the record just as it is written. It may be caustic in places, but just the same I will stand by it. I know the rules of evidence. I have not been sworn but I am going to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Holding up a bunch of car passes Mr Pelham said, "I want to give the Transit Company due credit for service. We appreciate the pass service. I saw it in use in Minnesota 25 years ago." Mr. Pelham's Written Statement I appear before you this afternoon as a representative of the Howard Park Citizens' Association to give you some information and facts that are necessary for the records, if you are to give our appeals the proper consideration. I have lived in the area, I represent for 55 years. Love the Court. man of the Legislation Committee of that organization and have been since its organization in 1909. Originally, our membership was drawn from the area surrounding Howard University — within a radius of about three-quarters of a mile of that educational'institution. During the past few years, however, other citizen associations have been organized within this area, namely: The Pleasant Plains Citizens' Association, on the north; The 'central Northwest Citizens' Association; and The Bloomingdale Citizens Associations, to the south of Howard University I claim that in the membership of the Howard Park Citizens' Association and also in the membership of its three near neighbor associations, you will find as representative a cross section of American Citizens as can be found in any similar acreage in the District of Columbia. We are home-owners, taxpayers, and law-abiding citizens. We ask no especial favors. We are here in an appeal for equality of consideration for the benefits of a public utility. The record has been cluttered up with a lot of inundoes that should have been made "off the record," if at all. "When you reach the ball park, coming down the Georgia Avenue - Seventh Street line" you will find by a little investigation that we travel about the city just as other citizens, and that "the traffic that boards the cars at "U Street" is not all local. And we say most firmly that we want and must have as adequate transportation facilities as can be had by a municipal transit company furnishing a public and not a private service. Those that come here to advocate being furnished a private service can be better accommodated by the automobile companies. As for our part, we are willing to sit in the Capital Transit cars and buses and "See the Fords go by." You will find in "our area" and there are facts that you should give consideration when studying the record — Howard University, with its $4,000,000 worth of property, a student body of more than 2,000, attending a Medical School, a Dental School, a Pharmaceutical School, and a Graduate School, with 35 Ph.D.'s as instructors and 275 graduate students. Howard University's faculty consists of 276 teachers and professors — 60 of whom are white. Many of the student body of the university as well as members of its faculty live in other parts of the city Howard holds its games of baseball, football, and basketball, all attractive features, in its own stadium and gymnasium. Its cultural lectures and other educational functions often attract crowds that range from 100 to 1,500 and its Commencement exercises are attended by 5,000-persons from all parts of the city and distant points throughout the United States. Miner Teachers' College, on Georgia Avenue, between Howard Place and Euclid Street, has a student body of 750 and a teaching force of 47, who live in all parts of the city. Of the 720 students, 175 are "service teachers." Thess 175 have to report to the college in the morning and then travel—and mostly by street cars and buses—to the schools in which they are assigned to practice teaching. They are required to return to the college and report and again use the cars and buses to return to their homes. A branch of the Y. M. C. A. located in the 1800 block of Twelfth Street, has 75 resident members and has a weekly attendance of from 2,500 to 3,000 persons. A branch of the Y. W. C. A. at Rhode Island Avenue and Ninth Street has 50 resident members and a weekly attendance of from 1,000 to 1,200. These groups all come from all parts of the city. Freedmen's Hospital, just south of Howard University, in addition to its nonresident operating force and doctors is the objective point for thousands every month, and most of them ride on cars and buses, going to and fro. The Columbia Lodge of Efts Home, at Rhode Island Avenue and Third Street, with an average of some 3,000 to 5,000, the majority of whom depend upon the street cars and buses for service. With 30 churches, six large theatres, drawing crowds from all parts of the city; and the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School, at Vermont Avenue and U Street; the Shaw Junior High School, at Rhode Island Avenue and Seventh Street; the Cardozo Business High School at Rhode Island Avenue and Ninth Street, attended by thousand and from all parts of the District; the Commission and the Transit Company must give due attention and consideration to the transportation needs of these several groups. The Garnet-Patterson Junior High School has a roster of 1056 pupils and a teaching force of 24, in the evening school, in addition to the day school of 1100 pupils and 40 teachers. Then again, our children as well as children from all parts of the District attend the Dunbar High School at First and O Streets; and the Armstrong High School at P and First Street. The Dunbar having 1402 pupils and 50 teachers and the Armstrong 1550 pupils and 67 teachers, officers and councillers. It is true that most of BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL these teachers have their own cars, but the counsellors find it more convenient to travel about the city in street cars and busses. Very nearly all of the students ride the cars and buses of the Transit Company, as do the members of the Masonic Shrine on Eleventh Street and the Musolit Club on R Street. And now let's examine the record as to just how we in the LeDroit Park area of the Howard Park Citizens area have been treated since the Capital Traction Company changed its name to the Capital Transit Company. I have not been sworn, but I am conversant with the rules of evidence and I want to read into the record "the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth." To start with, let me say that in our territory you will find that all the verbal bricks are not thrown at the Capital Transit Company. The Public Utilities Commission comes in for a goodly share of the adverse criticism; and for this reason: Before the merer, we had fairly good transit facilities that allowed us to gog out and return to our homes. Soon after the merger, the Public Utilities Commission very precipitously allowed the abandonment of the LeDroit Park Street car service. With little or no regard for our rights or desires the "banana line" — so called by our children because the cars generally ran in bunches — was thrown into the dissard. The Capital Transit Company furnished what they called a substitute — a bus loop that was soon dubbed the "Nixie" line — because at times the bus did not run at all. After one break-down of bus No. 206, I with others, waited for forty-five THE BROADWAY minutes for a replacement. Here is some history that speaks for itself: Under date of December 27, 1934, by order No. 1311, the Public Utilities Commission "authorized and directed a bus service to operate over a loop beginning at the intersection of Sevonth and S Streets, Northwest, thence north on Seventh Street to T Street to Fourth Street, north on Fourth to Bryant Street, east on Bryant Street to Second Street, south on Second Street to Rhode Island Avenue, and went on Rhode Island Avenue, and west on Rhode Island beginning." This service was to be operated with a maximum base headway of ten minutes and a maximum rush headway of five minutes. The fare and transfer privileges for this service shall be the same as those for the superseded street car service. For more than eight months the Transit Comptray had failed to maintain the stipulated ten minute service on the LeDroit Park bus line; and both the Public Utilities Commission and the Capital Transit Company were showered with complaints about the short-comings of the "one bus" line service. These complaints covered a wide range — from "dirty buses," to overcrowding in poorly ventilated buses — some of which vehicles had seen service since 1922. Query after query was made to the Public Utilities Commission as to how much longer the transit company was going to ask its patrons to wait for a more up-to-date service and better equipment. The Rev. D. E. Wiseman, president of the Howard Park Citizens' Association, of 300 W Street, Northwest and Mrs. Jaqueline Cuney, president of the Bloomingdale Citizens' Association, of 184 Seaton Place, Northwest, both received many complaints about the shabby accommodations on the bases. Complaints abud seats with broken springs and torn cushions, lack of convenient strap hangers, or handles on the seats to support the standees overrowding in poorly ventilated buses — some of which have been in service since 1922; and no route or designation signs on the buses. The Commission in its order of December said: "The car line which is the subject of abandonment has been in existence for many years. The population and transportation demands of the LeDroit Park area have changed; and there is an opportunity for improvement in general transportation. The bus service herein ordered is a temporary measure pending the issuance by this Commission of its general re- ROBERT A PELHAM routing order, "The abandonment of tracts and the substitution of bus service will result in improved service and in "operating economies" and will, therefore, be in the public interest." It is quite clear that the abandonment of this line saved the transit company thousands of dollars in operating expenses monthly; while the substitute the public was expected to "put up" with was operated at an expense of not more than $600 per month. But the clarity of the Commissions statement that "the population and transportation demands of the LeDroit Park area have changes;" was and still is the subject of some speculation. Inquiry of Mr. Elgen, chairman of the Commission, as to what the Commission meant by the statement, fail-answer. ed to elicit a comprehensive Gentlemen. It is more than surprising to come here to this important hearing of the Public Utilities Commission hearing on Capital Transit Company's service and find the records so barren of the true facts — illustrative of the inadequate car and bus service into, across, and out of the LeDroit Park area, which is within the area of the Howard Park Citizens Association and serves also the Central Northwest Citizens Association and the Bloomingdale Citizens' Association — and the true facts as they relate to our appeals for better transportation facilities. The check-up shown by Mr. Segar in chart No. 5. Exhibit No. 1 will be of little value to anyone seeking to study the actual conditions and the inaequate transportation facilities furnished on Florida Avenue and U Street to Eighteenth Street and beyond to Rock Creek Bridge. It is difficult to understand why the Check-up was made at New Jersey Avenue and Florida Avenue. Two blocks west of the junction point where hundreds every hour, are forced to transfer from Florida Avenue cars to North-bound New Jersey Avenue cars and when there are often more standees in the New Jersey Avenue cars bound west than there are passengers seated. The same conditions are true at Eleventh Street, where passengers bound east on many cars are forced to transfer to the New Jersey Avenue east-bound cars from Rock Creek Bridge or be carried down Eleventh Street And again, the list of complaints about the LeDroit Park line set out by Mr Martin in Exhibit No. 6, is far from the actual facts. The first complaint noted is dated (August 2, 1935.) The truth is that the complaints — hundreds of them poured into the Public Utility Commission, the District Commission, and the Capital Transit Company since February 1935. I see by the record that I am listed as having sent in a written complaint on September 14, complaining about "Service and objects to route past Mott School." The facts are that I called as a newspaper man to inquire of Mr. Eigen as to what the Commission had done in the matter of the rereouting of the buses of the LeDroit Park line so that the buses would not run along two sides of Mott School; and also, to ask why the Capital Transit Cmpany was not required to give the bus service as called for in Order No.1311. In February, just after the bus loop was established, the Howard Park Citizens' Association and the Bloomingdale Citizens' Association called attention to the hazard to the large number of children attending the Mott School, and sought a re-routing of the line, to avoid passing the school on both the Fourth and the Bryant Street sides. The First Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Garnet C, Wilkinson, supported by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, Superintendent, and a unanimous vote of the board of Education, also sought to have a rereouting to avoid passing the Mott School Charles H. Houston, then a member of the Board of Education, was appointed a committee of one to confer with the Public Utilities Commission in the matter. In March, accompanied by Miss Mary E. Shorter, principal of the Mott School, and Leon L. Perry, supervising principal of Divisions 10 to 13, Mr. Houston visited the Commission, wought to have an order issued re-routing the bus line from Fourth and V Streets, east to Second Street, thus avoiding the bus passing the Mott School, both on Fourth and Bryant Streets No satisfactory agreement was reached and for months the buses continued to run around two sides of the Mott School building. No mention of the Board of Education action is listed in Exhibit No. 6. This re-routing seriously affected the usefulness of the make-shift bus route to hundreds of citizens who used the line to get to main lines of the Transit Company on Florida Avenue, New Jersey Avenue, Seventh Street, and cars on U Street, and Ninth Street. A petition signed by upwards of 300 people is on file in the Utilities Commission office from citizens north of Howard University, petitioning that the "LeDroit Park loop line be extended to reach Columbia road north of the university. This petition is not listed in Exhibit No. 6. New York curio dealer collects saxophones. Here's hoping he will keep 'em President Johnson Sends Answer To Petition of Student Council Students Protest Moving of Law School to Campus; Say Students Should Have Home Economics Building for Student Union Building 1882 1986 A Merry Duletide TO ALL OUR FRIENDS Serving Washington for More Than Half a Century ENJOYING A TIME-TRIED REPUTATION BARNES and MATTHEWS FUNERAL DIRECTORS 614 4th St., S.W. Met. 9643 THREE Recognizing that the moving of Howard Law School to the university campus during the Christmas holidays will result in inconveniences to the undergraduate students and teachers of the undergraduate division of the university, Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson president of the University, in a letter to the president of the Student Council, declared that the decision was made by the Board of Trustees to meet the emergency of the law school situation. Move Urgent "The immediate educational necessities of the School of Law, by reason of its connection with and commitments to the American Bar Association of Law Schools, require that the physical quarters of this school be moved to the main campus of the university during the current school year," the president wrote. "After the consideration of all available space for the purpose, the Trustees decided that the Home Economics Building was the only building on the main campus which could accommodate the School of Law at this time. The main building—the only other alternative is scheduled to be displaced by the new library building at the earliest possible date," the president's letter contained. To Work Out Program President Johnson suggested that the Student Council go into consultation with the Faculty Committee on Student Activities at the earliest possible convenience, in order to secure their help in working out a systematic program for the accommodation of the social life of the students during the current year. That the program agreed to by the joint conference suggested would reach the Trustees for approval. was promised in the Johnson letter. "The moving of the School of Alexandria at Random By JOHN (ART) STANDON The Lyles-Crouch School, located on the southwest corner of Pitt and Wilkes Streets, will be the scene of a dance promoted by the Bohemians Social Club on the night of Friday, December 20. Music will be furnished by Louis Brown's orchestra. The proceeds from the dance will be turned over to the Parent-Teacher Association of the school. --- Listen Public, have you seen "Peggy?" Well, Peggy is a beautiful colored doll. now, being displayed in the windows of Jones Drug Store, 301 Alfred Street The mothers club of Parker-Gray School are sponsoring the raffling of the doll to raise funds for the fifth grade. * * * * Flora Proctor, Dunbar High senior, was seen in the vicinity of Jones Drug Store with Douglas Williams of Gum Springs, Friday afternoon. --- Pedo, you should not have folks uptown worried about you being with someone on the hill. It is too cold to walk around all alone, this near Christmas. ***** What do you think of Otto Tucker, trying to convince the local boys that Howard University does not have what he calls a football team. Well, the lad has not seen anything but a few high school games, and those from the Howard bench. Tuck probably justifies himself by saying that he does not call himself a football player. I would advise a fellow who thinks this way not to accept a uniform and keep some fellow who thinks he can play the game on the sidelines. **** From the auditorium of the Parker-Gray High School, where the upper classes was host at a card party and prom. Friday night, we bring a few highlights. From eight to ten p.m. card playing held sway; with two of the city's ranking players, James Henderson and Prof. W. D. Elam, showing their wares. Sitting next to the world's noisiest drummer (C. Dean), I see Morris Murray wielding an improvised baton in front of the orchestra. Morris gave the dancers a show Law to the Home Economics Building will undoubtedly result in some inconvenience to the students in the matter of their social affairs as well as to some of the teachers in the undergraduate divisions of the university. I hope that these inconveniences will be borne in the fullest possible cooperation until the temporary emergency is resolved." Dr. Johnson wrote. Council Protests The letter from President Johnson followed a request from James Washington, president of the Student Council, that the university president meet the student body in a mass meeting and explain why their petition to the Board of Trustees to grant the use of the Home Economics Building for a student union building for the undergraduates was not given favorable consideration. The student body of the university had protested vigorously to having the law school move on the campus to occupy the Home Economics Building on the ground that it would mean the abandonment of the old dining room which is now being used as a ball room for the university dances. The fact that individuals are not permitted on the gymnasium floor with shoes on was advanced as argument that the students would have no place to conduct their social entertainment's if the Home Economics Building was resolved into a law school. Gym To Be Used Since the Trustees have approved the request of Dean William E. Taylor, of the law school, to permit the law school to move on the campus and occupy that building during the remaining part of the shool year. V. D. Johnston, treasurer of the university, has announced that student dances will be permitted in the university gymnasium. CCC TRAINS 4,339 TO READ CAMPS STILL CONTAINED 7,369 ILLITERATES ON JUNE 30, REPORT SAYS During the fiscal year ended June 30, 4339 illiterate men in CCC camps were taught to read and write, according to a report received Saturday by Robert Fechner. CCC director There were still 7,369 illiterates in the camps at that date, representing 1.9 per cent of the total enrollment, the report indicated. Of these, 5,406 were induced to take part in an instruction program, 3,607 in classes and 1,799 receiving individual training, according to Howard C. Oxley, director of CCC camp education. An illiterate was defined as an enrolled man who could not read a newspaper or write a letter. "It was found that 78 percent of the illiterates were under 25 years of age, 5 per cent between 26 and 35 years of age and 16 per cent over 35," Mr. Oxley wrote Director Fechner. "Approximately 96 per cent of the illiterate enrollees were born in the United States and only 4 per cent were of foreign birth" a-la-Tiny Bradshaw, noise, etc., included. Courtney Dean, the drummer rates scallions. You must remember that Dean is a good actor and furthermore, has played as a member of dance bands at some of the amusement places along the coast of New Jersey. Everybody admits Dean is a bit noisy, but so is Chick Webb The dance was a success for R. Lane and H. Turner. For a change the lads were able to play without casting wistful eyes at their respective. Eudora Lee and the other members of the Capitol Band are fast rounding into a well balanced unit which will be a credit to the home town. At the stroke of twelve the strains of the Capitol theme song brought to a close an evening of fun. Joe Louis kayoed the Bounding Basque in the fourth round of their fight. Incidently, this was bad news for Newman who lost a couple of wagers to J. S. and D. C. R. W Gaddis was seen leaving the dance with D. Pierce, just imagine! THE FEDERAL MILITARY COMMUNION Globe Dry Cleaners and Dyers, Inc. Wish to Our Patrons and Many Friends the Heartiest Merry Christmas Fine Cleaning at a Saving Direct from Plant to You 923-925 Florida Ave., N.W. Phone North 0490 POLICE ASKED TO EXPLAIN ATTITUDE Colorado Springs Citizens Seek to Have Police Explain Inter-race Stand COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (By ANP)—After learning that Inspector I. B. Bruce of the local police department stated to certain Negro citizens he had the names and addresses of all colored men and boys, keeping company with white women, the local branch of the N.A.A.C.P. has asked that Bruce furnish the association "with the names of all white men keeping company with colored women." This request is contained in a resolution addressed to Chief of Police Hugh D. Harper. The resolution says further: "We would like for the inspector to explain to us why he allows colored women of questionable character to approach white men on the streets of our city, and when our better class of women report to them about white men following and molesting them either day or night these women are in turn insulted or ridiculed by the police department." The association also wants to know why white men can't be arrested for insults to colored women when Negro men are arrested for insults to white women, and what reason police officers call colored women "wenches and prostitutes" regardless of character, Charles Banks is chairman of the committee handling this matter. EDUCATION CLUB MEETS RICHMOND. Va.-The Education Club of Virginia Union University held its second meeting of the current year. Tuesday, in the lecture room of Hartshorn Hall. The Education Club is made up of seniors who have elected education as an associate major and who will enter the teaching profession. VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE RALEIGH, N.C.—Principals and vocational guidance experts from all sections of North Carolina attended the second annual personnel conference of principals of North Carolina high schools which was held at Shaw University, December 6, 7, 8, to discuss principles and techniques of vocational guidance. CHE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1935 Photographed above is a group of Lechtman Theatre managers of the District, Virginia and North Carolina, who were guests at a Christmas party, held at the Capital Pleasure Club last week. Each manager received a Christmas check. Sorors Honor Mary McLeod Bethune NEW YORK (ANP)—Members of the Theta Chapter of the lotia Lamoda Sorority took time out at the regular monhti- meeting to pay homage to Mrs. Mary McLeod bethune, president of the Bethune College and one of the most influential women of the country here Monday evening. Mrs. Bethune is an honorary member of the sorority composed of women engaged in commercial pursuits, and as guest of honor in a short talk outlined just what was expected of the young women of the group in education and in the business world. Five pledges were present at the meeting and told of their activities. Among those present at the meeting were: L. K. Williamson, Elsie Keller; Gladys Parker; Clara Wel's, Lurenia Hankinson; Sari Price Patten; Bernice Cross, Violet Viles; Margaret Cross; Marion Durant; Julian Ryan, Amelia Nero; Ida Mae Ryan; Dorothy Pruitt; Emma Taylor; Dorothy Saunders; Ruby Madden Luscombe, Roberta E. Flowers; Audrey, Ross; Eloise Sparks, Florence Bacote; Anise Cotton; Nettie Pinkard; Amy E. Thompson and Irma N. Doar. Wide Interest is Shown in Contest for Accounts of Foreign-Born Negroes ATLANTA, Ga.—Widespread interest has been evidenced in the contest for the best accounts of the actual experiences of foreign-born Negroes in the United States, which is being conducted by the department of sociology of Atlanta University. Three awards of $100, $75 and $50 are being offered for the best accounts written by any colored or Negro person, born outside of the United States or in the Virgin Islands prior to 1917, or by the children of foreign-born parents. All entries must be in the hands of Prof. Ira De A. Reid at Atlanta University by February 1, 1936. Approximately 200,000 persons in the United States are eligible to compete for these prizes, according to Professor Reid. The 1930 census showed that 98,620 Negroes in this country were foreign born, and 17,625 were born in the United States possessions. If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could y any possibility marry.—O. W. Holmes. Harvard Liquor Store 2901 Sherman Ave., N.W. Wishes You A Merry Christmas AVOID The Downtown Rush and Parking Problems! Plenty of Parking Space Near Our Store WE CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF NATIONALLY ADVERTISED LIQUORS, WINES AND CORDIALS AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES We Deliver Free. Call Col. 3040-3041-9755 Open All Day Christmas Oklahoma Legislature Votes Scholarships OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A bill providing for the payment of a maximum of $250 per school year to colored students in the state of Oklahoma, who are not able to secure college and graduate courses in the schools provided by the state, has been passed by the Oklahoma legislature. Oklahoma, by this action, joins Maryland, West Virginia and Missouri in providing out of state tuition. A preliminary examination of the Oklahoma law seems to indicate that it is the most generous of the four. The Maryland law has been called very inadequate; the Missouri law is better than nothing; but provides little more than assistance; the West Virginia law is the oldest one of the four and has been functioning fairly well. Harlem Democrats Plan Victory Ball NEW YORK. (ANP) — A Victory Ball, the proceeds of which will go to feed the hungry of the district was sponsored by the Beavers-Ramapo Democratic Club, on Thursday, December 19, at the Renaissance Ballroom, according to Guy R. Brewer, secretary of the club. "No organization has ever put aut a finer souvenir journal, than that the Beaver-Ramapo Club, through this medium, we hope to raise sufficient funds to feed many of the hungry folk of our district and make Christmas a real day for rejoicing for them." Miss Marie Brown, associated with the group since its inception is one of the moving spirits of the Victory Ball, Bacon Elected Georgia State Club President At the monthly meeting of the Georgia State Club, held Thursday evening, the following officers were elected: S. B. Bacon, president; Miss Willie D. Williams, first vice-president; George W. Welch, second vice-president; Mr. Olive L. Handy, recording secretary; Mrs. Carrie O. Smith, financial secretary; James McClennon, treasurer; Ed Smith, chaplain. Board of directors: J. A. Handy, Mrs. Jennie O. Simms, Mrs. Hattie T. Lockhart and Mrs. Beatrice Denmark. Reports of the various committees were read, and after the business session, refreshments were served. Installation of officers, and reception, will be held at the next meeting. A free nation is one where nothing is free. Dr. Mary Waring Assails the New National Council of Colored Women Charges Organization Organized by Mrs. Bethune Segregated Group BATTLE WHICH MAY REVERBATE THROUGHOUT WOMEN'S CLUBS THREATENED CHICAGO, (By ANP) — Announcement of the formation in New York City last week of the National Council of Colored Women brought quick response as well as disapproval expressed in no uncertain terms from Dr. Mary F. Waring, president of the National Association of Colored Women, the organization which at present is the largest organized body among Negro women. Dr. Waring sees no need for the new council, charging that it smacked of segregation, in that Negro women were already able to belong to the National Council of Women of the United States and hinted that it also represented sabotage against the N.A.C.W. since most of the women named as active in launching the new group were at one time and many still are, prominent in the National Association of Colored Women. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune was singled out in Dr Waring's statement, because the New York gathering had met at Mrs. Bethune's call. The suggestion was conveyed that the disaffection of some of the new group, grew out of the defeat of Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, principal of Sedalia Institute in North Carolina for the presidency of the N.A.C.W. at Cleveland last year. The fight was a spirited one. Mrs. Bethune was Mrs. Brown's floor manager. Dr. Waring was selected and indirectly infers that the occasion has not been forgotten Why Form a Council? "Why," asked Dr. Waring here Thursday, "should a National Council of Colored Women be formed? We have one organization the National Council of Women of Darker Races. It was founded by Mrs. Booker T. Washington and Mrs. Bethune is one of its most prominent members "It was away back in 1900, thirty-five years ago, that Mrs. Mary Church Terrell electrified the National Council of Women by her address at their convention in Minneapolis. Mrs. Mary Talbert, Mrs. Terrell, Mrs. Addie Hunton; Miss Nannie Burroughs; Mrs. Booker T. Washington and others have attended their meetings, and in 1932 Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart served as vice-preident of the National Council of Women. "In 1920 Mrs. Mary B. Talbert and I represented the National Council of Women of the United States, which includes bot' white and colored, as delegates to the Norway meeting of the International Council of Women, In 1930 Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart; as a delegate and Miss Meta Pelham as alternate, together with the following associate members; Mrs. L. C. Jefferson; Mrs. Emma Burris Miller, Miss Jane Hunter; Mrs. Nellie Weaver Greene, Mrs. Cora M. Allen; Miss Hallie Q. Brown and Mrs. S. Joe Brown., attended all the functions and participated in the proceedings in Vienna, Austria. Opposes Segregation "Now, why in the name of good judgment should any woman seek to form a separate council?" Let us beware of what we do unless we walk backward. It is hard to make progress always beginning. If the National Council of Women of Darker Races, of which Mrs. Bethune is a charter member; and the National Association BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL Merry Christmas And Very Best Wishes LINCOLN LIQUOR SHOP POPULAR PRICED AND RARE WINES -- LIQUORS -- BEERS FREE PROMPT DELIVERY 1301 YOU ST., N.W. Telephone NO. 5700 ALL WASHINGTON TRIBUNE NEWSBOYS ARE INVITED TO THE Tribune Christmas Party TO BE HELD ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26 AT 2.00 P. M. AT THE Y. M. C. A., 1816 12TH ST., N.W. A TRIBUNE PROJECT SPONSORED BY THE CIRC. DEPT. ```markdown ``` of Colored Wome . , if which she is president; cannot be developed to their fullest stature, why dissipate the strength of our present organizations by forming a new one? "The cowning achievement of Mrs. Bethune as president of the N.A.C.W. was the purchase of six quarters in Washington, D.C. That project is heavily incumbered financially, although our women have sacrificed time and money for it. If we are to finish this task, there will be little time for a separate council. "I do not believe Negroes should segregate themselves. When we were in New York some time ago, Mrs. Bethune was refused service in the Waldorf-Astoria dining room. She very properly raised a furore. The management sought Dr. Waring, and the matter was arranged to the satisfaction of Mrs. Bethune. She ate her lunch. Now she seeks to form a separate council of Negro women. We should be consistent. Admires Mrs. Bethune "I am an admirer of Mrs. Bethune! She is a wman of great ability. However, we do not need any separate council; and I believe the majority of colored club women and women generally will agree with me. Mrs. Bethune has been as far as she can go in the National Association of Colored Women. It was born as a protest against segregation. We have won the battle. We should beware of forming organizations based on color. Our ideal should consider, not what is our color; but our ability to achieve." Among the women at the meeting in New York where the National Council of Colored Women was projected were: Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington; Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown; Sedalia, N.C.; Mrs. Addie W. Hunton; New York; Mrs. Addie W. Dickerson, Philadelphia; Mrs. Daisy Lampkin, Pittsburgh; Mrs. Cordelia A. Winn; New York; Mrs. Clara B. Bruce, New York; Mrs. Harriet Shadd Butcher, Mrs. Lillian Alexander; Mrs. Carita V. Roane, Mrs. Ruth Roberts, Miss Eva D. Bowles; Mrs. A. Clayton Powell, Sr.; Mrs. Belle Davis; Mrs. C. C. Saunders, and Mrs. Awarded Fellowship A. NEW YORK—Dr. Chester W. Chinn, associate visiting ophthalmologist at the Harlem Hospital and a 1933 diplomat of the American Board of Ophthalmology, was named this week as the recipient of the Oberlaender Trust Fellowship for 1936. The fellowship entitles the holder to a year's study abroad. Dr. Chinn is the fourth Negro to receive the honor. Others who have received the fellowship are Dr. Aldrich Burton, Philadelphia; Dr. Freeman, Washington, and Dr. De Haven Hinkson, Philadelphia. The popular Harlem physician announced that he would divide his fellowship year between Berlin and Vienna, studying diseases of the eye, nose, and throat. Julia Coleman Robinson, of New York. The purposes of the organization were announced as "to unite all organizations and individuals in an effort to disseminate information concerning the activities and methods of organized Negro womanhood and to be a voice for Negro people when and where needed. Why go to the movies to see pettish love scenes? Create your own love scenes in your own home with your own wife or husband. FOUR Published Semi-Weekly at Washington, D.C., by THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. 920 U Street, N.W. Phone, Potomac 1667 Entered as second-class matter, July 7, 1922, at the Post Office at 1000 North Main under the Date of March 8, 1879 That the Roosevelt administration has chosen Thomas H. R. Clarke, lieutenant of Spanish-American War days, lawyer, former District national guardsman, ex-member of the staff of the Register of the Treasury, real estate operator, local clubman, orator and author, to fill the post of deputy recorder of deeds in the District, shows wisdom beyond most of its other appointments. Subscription Rates: One Year, $2.50; Six Months $1.25; Three Months, 65c. For sale at all news stands, s cents per copy. Advertising rates furnished on request TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1935 That Proposed Negro Congress If we could believe that any "Congress of Negroes" would actually consider those propositions vital to the progress of our group in this country, we would be overjoyed and enthusiastic in supporting it. But long and bitter experience teaches us that long-winded speeches will be made by publicity seekers who are able to pay publicity agents, who will rush them to white newspapers, both to show the big bosses how they stand and to give that flattering unction to their souls which comes from hearing some fair adulator say. "I saw that article about you in the Bladder." As a distinctly local office, that of recorder of deeds calls for a man familiar with local realty operations, and Lieut. Clarke has such qualifications because of his long connection with such business in the downtown area, not as an uptown branch of some bank outlet. His judgment as an appraiser of realty values was recognized by millionaire dealers in such collateral. His own investments always indicated vision as to Washington's future, and his long residence here in his native city makes him familiar with the background of many movements. He is well known to realty dealers, and his commanding presence and informed statements of facts serve to carry great weight. Like most actions by minority groups in a majority dominion, any "Congress of Negroes" will have its spies for the majority, and will have its tacticians who will pass results to the country "for revenue only." Lieutenant Clarke, as a supporter of the administration, will carry additional weight with colored citizens outside of Washington because he is known throughout the middle West, in the North and on the Coast, is a forceful speaker, and such a defender of our Americanism that his word will be respected. In the first place, "human rights" will come in for major consideration, while "property rights" will be basic only to those delegates who will go broke, be stranded, and make a touch to get back home. Any Congress of Negroes will have to make compromises because of sectional differences and numbers, just as the original Congress which enacted the Constitution into a basic document. Although keeping in the background in the last campaign, he was both the brains and courage of the colored Big-Four, and his tardy recognition by the administration places him in a most satisfactory position for himself and the District. As one of the few living here, with a metropolitan aspect and standards, Lieutnant Clarke may bring the recorder's office into that position it would occupy in any other city handling records of the value represented by its business here in Washington. Any Congress of Negroes will have its better informed men and its monied delegates who will have greater weight than mere numbers, but the wide differences in language values and the general predominance of experience in religious meetings will see little of practical value evolved. Like most other conventions and congresses, the sessions will end with certain people being elected to offices and thus posing as Negro leaders of "twelve million American Negroes," to be "approached" by the dominant people in the next national campaign. Northern cities will hold their Southern ern brethren as tails to their kites, and the real problems of the South, which are economic ones, will be no more considered than they have been in education or any other phase of our life. What will the Negro congress do about the break-up of big plantations into plots to be sold to tenant farmers and sharecroppers, now that the soil is poor and cotton losing its American dominance to foreign cotton raisers? What will be done about decent schools beyond publishing the statistics to show discrimination, and what will be done about getting Negro children and adults into schools, if provided? What will be done about merging scattered Negro churches that drain the energies, money and social power of Negro numbers? What will be done about Negro health and vital statistics beyond making elaborate reports? Will that Congress set up a Negro department of health in every state where Negroes live, and teach them how to clean-up and live, instead of making a religion of dying? Father Divine has been called "Harlem's God." He came to Harlem from Alabama and boldly proclaimed himself as God incarnate in the flesh. There he soon gathered around him a group of adherents and disciples who accepted him at his own self appraisement and who lived by every word which proceeded from his mouth. There have been many prophets in the history of religion who claimed inspiration from on "High." The founders of new religious cults abound among all peoples in all kinds of lands and at all times. They are most apt to appear at the break down of existing regime and among people who are downcast and heavy laden. When they find little hope in low grounds of sorrow in the world which is here and now, they cladly seek escape in the promised land beyond the skies. They are easily persuaded to follow any leader, genuine or guileful, who claims to have heard the heavenly voice and caught the heavenly vision. Among the Negro people the appearance of such spiritual reformers as the late prophet Crowdy, Father Divine and Elder Michaux shows plainly a religious restlessness and dissatisfaction with the regular orthodox church, which are easily failing to meet the spiritual needs of the masses. The holiness meetings and store-front churches are both a challenge that lense and a warning to our religious leaders that their mission is to reach and to save, even unto the utmost. Failing to do this, they need not be surprised that these new spiritual movements are springing up all over the country. What will be done about interstate commerce, which would make Negro farmers of the South prosperous by supplying Negroes of the North with their native foods, did a few college-trained Negroes know something else besides what is in books, fraternal gatherings for purposes of publicity and constant repetition about this and that academic degree manufactured by the modern degree mills which turn them out by processes of mass-production? A few more motor trucks and a few less wasteful motor cars hauling inconsequential people up and down, but nowhere in particular, would distribute goods and money among those who have what others want and now run to the corner store to buy from hand to mouth. A few quiet investigations would reveal what could be manufactured and sold at profits far beyond the can and wrapped and packaged goods we now call Negro business. The December 11th issue of the Christian Century contains an interesting analysis of Father Divine and his method by an understanding and sympathetic student of religious phenomena who, like the curious visitor to the church of the Village Parson, came to scoff but remained to pray. Father Divine and the ardent disciples which he has gathered about him, represent a culture lag in the history of religion and take us back to the childhood stage when the human race was nearer the level of primitivity. It is true that Father Divine and his flock seem picturesque and bizzare and strike many onlookers as merely a burlesque of religion, but this grows out of the fact that the setting is entirely out of harmony with the time, place and circumstances. A Negro congress will be "an imperium in imperial" and have about as much consequence as some convention of the "Sons and Daughters of I Do Arise." Railroads, gas stations, eating houses, liquor dealers, installment clothes dealers will benefit, of course, just as they do when the masses come downtown to parades or travel to expositions, but Negro newspapers will receive reams of "copy" to send out at cost to themselves for every letter that is printed. Nothing will be done to make the Negro a more intelligent factor in national economy, and that is the only language common to both groups in America. To paranhrase Shakespeare, negatively. "They will not together, clubs will part them." Generations of ex- THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1935 perience in splitting churches and societies will be hard to overcome. We await the outcome. Our Readers' Opinions A CHRISTMAS WISH Lieut. Thomas H. R. Clarke Chosen If I could make a wish come true, It would not be for things, But that your ears be turned o hear The rush of angel's wings. If I could in the coming year Make any wish come true, I'd ask the Christ to breathe His peace Into the heart of you. MARIE SMITH INZER SONNET TO A NEGRO IN HARLEM You are disdainful and magnificent— Your perfect body and your pompous gait, your dark eyes flashing solemnly with hate, Small wonder that you are incompetent I imitate those whom you so despise— Your shoulders towering high above the throng, Your head thrown back in rich, barbaric song, Palm trees and mangoes stretched before your eyes. At others toil and sweat for labor's sake And wring from grasping hands their meed of gold Why urge ahead your supercillious feet? Corn will elace each footprint that you make. Love your laughter arrogant and bold. You are too splendid for this city street. —HELENE JOHNSON. You are disdainful and magnificent— Your perfect body and your pompous gait. Your dark eyes flashing solemnly with hate. Small wonder that you are incompetent To imitate those whom you so despise— Your shoulders towering high above the throng. Your head thrown back in rich, barbaric song. Palm trees and mangoes stretched before your eyes. Let others toil and sweat for labor's sake And wring from grasping hands their meed of gold. Why urge ahead your supercilious feet? Scorn will enface each footprint that you make. I love your laughter arrogant and bold. You are too splendid for this city street. —HELEN JOHNSON Other Papers Say HUGH M. DORSEY AGAIN (By William Pickens for ANP) More than ten years ago Miss Mary Whiteington casually remarked: "Dorsey is a dog man." Dorsey, judget in Georgia, who has just ruled that the law under which Angelo Brandon was sentenced to the chain gang, is (By William Pickens for ANP) More than ten years ago Miss Mary White Ovington casually remarked: "Dorsey is a big man." Dorsey, judging in Georgia, who has just ruled that the law under which Angelo Herdon was sentenced to the chain gang, is unconstitutional, was at the time Miss Ovington made the remark, the governor of Georgia. An old colored man of 70-odd years had been lynched for TRYING TO PREVENT RAPE,—of course, trying to prevent several white gentlemen from raping some little colored girls. Hugh M. Dorsey got so righteously angry about this particular lynching that he wrote a scathing pamphlet against the whole rotten lynch business, giving names, dates, places in Georgia. It was a terrific indictment of the crime. The pamphlet was reprinted and widely circulated. Now Hugh M. Dorssey has come out "big" again in this Herndon Case. But it costs to be big in this little world,—and especially in Georgia,—and more especially in matters concerning the Negro race. Years ago when Dorssey made his famous attack on lynching, we knew that it would hinder his political advancement. Governors of southern states are usually headed for the United States Senate, or other national honors, after they retire as governors. Dorssey did not get to the senate. He did manage to become a judge in Georgia. But this effort to rescue civilization from a savage law there will likely stand in his way again. We hope he gets satisfaction out of BEING BIG, for that is the most he will get out of it. We hope, with Herndon, that the Supreme Court of Georgia will agree with Dorssey. If not, we hope the United States Supreme Court will agree with Dorssey. We shall soon see. The fool law under which Herndon has been convicted is a menace to white as well as to black in Georgia.—and Dorsey is trying to save the whites there. But whites often prefer to "stay down in the ditch, with the Negro under them," rather than to get out of the ditch and let the Negro out at the same time. Herndon will either set civilization forward in Georgia, or set it back. We shall soon see. ifestations are most apt to originate. This is not a question of race but of evolution.Father Divina has white as well as Negro adherents and disciples, all of whom are near to the same culture level. Jesus, who is the superlative representative of God embodied in the flesh, demanded of His sophisticated disciples that they "Suffer little children to come unto me; for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." And again, "Unless you become as a little child, ye can in no wise enter the Kingdom of Heaven." The proud and haughty individuals, nations and races who boast of their culture and civilization must needs divest themselves of much of their boasted culture and fall back upon an earlier and more primitive level of the child soul before they can experience the unction and zest of spiritual exhilation. Herein lies the Negro's superlative advantage for the spiritual leadership of this day and generation. It may not be deemed blasphemy to exhort the proud and mighty of our day and generation: "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, unless ye become as the Negro in soul disposition ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven." But what of the disciples of Father Divine when they become disillusioned as to his Messiahship? Alas, this is the tragic contemplation which all religious movements must sooner or later confront. When research and curiosity of science found no place for the gods on M: Olympus, they were banished to the sky and given names among the stars. When the modern telescope found no place for them in the solar system, Saturn, Jupiter and Juno, divine personages who once lived among, and mingled with mortals were reduced to an abstraction of mythology and spectaculation. This anachronous movement would seem to be more fitting in the heart of Africa than in the heart of Harlem. Instincts, among which religious feeling takes first rank, are imbedded in the substratum of human nature. The lower down we go, the easier it is stirred. For this reason, religion is always more ardently manifested among the meek and lowly than among the high and mighty. Father Divine and his flock represent an interesting laboratory for the observation of religion in the making. They operate on the psychological level not far above that of primitive man. Father Divine himself may be self-deluded in his divine presumptions; but this does not necessarily vitiate his genuiness and sincerity. For prophets and spiritual leaders of all times have been considered "God-mad." It was said of the Saviour Himself that "The zeal of thy house has eaten thee up." Only those of shallow understanding and littleness of soul will look upon Father Divine and his movements with defision and scorn. He merely gives us a picture of a stage in the history of religious evolution. The unsophisticated child-like man can only grasp things divine and spiritual when they assume embodiment in fleshly form. Disillusionment awaits them all. When the third and fourth generation of Father Divine's disciples have been exposed to the educational opportunities of New York City and to the sophisticated life of that environment, will they hold to the simple faith and credulity of their mere untutored and child-like forbears? Probably not. Such is the story of all religion. As the generations grew wiser they become less credulous, revelent and devout. But in the meantime, Father Divine is bringing the true function of religion to submerged Harlem, a folk without employment or income. A group without outlook can only look upwards. Father Divine in his simple, unsophisticated way, is bringing succor to the suffering, soace to the sorrowing, and is preaching glad ridings to the poor. The common people hear him gladly. If the gospel which he brings to them soothes and satisfies their unsophisticated souls for the day and hour, let that suffice. The genuine student of religious life and evolution, as he observes Father Divine in operation, will stop, listen and learn, but never laugh. A new religious dispensation always appeals to those who are weary and heavy laden, who look for a leader who will give them cest. It is precisely at this level of culture and among this type of people, that religious man- Observations on the Passing Parade BY CHARLES M. THOMAS OXLEY DRAWS WRONG CONCLUSION; TRADE SCHOOLS BUT NOT TRADE EDUCATION A FAILURE, SAYS CHARLES M. THOMAS, 40 YEARS IN EDUCATION. Having spent 10 years in a laboratory for experimental psychology that I set up in the Miner Normal School, Washington, in 1906, I have retrained from stepping outside of local school circles with the conclusions revealed by that work. But the present confusion in education in general and in that of colored pupils and students in particular force me into the arena. Just as Africans tried to steal diamonds and gold when the English discovered them in South Africa, so they would imitate the results of education as they see them, without knowing what it is they do, or what they would do with it, did they get it. The first error made by colored students is the belief that they can learn by mere repetition. They can do it as a matter of reproducing sounds, but it would take 1,000 years to feel and act as different races feel and act in that situation. Be that not so, then education itself is meaningless, for it consists of receiving impressions and reacting to them with satisfaction or discomfort, physical, emotional and or intellectual or symbolic. Not the eye alone, but every avenue of sensation from without and within the body carries disturbances to the central nervous system, and there converts them into excitations which end in muscles causing action, which may end in conduct, provided it the action, seeks some end foreseen in the beginning. Eyes see not only color, shades, form, shapes, distances and the like, but all are subject to distortion by the position of the head and by the concentration of the glance supported by every muscle in the body. How does the eye of a Negro see? How many educators can answer that basic question By means of reading tests and descriptions of set pictures. I have noted that Negroes read negative statements as positive, singular as plural, and read into the text For the past three years, our government has been run by the Democratic party, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the wheel. Within a few months the citizens of the United States will be called upon to give expression of their satisfaction or disatisfaction of the Roosevelt administration through their ballots. While there are several political parties who will nominate their candidates to succeed Mr. Roosevelt, the only party that will be given serious consideration by the Democrats, besides their own will be the Republican party. The majority of the citizens will vote either for the Republican candidate or the emocratic candidate. To me it seems that the question to be answered will be whether we wish to return to the Republican party and give support to the type of government we experienced under the Hoover regime, or do we wish to permit Mr. Roosevelt to continue along the lines of recovery and guide us back to prosperity. Since the Republican party is still dominated by the same forces that practically wrecked this country before Mr. Roosevelt came into power. it would be folly to return to that same party still dominated by Mr. Hoover, Mr. Fletcher and others. There can be no doubt that the Roosevelt administration has not at least made attempts to be fair to all races, citizens of the United States, and in many instances has been successful in wibing out discriminatory practices in many of the New Deal set-ups. Zooeyelt Fair His intentions of being fair and honest in his dealings with the Negro race were indicative shortly after he assumed his duties as President, when he surrounded himself with a liberal cabinet, who in turn placed Negro advisors on their staffs. The attitude of Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Jokes was clearly indicated when he created the office of Negro affairs and placed therein three competent Negroes to advise him on the economic status of their race. This office has rendered valuable service to the Negro. On many occasions the secretly himself has made public utterances to the public that his administration tolerate no discrimination. His recent attack on those who are words not written there. In describing pictures, students of the same type generously supply what is not in the picture at all, and even spin yarns from their imaginations as to what the picture shows. What educators take this action into account The ear of Negro students hears tone, direction, and gives a sense of balance, but what tones? And how accurate does that ear hear direction, or how graphically does it trace directions? Experiments have shown that more than 35 per cent will delay action until they look around at what someone else is doing, and imitate that. Observations have shown that queer sounds and intonations get more immediate response than does precision. The span of attention is narrow, and rapt interest opens eyes and mouth, accompanied by awkward and gawky bodily attitudes. Talking is not communicating but expressing one's own feelings, regardless of the listeners' interest or attention. Idioms read and heard in 10 years of formal instruction are discarded for idioms of the child life or the social stratum when self-interest predominates. "Is you got your Latin?" may be heard from a student of youthful years, and "you all aint got none at all" is as common as inquiries about the weather among grownups. Having surprised themselves with a quip or sharp retort, Negro students will repeat it three or four times, with varia-seen me! man, you shoulda seen een me! man, you shoulda seen me. man, you shoulda have me!" Negro students who think themselves specially learned ask questions whose import is obvious, not to get confirmation, but to indicate how much they have gotten in memory. And these observations might be repeated for every sense organ and every phase of response, from shuffling gait in walking to limp-hanging hands in positions of rest. The conclusion is, "the closer to the Negro type, the greater the tendency to reverse the psychological reaction to any stimulus." What schools or the education of colored students take that inference into consideration in their practices? (To be continued.) standing in the way of his low-cost housing project, designed to drive Negroes out of slum areas, is another example of the noble man that he is. Last week's Tribune announced that the Secretary of Labor, Madame Francis Perkins, has appointed forty Negroes at one time to clerical positions in her department, at another instance appointed another lot of forty, and is to appoint nine more before the end of the month Madame Perkin's attitude toward the Negro is also well known. Early in her administration she went to North Carolina and bought back Lieutenant Lawrence A. Oxley, made him Conciliator Chief of the Division of Negro Labor, a division created by her. That Mr. Oxley might better perform the duties of his high office, the Secretary gave him two efficient clerks, and an expert statistician and economist. The Secretary of Commerce, Daniel Roper, is another individual on the Roosevelt Cabinet who epitomizes the high ideals and fairness of the Democratic Administration. This columnist had the privilege of sitting in on a group of Negro leaders, called in conference by the Secretary of Commerce, for the purpose of advising him as to how he could best administer the duties of his office with fairness to the Negro race. The committee, which still serves as advisors to the Secretary, promptly recommended that Mr. Roper establish an office of Advisor on Negro Affairs. Their recommendation that Dr. Kinckle Jones, executive secretary of the Urban League be appointed to the position, was promptly accented, and Dr. Jones was appointed. More recently he has been given the assistance of Dr Joseph Houghins, appointed as associate advisor on Negro affairs- Other Appointments BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL of the Government, are strong arguments in favor of a repitition of the New Deal. Again, we must not overlook the fact that President Roosevelt has in the White House, on his executive staff, Frederick Pryor, an executive clerk, and every employee in the White House Mansion, with the exception of the housekeeper and chief usher, are Negroes, including personal maids, valet, doormen, etc. Working side by side with the President in discouraging discriminations, because of color, has been the President's wife, the First Lady of the Land. One cannot help but feel that in her many addresses to Negro audiences, she bespeaks the sentiments of our President, who, because of the heavy pressure of duties, cannot always be present Unlike former-President Hoover, Mr. Roosevelt and his wife are unafraid of being photographed with Negroes. Both are unafraid of mingling with Negroes, socially. When at home to his Harvard school mates, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt did not bar their five Negro classmates. They too, were invited, cordially greeted, and then sipped tea together. At the White House Ball for Representatives in Congress, our Negro Congressman and his wife likewise, were invited, danced, and otherwise mingled socially with the White House host, hostess and guests. The only excuse the Negro has ever used for voting a Republican ticket has been because their forefathers and President Lincoln were Republicans. Roth our forefathers and Lincoln are dead. We can no longer look to them for help. That the present living Republics do not intend to contiune in the spirit of Lincoln has just been demonstrated by the last administration. Our only hope is in the Democratic Party And since the President is going to be swept back into office, why not get on the bandwagon show our appreciation to an administration, who in the face of trying times, has tried to be fair, has succeeded in lifting us partially out of the rut, and who has plans ahead, which, if carried out, should lift us entirely out of the rut, if we do our part. And after all, that was the only burden put upon us by Mr. Roosevelt, when he adopted the slogan, "Do Your Part." Most responsible organs of opinion are dumbfounded over the peace proposals made by Premier Laval of France and Sir Samuel Hoare of England, to end the war in Ethiopia. The New York Times, in a long leading editorial captioned "The Forgotten Ethiopians," says: "The Ethiopians seem to consider it a disgraceful and intolerable peace and are prepared to keep on fighting rather than accept it." The New York Herald Tribune, often sympathetic toward Italy, in a leading editorial captioned: "Peace Vs. Principles," says: "It is with distinctly mixed feelings that one reads the reported terms of the Franco-British inducement to II Duce to abandon his little war in East Africa. On the one hand there is something just a trifle ironic in this picture of great nations, solemnly sworn to 'preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence' of Ethiopia, thus offering to reward the aggressor by ratifying his title to large gobs of Ethiopian territory and the further drastic impairment of Ethiopian political independence. To intervene in a highway robbery — and to intervene while the victim is still very much alive and battering the highwayman not unsuccessfully — with a proposal that the thug shall receive, in compensation for his efforts, free title to the victim's watch, watch chain and cuff links, plus the unsecured loan of one-third of the contents of his wallet, does not, somehow, seem to be quite the way to establish that reign of law with which the United States is being earnestly summoned to co-operate." From the foregoing it is readily seen that the scheme by which the Europen politicians had hoped to forestall war among themselves over a Negro nation may not work. It is a crazy scheme. It should not work. Brisbane Exasperated Arthur Brisbane was completely "put out" by the neatness with which Joe Louis despatched Paulino Uzedun in Madison Square Garden, recently. In his Sunday stint Mr. Brisbane, perhaps for the sake of variety, but most likely with the hope he might slyly harm Joe's chances at the championship title—stressed the fact that Louis knocked out "another white man" and that "for a financial consideration." Mr. Brisbane, always dabbling in bizarre equations, commented on Louis: "Those familiar with the importance of mixing human races to product results, who know that ancient Greece was the most mixed race, then Rome, then France, then England and finally the United States, most mixed of all, with Japan the most thoroughly mixed race in Asia, will consider with interest the mixture of races in young Joe Louis. "His light brown skin reveals white blood, acquired, perhaps, back in the days of slavery. "Barefet co-ordination of nerves "Perfect co-ordination of nerves A Comparison Calvin Says BY FLOYD J. CALVIN Crazy Peace Plans Brisbane Exasperated and muscles he inherits, doubtless, from his African ancestors. His remarkable legs, powerful, tapering down toward the knee and ankle, round, muscular, tireless, reveal the presence in his organism of still another race. His grandfather, it is said, was a full-blooded American Indian, of the Cherokee tribe. That mixture, white and Indian, grafted on a powerful American foundation, has produced a very efficient machine." Mr. Brisbane is to be complimented for not lugging in his pet gorilla in this connection. It just happens that Joe's genius for hitting blows that go home is more than Mr. Brisbane can understand, so he speculates ad infinitum. Higher Education Writing in the New York Times recently, President Patterson of Tuskegee said: "Higher education for Negroes, as for all people, if it is to attain the goal of socioeconomic adjustment, must establish firm objectives which recognize that its chief and lasting value must be its ability to make its recipient more useful. This becomes all the more necessary in America, where higher education is administered on a wholesome basis, and those from even the most modest homes feel an inalienable right to it." The casualness with which a president of Tuskegee makes this statement, in view of the strictly industrial background of the institution, is a sign of the "New Deal" in education which the Negro in the South is getting. Today our most strictly industrial schools realize that the best industrial efficiency cannot be bead without mental development commensurate with the skill of the eye and the hand. Judging from this, Tuskegee will eventually become a university. It is already a college, and will, perhaps soon, be granting graduate degrees. Already Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College has been empowered by the Legislature to grant the Master's degree. Tuskegee will not remain behind State schools. All of which augurs well for the masses of Negroes, in that the plan of their education has been broadened to include the highest and the best. Year Ends 1955 draws to a close. Looking back, we have made some distinct gains, as well as suffered some shocks during the year. We lost Richard B. Harrison, but the acclaim he received in the East and the West was a distinct gain in racial prestige. A book on Early Negro Writers by Professor Benjamin Brawley was published by the University of North Carolina Press, the first time such a work has been brought out by a white Southern publisher. Professor Guy B. Johnson of the University of North Carolina made a strong plea for better treatment of Negro personality by white leaders in Atlanta last April. Ethiopia has been threatened by Italy, but the diplomacy of Emperor Haile Selassie has inspired Negroes everywhere. We have much to be thankful for as the year ends. The World In Review By FRANK M. DAVIS The War In Africa; A boxing writer might say Haile Selassie, wily and skillful as Gene Tunney, has begun to forge ahead on points over Benito Mussolini, the hard-hitting slugger who might be likened to Jack Dempsey. For a while it appeared to the crowd that U Duce was landing crushing blows, but late reports indicate the Kings of Kings has done a good job of blocking and is wearing down his more powerful adversary with his in-and-out guerrilla tactics. Selassie, by his raids, lands short punches which keep Mussolini off balance and halt the I* lian's rushing fight. Late developments show Haile with the upper hand. Accordingly, reports that the emperor wants to throw in the sponge, by offering to let II Duce keep the land he now occupies in exchange for peace, seem far fetched. Unless the League of Nations has changed its stand by the time this sees print, the Ethiopian potentate has merely to continue his present style of fighting to come out on top. France, whom London heard signed a secret pact with Italy; last week definitely raised the color issue in the African situation. Her officials take it for granted that Mussolini's war venture is becoming daily more disastrous and foresee the complete ruin of Il Duce, collapse of Italy as a world power; and chaos in Europe. Appealing to Britain to come to her way of thinking and save Italy from itself. France told England the British army might be needed to take Mu solini out of Africa safely; prevent another recurrence of the Adowa defense in 1896 on a large, scale; and retain white prestige in Africa. That is a strong selling point. Only a few weeks ago this column pointed out what France now believes; that Il Duce might have to get help in order to turn loose Ethiopia. If France stresses sufficiently the color issue and points out the white race is in danger of having its leadership thrown off; there is no telling what sentiment might develop in Caucasian Europe. Wonder how often women's styles changed during Methuselah's span of life? BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL What of the Negro in Texas? Writer Says He is Failing and Progressing with the Tide once a slave plantation, located about fifty miles west of Houston. Sixty years ago, at a cost $20,000 the property was purchased and the old wooden buildings were enovated for class rooms. Many of the more prominent Negroes in Texas have been educated at Prairie View College. Today this school is the only state-supported institution for Negroes in Texas. It has twenty-five substantial brick buildings, scattered over about 1,434 acres of ground. The plant is valued at approximately $3,000,000. It is perhaps the most outstanding Negro institution in the entire Southwest, and is writing its name larger and larger in the news and history of the race in America. Prairie View College has not come suddenly to the world's attention by being involved in scandal or through the prowess of its football teams. It is because of its sound work in educating the Negroes of Texas for useful service that distinction has come to this institution. One visiting the place cannot fail to be impressed by the way President W. R. Banks is putting over a big program. It is generally admitted that the Negro of Texas is, in a measure, politically helpless. But, argues, W. R. Banks, however true that may be there is still no reason why he should be economically helpless, as well. Since education is our best weapon of salvation, we might as well dig in and with that fortitude make the most of those opportunities and privileges that are left us. 45 YEARS IN BUSINESS HORNING DIAMONDS Always Cost YOU Less Because They Cost US Less 20-Diamond, Round Wrist Watch, $49.50 Loan new 17-J. Ollendorf depend- ent guaranteed watch—10% irid. Diamond. Save at Horning's! LADY'S LATE STYLE WRIST WATCH, $12 New, smart design, either round or rectangular style, with a fine West- field fully guaranteed movement. Save at Horning's! Open Daily Until 6 P.M. Men's & Ladies' DIAMOND RINGS $5 to $25 Large, fine, white, full-cut di- amonds set in white or yellow gold mountings. Many designs to choose from. Save at Horning's! Unredeemed Pledges HORNING'S Take Any Bus Losing 11th and Pa. Ave. Loan Office Opposite Washington Airport South Washington, Virginia Ample Parking Space By JOHN R. WILLIAMS, Is the Texas Negro succeeding? That is the question so often asked one upon returning from an extensive visit to the Lone Star State. Like Negroes everywhere, the Negro of Texas, is partly succeeding and partly failing. He is succeeding because he has the will and the courage that make for success, and he is failing for the same reason that many whites in the state too, are failing — because he refuses, in many instances, to see beyond his horizon; fails to recognize that the world is moving on; fails to understand that many things that once were accepted or tolerated are no longer in order. In short, lack of education is the cause of most failures and short-comings in Texas today. Need for Education Education is the only ladder by which the whites or the blacks of Texas may hope to climb. The shocking lynching that took place in Columbus, Texas, a fortnight ago and the subsequent approbation, alleged to have been given the same by the Chamber of Commerce and the District Attorney's office of that town, are sufficient, to denote that education is badly needed among the whites in some parts of Texas. Atrocious crimes committed by Negroes, from time to time, in various parts of the state, also sustain the assertion that education among Negroes is still a vital need in the Lone Star State. We cannot stop the recurrence of crime in Texas, or elsewhere, but by education we can make crimes fewer in number and avoid their worse effects. For the whites who persist in being steeped in ignorance, there is little that can be said, since they have sufficient educational advantages. Certainly their opportunities, along this line are far superior to those of the Negro. However, it must be said that education of the Negro in Texas, has increased quits steadily in the past two decades, with still much room for improvement. Distributed throughout the state today, are hundreds of rural schools, specializing in elementary education for both Negro children and Negro adults, and possibly half a hundred secondary schools, as against less than one-third that number a quarter of a century ago. In addition, there are about half a dozen accredited Negro colleges in Texas today, helping to mould character and to prepare Negro boys and girls for life. I should say, without hesitation, that education of Negroes in Texas, is of increasing importance, and whatever progress is being made by the Negro there, is due in very large measure to education. As Paulson has said: "We cannot hope to make men better unless we interest them in better things." Praire View On Top At the top of the educational institutions for Negroes, in Texas, in Prairie View State College, a land-grant institution, the purpose of which is to make available for the Negroes of the state the best possible training in liberal arts and vocational guidance. The land, occupied by the institution, was W. R. Banks Lauded Influence Felt It is a significant fact that this modest and retiring man should have been chosen to head the largest Negro institution in Texas. Even more significant is the fact that he should have been elected to Board of Trustees of four other large Negro educational institutions in the South' Morehouse College, in Atlanta; Paine College, in Augusta, Georgia; Texas College, in Tyler, Texas and Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Also, he has just concluded his first term as president of the Negro Land-Grant College Association of America. All in all, W. R. Banks is a determining influence in educational policies in the South. His character is such that he never allows his influence to slip into other hands. He makes major decisions on his own responsibility but he believes in the delegation of authority to competent heads of the various departments of the institution. Situation Foggy Aside from Prairie View College, there remains much to be done along the line of Negro education in Texas from public funds. Local education boards in the various cities and counties seem to look upon the matter with indifference. A heavy fog lies over the situation as a whole, and there is nothing to indicate that conditions might change very suddenly. Improvements is bound to be only gradual and the outlook varies from place to place. In Dallas and Houston, the largest cities of the state; sentiment is none too KK We wish for the following clubs, their patrons and our many friends a MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY AND PROSEROUS NEW YEAR: We wish for the following clubs, their patrons and our many friends a MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY AND PROSEROUS NEW YEAR: The Janta Club, the Arcadian Club, the Club Gladiola, the Captivators, the Primrose Social Club, the Daring Dames, the Social Six, the Blue and Gray, the Bermuda Social Club, the Rivera Social Club, the Humming Birds, the Red, White and Blue Whist Club, the Blue Eagle Social Club, the Jolly Cluster Social Club the Jolly Eight Social Club, the Travelers Social Club, the Rosedale Pleasure Club, the Harlem Social Club, the Rio Rita Whist Club, the Social Four, the Merry Makers Whist Club, the Washington Aristocrats, the Blue Moon Whist Club, the Mickey Mouse Sport Club, the Avalon Social Club, the Vogue Social Club, the Adonis Club, the Nurses Alumni, the Yadsuets Social Club, the Acacia Bridge Club, the Northwest Athletic Club. Let us give your music problem for 1936. You may engage THE SEPIA SYNCOPATORS by phoning WEst 0731-W writing to 3620 N STREET, N.W.-Adv. favorable. In Austin, Fort Worth and Beaumont there seems to be indifference on the part of the whites with regard to the Negro in general; whereas in San Antonio and Galveston there is a pronounced sentiment for Negro endeavor, especially is this true with regard to Negro education. Need Better Salaries Inadquate salaries to Negro teachers and lack of equipment seem to be the greatest handicaps in the matter of Negro education in Texas. But, as W. R' Banks points out; the salivation of the Texas Negro lies in education, as it benevoles him; under-privileged as he is, to bear this in mind and make sacrifices if needs be, to gain all the knowledge he can. That the Negro has economic football is in the state of Texas is not to be denied. Particularly is this true with regard to the vast and rich oil and agricultural region in the Northwestern part of the state where Prairie View College and Texas College are sending each year well trained men and women. Carry Examples to the Children By JOHN HENRY ADAMS (For ANP) At every opportunity our children ought to be permitted to be in the presence of men and women of nose. The inspiration and spur to amotion to children through seeing and hearing and even shaking the hand of a man about whom they have heard much as being exceptional in the measure of personal accomplishment in any field of worthy endeavor, are as important in children's reaching a decision as to what they shall strive to be as the school recount the lives of great men and women. To my mind, seeing the individual who is achievement itself, makes a far greater and more lasting impression for good on the plastic mind of the young than the written story of the man read over and over until it is committed to memory. I have never read anything about Frederick Douglass that approached in effectiveness the impressions I got from seeing, him and hearing him speak in the red school-house at Albany, Ga., in 1890. My first impression of a church dignitary was made on seeing Bishop James A. Shorter preside at an annual conference of the A.M.E. Church in Savannah, Ga., in 1897. Thomas Bethune (Blind Tom), who was the first Negro to gain national prominence as a musician, did more from my seeing him perform on a piano, to convince me that the Negro could master musical technique, than all that I could now read about anybody. I have seen many of Henry O. Tanner's paintings, one of which, "Daniel in the Lion's Den," I shall never forget. But when I first saw him dressed in white one summer day in Philadelphia in 1896 as he strolled leisurely along Walnut Street, just from Paris to visit his distinguished father and mother, Bishop and Mrs. B. T. Tanner, his set and all art became thereafter, in inexinguishable flame in my soul. Youth is swayed by visible object lessons. Seeing is believing. As much as seeing is believing with old folk, it means so much more to youth. And ye, we permit our exemplary men and women to visit our cities, speak to and mingle with us on occasions, with no thought of their greater value to the children — our children, whose need for support to their wobbling and tottering ideals was never more urgent than now when the social standards are set by stage and screen artists, when the literature is built around immoral plots and when the art is lewd and sensuous. In every city where a man or woman of intrinsic merit is to appear, a citizens' committee should make it a point to invite the in- dividual and the sponsors to join the committee on a visit to the various city schools, where the children and the teachers may reap some of the benefit of the notable's visit. This may take place before or after the set occasion. It is an advantage to the set occasion and to the visitor to go the rounds of the school first. Above all, it is the cue to the course to be followed by our children, which is of utmost importance right now. THE OLD FAITH (Continued from page 1) men amidst the complexities of this environment of other men and natural things than is encouched in Jewish history. It explores all depths of human nature and points a way to rise above animal inclinations. Literally, it is Jehovah's gesture to man as he struggles from his beasthuman ancestry to the full stature of his possible evolution. In it heredity, like every natural law, is obeyed, and environment as the modifier is exposed for its good or evil consequences. Human motives are followed to their outcome in conduct unequalled in any novel or drama, and the possible results of expressing natural feelings in situations to which they are no longer adapted, are pictured with graphic influence. With the appearance of John the Baptist, "the day long prophesied was at hand," but each interpreted that "day" in terms of his own thinking as now. The son of an aged priest, John was let into the mystic secrets of the Kaballah which the higher priests alone possessed. From a Tarzan-like existence (Tarzan being a Saxon parody of that life), John came forth in prime cleanliness of living and a resultant power and magnetism that scorned all pretense and hurled thunderbolts against "trees that brought not forth good fruit." He prepared the way as an advance agent for the New Age that was about to be ushered in after thirty years, a single generation, of preparation. The political-minded expected a new government; the priesthood, a new revelation; the business men, a new boom; suffering masses, relief; the forces of evil, a new racket. John himself did not know what form the New Age was to take. He was its herald. He was steeped in obedience from Abraham, persistence through Jacob, willingness to suffer, through a thousand martyrs; regal power through Samuel, Solomon and David, and a vision through a long line of prophets. John was surprised when his own cousin, Son of the Nazarene, a carpenter, indicated by signs and passwords that He was duly accredited. John baptized Him as a significant initiation. Thirty years before, Wise Men from the East came to Jerusalem to enquire for Him who was born under that "Star which we have seen and which has been predicted for ages in our ancient learning." They were of a cult that believed in a future life and the advent of a Savior. They had been told by older members of the order when and how they might recognize Him, who was to usher in the New Age, and they came BRINGING GIFTS. Thus we have Christmas, greatly covered by customs and purposes far from the real meaning of that event. It is, however, a day on which contending armies stop fighting. It is a day on which Pagans drag in the yule lof, emplem to them of immortality, and light it, to catch its warm, lifegiving glow as it releases its pent-up power. dividual and the sponsors to join the committee on a visit to the various city schools, where the children and the teachers may reap some of the benefit of the notable's visit. This may take place before or after the set occasion. It is an advantage to the set occasion and to the visitor to go the rounds of the school first. Above all, it is the cue to the course to be followed by our children, which is of utmost importance right now. It is a day when children appeal to the most selfish. It is a day when men wish each other well. It is a day that modifies the lives of human beings, thus slowly bringing them into a closer bond of brotherhood through the very society they have built up. But it must not be forgotten that behind it lays the ancient faith out of which this day and this new age emerged toward a nobler and higher destiny even now but faintly foreshadowed to the wisest of men. "It was then that the planets Saturn and Jupiter formed a conjunction in the constellation Pisces, and were later joined by the planet Mars, the most significant movement in the starry heavens ever known to observers of the movements of the planets." Thus does science confirm the record translated and copied and recopied to give us that most influential of stories in this modern age. Verily, it is a STAR OF HOPE FOR MANKIND! No other man, with but a single generation of life, ever played so great a part in the drama of human existence, and no other people but the Hebrews, occupying but a small portion of this vast world, ever produced such a man, nor can any process of human advancement ever have so profound an effect upon human beings, except it be a moral struggle to realize the highest ideals conceived by the finite mind. As heirs of all the ages, we are "children of a King." joint-heirs with Jesus Christ, and the kingdom of the future is iwthin." If we would usher in the New Age, we must "take up the cross daily and follow Him." Yes, sir, tomorrow is Christmas and I haven't purchased the first kard, or "blow cloth" or cravat, 'n I can't gonna db go. No! Can't go to all that expense in these ere days. Times too dratin' hard.—All the noise aside—Christmas has sneaked up on me and this business of playing Santa is still a novelty to me. So gotta do it. Speaking of Christmas brings te mind that any number of capital natives will return to Dee Cee to join in the festivities slated for this busy interval. A few months ago, after reading a number of short stories written by Harry Benne Anderson, I told you that the chap had "pen power" and I was right. Harry's "He Done Her Right," a short, binge in the Progressive Consumer "mag" a week or two before he entrained for N.Yark, "The City of Dreams Come True."—Anyway, some of Anderson's dreams were realized after being a police reporter and graduating to social reporter (with a "by line") on the Amsterdam News. Harry has his scrap book and you'll enjoy hearing his story of his first "scoop." Stick to it, Benne, ole tea, your power of description is "tops." BUD KENDRICK'S REPORTS from the Wolverine line, (Morris Brown College), that the vicious little animal, under the wing of Professor Waymond Hathcock, has gone decidedly classical. The group, under Hathcock, has put over Handel's "Messiah," in such a grand and gorious manner that the Atlanta natives are loud in their praises of its rendition and are clammering for more of this sort of thing. Prof. Hathcock proved the courage for which he is noted by the manner and confidence he exhibited in undertaking this great work of Handel. Many have attempted this famous piece of music but, I venture to say that none have reached the heights to which the Morris Brown group elevated in those two hours. To this we say, "Happy Are We." Season's Greetings WE WISH TO TAKE THIS OCCASION TO EXPRESS TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS OUR SINCERE WISHES FOR A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR CHESTNUT FARMS- CHEVY CHASE DAIRY 26TH STREET AT PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE Christmas Ice Cream Specials ICE CREAM SANTA A Jolly, Old Santa in colorful Yuletide dress ... Strawberry, Pistachio, Chocolate and Eggnog. Stands 12 inches tall. Serves 12 to 14 $1.50 persons ICE CREAM CAKE Luscious Fruits, Pure Cream and Rich, Tasty Nuts are blended smoothly together with a dash of real old rum. Trimmed with whipped cream. Serves $1.25 8 to 10 Individual Fancy Holiday Molds. 1.75 doz. FRENCH CHOCO-LATE AND EGG-NOG in brick form. Cut 24, 28 or 32 servings to the gallon. $1.50 MEADOW GOLD Order From Your MEADOW GOLD Dealer or Phone Lis. $900 Ice Cream LIPPER UP KEEP STIFF Emmett D. Preston, Jr.; and you'll be able to keep that job. This Preston fellow copped a century note for an article in Doktor Wood. son's Journal. The stuff was so good that it landed him a job as a scribe for the Associated Publishers, Inc., the concern steered by "Dok" Woodson himself. Loads of luck little "M," no more rendezvous on "R" Street now. Nix. ...THE DUKES, that club of beau brummels that entertain their friends in such a fine manner, are tossing a "boogie" on the twenty-sixth of this month. "Tis formal and booked to be "sum goot." Howard Johnson, the vice prexy of the club, invites loads of beautious browns — the "cat" is a "laver." BLABBERMONT Ruth Waters, author of "Eastern Shores," will do the autumn sometime real soon to growing- famous, postmaster Claudia McConnell, has to do a poem or so others of this spot. You enjoy these bits of "sympathy and I'd greatly appreciate waiting us, Mrs. McConnell self know if you do or do office or 1120 Lamont Northwest, Co. 0430. Clinton Staples is cruiser boulevards in a Buick town 'n' tis a nice lerent— The Beta Zeta Chapitas of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority is preparing to entertain delegates and friends during the Christmas holidays. Several sorors including Louise Hopkins and Phyllis Parker are planning a cocktail affair at the Crystal Caverns before the formal dance on the twenty-seventh. Morehouse College had as their guest debaters, "Men of Oxford," last Thursday night, our Atlanta snoop tells us. Benne Anderson is a member of NYark's swanky Poosepahtuck Club. Harry was introduced into the club by Harlem's "W. W." Ted Yates. Lawson Hurrell—must get untangled my boy. Think of the expense "around the corner." The Sigmas and Omegas will have their conclave in Atlanta during Xmas A Merry Christmas to All SANTA THE REAL CHRISTMAS SPIRIT "Why, Alma! Surely you like your presents." "Aina smiled from one foot to the other, murmured," Yes, ma'am," and turned from the mirror to the window. "Really I don't understand you today. Surely you have everything that anyone could possibly want. What is it?" "Nooning." Mrs. Harris turned to the tree, and looked over the presents. "Hat, coat, shoes, pocketbook, writing paper, handkerchiefs! Everything!" She turned to Alma. "And a dress! "You ought to be the happiest child alive!" Alma looked at her mother in a puzzled manner and asked: "What is happiness, mother? How doe, one get it?" "Anything within reason that will make you happy." "Mother—we're tired of Babette, aren't we? Can't I throw her away? "Erbette! I know you're crazy now!" "No, mother, I mean it." Alma went over and picked up the doll—a beautiful life-sized infant with curly black hair that just peeped from under her baby blu bonnet. Her eyes were closed. She had on a long baby blue dress with little knots of ribbon tie! he and there. Carefull Alma held the doll and continued. "I'm too old for dolls, mother." "But child, your grandmother gave you that! That was her last gift before she died!" Alma's lip quivered. "I know it. But—but she would understand. Please say yes, that I may throw her away, mother." "I'll say nothing of the kind! I'm not going to say you can't either. I'm thoroughly disgusted." "Then I can do it?" "Stop pressing me Alma, and do what you please! But I am thoroughly disappointed. Warn until your fatter knows it!" Win these words Mrs. Harris went out of the room. Alma, a starry-eyed child of twelve or thirteen, stood stil where she was a look of joy lighting up her face. She was dressed in a beautiful pale green taffeta. She cast one glance at her new coat and hat, then went into the hall and put on her old on Taking from under the buffer a box, she put Babette carefully into it, after giving her a hug and kiss. Then she called out of the door: "Bob! Bob!" "What do you want?" Bob was a tall boy with sandy hair and lustreless eyes. He bore a slight resemblance to Alma. "Please take me out in your car." "Where to?" Alma put her fingers to her lips. "Sh, promise you won't kill." "It must be something bad!" "Really it isn't, Bob. Won't you do it?" "Aw I won't tell. Go on and get it out." Alma looked sad, and then added, eagerly but fearfully, "Take me to Marian Grey's house." "Marian!" "You promised, Bob." "Well, come on. I hate this, though. What's this you're taking?" Alma dropped her eyes and answered: "Please take it to the co for me." Bob picked up the box muttering. "Alma Harris if you get yourself into trouble, I'm not going to know anything about it!" It was dusk of the same day—Xmas day. The room was the one in which Mrs. Harris and Alma had stood talking that morning. Across from Mrs. Harris a man, who looked enough like Boo to be his brother, sat smoking. "Tom. I think something will have to be done about Alma." "What has she done?" "She's been acting unearly all day. Xmas day when it has blured one as she has been blessed is Dear Santa Claus: Will you please send me a box of candy and a box of china dishes? I am a girl ten years old. My sister is 8, and I have a little brother, 7. They would like to have something. I go to the Upperville, Virginia School. I am in the third grade. Please send me something this Christmas as I did not get anything last year. I would also like to have a doll with human hair Irene Brooks Upperville, Va. . . Dear Santa: Please send me a doll and a baby carriage, and some dichs. Yolande Brone 918 Eighth St. N. W. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a train and a wagon. Do not forget the joint children, and bring mother a coat and shoes and bring me a car. Please bring me a coat. Dorothy Lee Dear Santa: Please bring me a car and a train. I love you. Please bring sister a doll. Melvin Jeffries 646 Pickford Street, N. E. Dear Santa: Would you please see that my sister and brothers get some toys for Christmas. My mother has been sick for over a month and is not able to get anything, but they are always talking about what they want you to bring to them. I have six brothers and one sister. Their ages are 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and I am 11. I go nothing to home and see. And yet he has been living. Oh, she'll get over it. I hope so. Just then the door burst open, and came in her eyes were bright, and sparkling, free mouth was paited in a smile. "Where have you been, Alma, and why can't you tell your new coat?" he mother asked. Oh, I believe, I know no Santa Claus as now, and I know where happiness comes from. I've begin to cherish Grays'. "And you found all those things but there," her ranger answered, chuckling. "Yes, rather. You see, mother said I ought to be the happiest can have because we had everything given to me today. But I wn't." "Why?" "Weed you see, when we left school I told ma'am that I nopeed she had a nice Anna, and she said that it couldn't be nice when out any presents, and her mother was sick in bed. Sometimes or other that stuck by me and it took away all the beauty o. my presents. So I fixed up a stocking full of nuts and canopy and (I had so ma.y I knew they never would be missed) I got one of my new boxes o. hankerchief, and Babette and took them to me. "You gave Babette to her! What did she say?" "Oh, she was so happy! Then I found out where happiness really came from, for I was happy too. And Santa Claus." "I thought you didn't believe in him, her in her put in sarcascully." "I don't. Alma answered truthfully. "Not as a man who dresses up in a red suit trimmed in fur. That." just a personification of him." "Well, how do you believe in me?" "Well, I don't know as I can explain it. He's just the beautiful thought in the minds of the people that makes them want to make someone else happy at this time. He's the Xmas spirit." "Pull off your wraps, Alma." Alma skipped out of the room. Mes. Harris looked after her in a puzzled manner, and murmured, "I said there was something queer." Mr. Harris drew himself up to his all height and exclaimed, "Woops! that's a daughter worth having!" Aunt Julie: MOTTO—"The future of the race marches forward on the feet of little children."—Phillip Brooks. A to Randall Junior High School. Please do not disappoint us. I would like some skates Yours truly, (Your editor purpose y omitted the name.) Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me skates and a wagon. Ernest Amons 643 Pickford St. N E... Dear Santa: Please bring me a little hat coat, dress and shoes, and please do not forget the poor children. Please bring me some candy. Please bring me some cake too. James Stevenson 223 Parker St. N. E. Why not write Santa a letter next week and tell him how much you liked your Christmas presents. Get your letters in to the Tribune office by the end of the week for next Tuesday's paper. Little Annie Rooney Little Annie Rooney was a poor Little orphan who escaped from an asylum. Her mistress was very mean and her name was Mrs. Meany. She ran and ran until she had got tired and sat down to rest. She had a little dog called Zero. When they had rested they started again. They soon came in contact with an old man named Mr. Moore. He was not able to take care of himself, so Annie took care of him and did all the work. Mr. Moore had a great estate in the southern part of the country. Soon he claimed his estate. He had a son and a daughter. He also had a wife. When he went to claim his estate he took Annie with him. Annie found out that his real name was Mr. Moerland. Annie stayed with them and was happy ever after. I am 11 years old. Esther Holtzman 6 B grade .. Christmas In Behemia Have you ever heard of Bohemia? In that country, groups of children go from house to house singing Christmas carols. They are often given nuts and big red apples. The leaders are dressed like the Three Wise Men. They mark three crosses on each house which they visit. They believe that this will bring happiness to the people who live here. The Becheman children plan and build a stage on which they have the tiny figures of Mary and Joseph. They make a little manger for the baby Jesus. Sometimes they make little oven too. Raymo- d Chavis, 3 R grade 11 years Logan School.. The Story of Christ Once there was a barn which sat on a hill. As three Wise Men were riding on their camels they saw a star. The star was the brightest star in the Heavens. They stopped their camels and stood very still and watched the star. Soon they decided to follow the star. They walked and walked. They had to stop to get some water for the camels before they began their journey. Soon they saw a barn far away. They walked on until they came to the barn and opened the door. There was a horse and a cow in there. They climbed over some boards and saw a baby living in the hay. One of the men said: "That is the Christ the Holy Child." And they worshipped Him, and went away. William Smith Legan School Riddle Box CHANGE POSITION Change the position of these words and get a word pertaining to the Christmas season. For example, dog — change and you have God. 1. army 2. beats 3. rats 4. leon 5. seat 1. army 2. bleats 3. rats 4. leon 5. seat SCRAM"LED WORDS Caa! you unexamble these and get some word pertaining to the Christmas season? 1. digitns 2. regnam 3. maig 4. erhod 5. jephro 6. ganel 7. eivehs 8. ragi-lo 9. thebelmeh 10. melerusaj Plumber: "Well. 'ave you brought all the tools?" New Boy: "Yes, Sir." Plumber: "You would! THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1935 ```markdown ``` MERRY CHRISTMAS the lights of Christmas—the soft candle-light which gleams, the widens of houses, flickering with every gleam and the bright twinkly lights of the trees and decorations, gay spirit, that permeates everything and everybody, and uses a friendly wish for cheer to spring to every lip—known own. I like the music of Christmas—the beautiful, happy at the glorious chants of praise which never lose their sweet- ness. there's something more Christmas than the soft candle-light; liness and the music; something that one cannot express in more than he could express why gorgeous sunsets wring his ecstatic pain or lofty mountains move him to weep. There' more to Christmas than the happy laughter, the hearty and the brilliantly lighted tree. I know there's something you be merry this Christmas. May you have the soft glow of and the brilliant light of festivity; may you have music— beautiful music that sweeps you on to a greater cestasy and you join it, singing "gloria" out of sheer happiness. May you meet smile at you and speak a word of cheer. most of all, may you find that something more which makes what it is—and carry it with you, in your heart, through the ear. May it gladden and sweeten your life and keep you you share that something more with someone who needs it, true. I like lights of Christmas—the soft candle-light which gleams through the wildews of houses flickering with every gleam "Merry Xmas," and the bright twinkly lights of the trees and decorations. I like the gay spirit that permeates everything and everybody, and which causes a friendly wish for cheer to spring to every lip-known and unknown. I like the music of Christmas—the beautiful, happy music, and the glorious chants of praise which never lose their sweetness and holiness. But there's something more Christmas than the soft candle-light, the friendliness and the music; something that one cannot express in words any more than he could express why gorgeous sunsets wring his heart with ecstatic pain or lofty mountains move him to weep. There's something more to Christmas than the happy laughter, the hearty greetings, and the brilliantly lighted tree. I know there's something more. May you be merry this Christmas. May you have the soft glow of candles, and the brilliant light of festivity; may you have music—sweetly beautiful music that sweeps you on to a greater cestasy and joy, so that you join in singing "gloria" out of sheer happiness. May every one you meet smile at you and speak a word of cheer. But, most of all, may you find that something more which makes Christmas what it is—and carry it with you, in your heart, through the coming year. May it gladden and sweeten your life and keep you. May you share that something more with someone who needs it. MERRY CHRISTMAS! READ READING IS FUN READING IS FUN For the little tots: Book: Six Sunny Books Author: Wise-Parslow Publishing Company, $.75 those who read it and serve a splended introduction to the Biblical story. A book-like container of six hard books containing wholesome, amusing tales, and 150 pictures in full color of Little Slam Bang, an elephant child, Merry Murphy, a happy Irish potato, Grasshopper Green and his friends the field mice, and other anima's. Some of the stories are in rhyme, and all are beautifully illustrated throughout. A most excellent Christmas gift for the first-grade's library. For the little tots: Author: Wilfrid Swancourt Broncon. Wise-Parslow Company, New York. $1.00 A beautiful illustrated book of the strange creatures who live in the sea, written by a man who knows all about them. Many new and interesting facts are learned about fish. The pictures are colorful and interesting. For the Intermediate group: Book: His Name is Jesus. Author: John WatsonWilder. $1.50. Reilly and Lee, Chicago The story of the New Testament retold, in which the author attempts to give some of the childhood background of Christ and the children of the Bible. For that reason, it will have an individual appeal because of its normalcy. It is beautifully and simply illustrated, with a picture on every page. But it will be the appeal of Jesus the boy, his life and playmates that will linger in the minds of --- --- Christmas Cheer By CORRINE By CORRINE E. LEWIS (Student Dunbar High School, Wash., D.C.) 'Tis Christmas time, 'Tis Christmas time! Dear ballowed name of every clime! How each one's heart now happy feels, How each one's face fresh joy reveals As Christmas Day is drawing near The merriest day of all the year. Old spite and hate, the scowl, the snatr Are vanquished all, by kindly cheer, And friendship nigh forgot and cold Glow "warm again as once of old. Man's worries cease, his hope returns, His breast with love now brighter burns, So Christmas cheer! Oh, Christmas cheer! A hearty welcome to you here. A welcome through the world where trod The source of joy, the Son of God, The Lowly One who from above First warmed cold earth with gladsome loy Who still proclaims with golden voice, "Peace on earth! Rejoice! Rejoice! A welcome through the world where trod The source of joy, the Son of God, The Lowly One who from above First warmed cold earth with gladsome loye; Who still proclaims with golden voice, "Peace on earth! Rejoice! Rejoice! A welcome through the world where trod The source of joy, the Son of God, The Lowly One who from above First warmed cold earth with gladsome loys; Who still proclaims with golden voice, 'Peace on earth! Rejoice! Rejoice! Bcok. Water People. of Youth those who read it and serve as a splended introduction to the Biblical story. BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS Little Tots: *Kintu, A Congo Adventure, by Elizabeth Enright. $1.50 Farrar and Rinehart. *Mister Penny, by Marie Hall Ets. $1.00, Viking Press. *Mottoes: Old King Cole, Cat and Fiddle, 50c ea, Holiday House, Child's Garden of Verses, $1.00, Whitman Publishing Co. Intermediate Group *Children of the Handcrafts, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, $2.00, Viking Press. Our Little Ethiopian Cousin, by Elizabeth Borton, $1.00, L. C. Page. His Name is Jesus, by John Watson Wilder, $1.50, Reilly and Lee. Older Boys and Girls *In Calico and Criminoline, by Eleanor M. Sickels, $2.00, Viking Press *Guardsman of the Coast, by John J. Faherty, $2.00, Doubleday Doran. *It's More Fun When You Know the Rules, by Beatrice Pierce, $1.75, Farrar and Rinechart. For All Ages: *Thorndike Century Junior Dictionary, Appleton-Century, 2.00. *Modern Encyclopedia for young People, Wm. Collins and Sons, Ltd., $2.50. *Reviewed on this page. Others to be reviewed in the near future. Little Tots: Intermediate Group Older Boys and Girls 图 Conducted by BEATRICE M. MURPHY PREVIEWS Your stories for the contest are coming in fine. Please do not stop. Keep it up. If you have already sent in one, send in another. Your stories can be about anything. And wait until you hear the prizes! You'll wish you had taken part! Dec. Editor: A programme of Christmas music was presented at our school on Wednesday, December 18, 1935, by the children of the school. All of the music was very good, but the numbers rendered by the Ungarded class and the Kindergarten class was exceptionally good. Here is the program Prelude, Miss T. C. Johnson. Processional, Glee Club, Angels from the Realms of Clarity. Reading, Priscilla Bruce. Hark! The Heard Angels Sing, the school. Christmas Comes Again, Fourth grade. The Christmas Star, Kindergarten. There's a Wonderful Tree, Grades 4, 5, 6. Down the Chimney, First Grades. Dear Old Santa Claus, Second grades. Merry Christmas, Third grades. What Child Is This?, Fifth grade. From the Orient They Come a Riding, Ungraded classes. Luther's Cradle Hymn, Grades 1, 2, 3. Sleep My Little One, Grades 4, 5, 6. "O Little Town of Bethlehem," the school. The Birthday of a King, Sixth grades. Glee Club — "Under the Stars." Margaret Coate Brown; "Coventry Carol," Sir John Stainer; "Cantique de Noil," Adope Adams. Soloist — Roberta Long, John F Cook School, 1932. "Ah! Great is Our Good Fortune," Cecil, Cowdrey: "Angels We Have Heard on High." Ancient Noel. Epilogue by Charles Dines. Prayer by Miles B. Foster. Recession, "As With Gladness Men of Old." Posthue, Miss T. C. Johnson. Among the guests at our programs were: Dr. and Mrs. Garnet C. Wilkinson. First Assistant Superintendent of Schools; Benjamin Gaskins of the Board of Education, and wife; A K. Savoy, assistant superintendent of schools; L. L. Perry, supervising principal. Mr. Johnson, of the music department, and about 100 parents. We wish you could have been there. If we send you an invitation next time, will you try to come? The Children of the John F. Cook School Dear Editor: Everybody should be happy on Christmas day. That is what old people say. Just to see the children play On this happy Christmas Day. Santa Claus is a queer old man. He comes but once a year. Children should be thankful that there is a Santa Claus. We all like Christmas toys, and I think you do too, for Christmas comes but once a year. We should be happy just the same. Lettie Holston 5 A grade Logan School Dear Editor: The children in our room bought some old toys for some children whose parents were not able to make Santa Claus come to them. We brought ducks dolls, guns, books and dishes. We painted vases and we made chiffoneers and bureaus out of empty crayon boxes. Some of the boys made beds and play animals. We painted all the old toys and made clothes for the dolls. We had a good time. On the last day, Friday, December 20, we exchanged Christmas cards which we had made. At twelve o'clock we had a party. We had a good time. Mrs. Horad gave us potato salad, soda cracker- and pickles; for desert we had jello. We thank Mrs. Horad very much. Willie Mae Dorgan 11 years, 5 A grade FUNSTERS Teacher: "Can any boy tell me three food essentials required to keep the body in health?" There was a silence in the class till a tenderfoot scout held up his hand and replied: "Your breakfast, your dinner, and your supper." A speaker at Tennessee State College began an address to the students the other morning in this way: "Now, I'm not going to talk very long, but if you get what I'm going to say in your heads, you'll have the whole thing in a nutshell." And he looked surprised BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL THE ARTIST KENN RANDALL, who plays the part of "Robir" in the play, "Robin Hood" which will open the Children's Theatre 1935-36 season at Armstrong Auditorium next Saturday.. Randall has been an admirer of Robin Hood for a long time, and has played many parts in Robin Hood plays. His first appearance in this connection was in the production Douglass Fairbanks made for the silent pictures; Kenny was small page boy in the DID YOU ENJOY MY SHOW? MICKEY MOUSE Were you there at the "Silly Symphonies" last Saturday morning? If you weren't, you missed a treat! Ask some of your friends who were there to tell you all about it. for we certainly had a good time. Your editor would like to know from those who were there whether they would like to have another Silly Symphony matinee some time. when a roar of laughter followed the unintentional slam. "Nodadays one can't trust any body—the grocer gave me a had quarter this morning." "Let me see it." "I can't. I paid the milkman with it." Ex. Doctor—"To avoid colds a person ought to keep his mouth shut." Patient—"That is a good way to avoid a lot of other troubles, too." It was visiting day at the insane asylum. One of the inmates imagined himself to be an artist, and was busily engaged in dabbling at an empty canvas with a dry brush. A visitor, wishing to humor him, asked what the picture represented. "That!" said the nut, "is a picture of the Israelites being pursued through the Red Sea." "Where is the sea?" "Why, that's rolled back to allow the Israelites to pass." "Where are the Israelites?" "They've just gone by." "Then where are the pursuers?" "Oh, they'll be along in a minute. MacDonald and his wife stopped in front of a restaurant window, in which hung a card bearing the words: "Luncheon from 1 to 3 p.m., 40c. "We'll have our dinner here, lassie," said Mac. "Two hours' steady eating for 40 cents is not so bad." Johnnie was going at his one-day-old brother, who lay squealing and wailing in his cot. "Has he come from heaven?" inquired Johnnie. "Yes, dear." "No wonder they put him out." Voice on phone — John Smith is sick and can't attend class today. He requested me to notify Write in and tell me r. the play, "Robin Hood" which will 6.36 season at Armstrong Auditorium en an admirer of Robin Hood for a parts in Robin Hood plays. His first was in the production Douglass Fairies; Kenn was small page boy in the play. Y Santa Claus's Mexican Tour Santa Claus was officially banished from Mexico in 1930. In his stead was placed Quetzalcohuatl, the serpent with plumes, god of the ancient Aztecs, whose grinning statue may be seen in Teotihuacan, region of the pyramids, too far from Mexico. D. F. Yet Mexican children expect gifts to be left by someone on the night of December 24, and, as with children in many lands, few of them are disappointed. The Mexican Christmas festival starts earlier and lasts longer in most other countries. For nine nights before Christmas there are the "Posadas"—celebration for the nine nights that Mary and Joseph were on their journey to Bichlehem. Friends often entertain family groups during these evenings, and there is always the pretty ceremony of the young boys and girls marching around the patio with their lighted candles typifying the journey. At the march breaks up the children, even the smallest, gather on the side of the patio where the "pinata" hung. The "pinata" is a big jar containing small gifts, fruits, candies and nuts. The breaking of the pinata is followed by a dance. 1. When was the Italy-Ethiopia war actually begun? 2. Who is Amorose Caliver? 3. What noted authority on education is executive agent of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools? 4. When was Hampton Institute founded? By whom? Why? 5. When was the Bible first printed in English? 6. Who is the editor of Opportunity magazine and when was it founded? 7. Negroes bought an entire town. Where? When? At what cost? 8. Where and when was Omega Psi Phi Fraternity organized? 9. When was the last bannер year of finance for the Negro? 10. Who is the author of "God's Trombones?" 11. How many Negroes were in the United States at the end of slavery, 1865? 12. Where and when were "Jim Crow" cars originated? 13. Have any Negroes graduated from the West Point Military Academy? 14. What year directly following the World War saw blood riots in American cities? Where? 15. What caused the imprisonment and deportation of Marcell Garvey? 16. Describe the Pan American Congress? 18. How many Negroes served in the U. S. Diplomatic and Consular service? 19. What Negro inventor made the first clock in the United States? 20. Who was the first Negro to be awarded the Ph.D. degree in American College? Answers next week. you. Professor — All right, Who is this speaking?" Voice— This is my roommate." play. THE ORACLE Questions BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL Activities in the Realm of Women Only two days before Christmas! Betty paced the floor and tried to decide what to do. Just five dollars to spend. Just five dollars. She had intended to take it all and spend it on a dress—a dress to wear for Ronny. A red dress the color of holl berries. Just this once, Betty wanted to think of herself—wanted to have one happy Christmas to wipe out the memory of three other Christmas that had not been happy. But only this morning, she had stopped to speak to the little girl down stairs, and all the happiness had departed from her. For that little one had said, "No, papa says we can't have any Christmas because of the depression. But," she added, her face lighting up, "We have each other, and that's a lot." Betty couldn't forget the little girl's eyes. Once she had been a little girl like that. No, they didn't call it depression then. But she remembered the little girl who bore up bravely on a cheerless Christmas day. Her mind flitted back over the Christmases she was trying, to forget, and try as she might, Betty could not forget those three Christmases. They just seemed stuck in her memory. There was the first one when she was a very little girl—around seven or eight—at Aunt Maria's house. Aunt Maria lived in an enormous house, and detested company—although she demanded that father should have Betty and Michael his allotted (by law) six months, and that those six months should be spent in his own home, which was, of course, and had always been, with her. ASKS HELP FOR AMERICAN CHILDREN NEW YORK. (By Arden H. Duane for ANP) — Bertha H. Corbin, head of the St. Barnabas House in New York City, asks the help of all friends and well-wishers. Miss Corbin is leaving the states for Africa in a very short time and to the children in Africa she would like to carry something. She is trying earnestly and honestly to raise funds to accomplish peace and the good will spirit to these children. Will the women who are playing Santa Claus to these children, contact Bertha Corbin through Arden H. Duane, care of Associated Negro Press, 3507 South Parkway, Chicago, Ill. Let's all rally to this cause and send a merry Christmas to the children in Africa. Do You—? Know any new parlor puzzles? Have any true interesting anecdotes that you would like to tell? Have any original poetry that is not too serious? Mrs. Frazier, editor of this feature will be glad to consider such contributions. Send it to her in care of this paper. Material used will be credited. Xmas Table Decoration I have never heard of a Christmas without popcorn. Christmas isn't Christmas without popped corn. So, let's decorate the dinner table with a popcorn centerpiece. On an oval mirror build a shining pyramid of cellophane-wrapped popcorn balls. Flank this with swags of pine, tipped with popcorn snow, light it with candlelight and view the dinner table with bated breath. At each plate place popcorn baskets molded from the same corn and cirup mixture used for the balls. Line the baskets with doilies cut from red cellophane, the edges fringed prettily. Pile the basket high with candied cranberries, stem raisins, glazed popcorn and salted nuts. WANT TO MAKE MONEY? He Bought a New Car! She Bought 5 New Dresses Can you use $10 extra every month? To buy new clothes, new shoes, hats, help pay for furniture, a car and lots of other things you may have to now do without. Of course you can. Who can't these days? So I'm going to tell you how to get it—and more too—without working hard or running a penny's risk. Just fill out the coupon and mail it today. This isn't a contest. You are under no obligation. Just mail the coupon today sure. Then Do This One Thing Just read the most amazing offer you ever heard of! It will come to you by return mail if you write your name and address on the coupon and mail it to FAN TAN ANNE today. Don't wait. Don't send one penny. Be the first in your community to make this real money. Mail the coupon. It puts you in the lead to real success. Tomorrow may be too late. Only honest, reliable folks wanted. But mail the coupon now. FAN TAN ANNE, Dept. A-75 Box 3374, Chicago, Illinois Dear Fan Tan Anne: Without obligation or cost, tell me how I can easily make up to $10.00 a month, and more, just in my spare time. THE THREE CHRISTMASES By Beatrice M. Murphy Betty loved the big rambling house. She loved the wide airy attic-which contained so many things that interested her. She loved her father, although she was shy with him. She didn't love Aunt Maria. People just didn't love Aunt Maria. They obeyed her. They respected her. They admired her. But they didn't love her. That Christmas with Aunt Maria gave Betty's heart a sudden twist of pain even now. Father had gone to the one store the little country town boasted on Christmas Eve and bought Michael a new suit, but nothing for Betty. He promised to buy her a new sweater the next week. But, of course, that wouldn't be Christmas. And Aunt Maria—poor Aunt Maria, who tried so hard to be fair without wanting to appear kind, which she was always afraid people might think she was—was quite angry with father for not bringing Betty anything. But Betty had just sat in the corner and played with the rag doll she had made that day, and said nothing. She knew what she would have liked for a Christmas present. Perhaps if she had only had the nerve to ask for it, Aunt Maria would have given it to her. But Betty did not have the nerve. Up in the attic in a big box was a beautiful book of pictures—Bible pictures. Betty had been looking at it the day before, and she wanted that more than anything else in the world. It would have made her Christmas so happy, and would not have cost a cent. But she didn't have the nerve. She tried to bring the words to her lips but they wouldn't come. She wandered all the afternoon over the gloomy house thinking of that beautiful book upstairs that she wanted, but couldn't bring herself to ask for. She would sneak upstairs to the attic and take a peek at it (Aunt Maria did not like people "prowling" among her things) and then rush down stairs to ask for it. But when she looked at father and Aunt Maria's faces, she couldn't do it. "If they would just give me that," she kept telling herself, "it would seem more like Christmas, and I would be happy." But how could she explain—she a little girl of seven—to those two compaction grown-ups that she wasn't happy? They would simply stare at her. She knew it. And then she would cry and she didn't want to cry, no matter how miserable she felt—not on Christmas. But now—after all these years—Betty cried when she thought of that forlorn little child wandering over a cheerless house on Christmas day, without a stocking, a stick of candy, or even a present, and afraid to ask for the one thing that would have made that Christmas day a happy one. She had CHRISTMAS 1935 THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1935 saved the rag doll which she made that Christmas day. It was one of her most precious possessions. And of course the ironical part of it all was that before the next Christmas rolled around, Aunt Maria was dead, and when they asked Betty what she wanted as a reminder of Aunt Maria, she timidly asked for the book which was given to her. But Betty wanted it now as a memory of the dearest Christmas in her life. To her it had become a symbol of misery. And across the pages she had written: In memory of a Christmas without presents and a promise made to myself that if I ever find a little girl like me, I will see that her Christmas is made happy. Then, there was the Christmas after Michael went. Michael with the big blue eyes and solemn stare. Michael whom everybody loved. When the family sat down to Christmas dinner, it was so gloomy without Michael. No one had a word to say. Her Christmas was spent at mother's that year, and Aunt Harriet, trying to cheer things up, spoke to Doris. And Doris—poor Doris no one could blame her. She loved Michael so—burst into tears, and left the table. Of course after that, no one made any pretence of being happy. Betty sat on and ate, and couldn't tell whether she was cating sawdust or turkey. When the dinner was over, she went to her room and spent a miserable afternoon. It wasn't fair. In life Michael had been the favorite. He had everything. Somehow, people always gave their boys more. They depended on their girls to make themselves happy. And now, even in death Michael's spirit intruded and kept Betty from having a happy Christmas. And Betty hated Michael—and Christmas—and God—and even herself. Then had come the third Christmas—that Christmas which was still too near to think about without a catch of the breath. Ill, flat on her back, alone, on Christmas Presents piled high in the chair. Christmas in the hospital away from home, family and friends—too far away for even a familiar face to drop in and smile at her. Nurses and doctors trying to inject joy and cheer into a world of misery and pain, and making a hopeless muddle of it. And Betty gave herself up to the despair within her this time. She didn't know who the presents were from and didn't care. She wanted to scream and throw things at the people—kind-hearted people—who came through the hospital singing Christmas carols. Betty prayed that Christmas morning for death—and lived on. Three Christmases which had left their marks on her! And all she was asking in return was that this one be happy—But she couldn't forget the little girl's eyes that pleaded for someone to understand and perform a miracle. She couldn't forget -the childish promise written on the flyleaf of her book, that she would never reject an opportunity to prevent some little girl from being as miserable as she had been on that toy, less, treeless, cheerless Christmas. But that was before Ronny came. Before she knew how glorious love could make the world. Strange that this should happen to her—meeting the child like that. right at a time when she wanted to forget that the world held misery and pain and disappointment. And Ronny—Ronny did not look like the kind of a fellow who would understand that she could not buy a new dress to wear to the dance with him because of a little girl with tragic eyes. Ronny did not seem the kind of fellow who would understand sad things. He always liked her to smile and look nice. This was the first time he had ever asked her to go to a big affair with him—and she had nothing to wear. She had never been able to afford a party dress. She really could not do so now, but she would make it up, somehow or other. But she couldn't go without the dress—and it was so important that she go. She had been conscious of Ronny for a long time, but he was just beginning to notice her. But there was the little girl with the tragic eyes and those three Christmasmas that Betty could not forget. There was the little girl, and there was the dress. And the little girl won. Because Betty knew what lay behind tragic eyes. But she wasn't quite sure of the other. Yet, she told herself, if Ronny doesn't understand that, then he is not the man for me anyway. This did not stop her heart from beating faster and faster as she waited for Ronny to come, to take her to the dance. She should have sent him word, but it did seem to her so much fairer to talk to him face to face and try to explain. But Ronny just sat and stared at her when she tried to explain—when she tried to tell him how a pair of tragic eyes could possibly win over a bright red dress. Ronny just stared. When she had stammered it all out, he walked over to where she stood by the mantel, and said, "So that is why your eyes look so sad—and yet so sweet. You funny little thing. Tell me. what would you like more than anything else in the world for a Christmas present, if the Fates were kind enough to let you Conducted By Gertrude C. Frazier CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS FOR THE HOME By ARDEN H. DUANE Are you weary of using wreaths and bunches of holly year after year? Then try something different. There's greater fun and satisfaction in doing something out of the ordinary. Cut a few graceful branches from the old Ponderosa pine, with with a cone cluster and hang it on the doorknocker. It makes a most effective yuletide touch and it is a relief from the usual wrath. Arrange the deep somber green of yews in empire alabaster urns or white and gold tin toole pots. Or perhaps it the spiny Greek juniper needled handsomely in velvety way green. Or the silver spruce shimmering in clear sunlight or shadowed angleglow. Flat fans of arber vitae are pleasing to the eye with the merry jingle of sleigh bells swaying to and fro on the front door. Spruce up the evergreen on the door with a string of old harness bells. There is no other way to encourage genuine holiday hospitality. If you have a plain mantle in the living room, arrange Japanese juniper for a fitting scenery. The branches are neat and sleek, and so supple that they can be bent in circles around the mirror or draped to accentuate a plain mantle decoration. Cluster tiny brown cones in the very center of the arrangement. Or you can flank either side of the fireplace with a pair of soldiery Norway spruce. Plant the spruce in red buckets pasted with gold paper stains. Have them guard the rows of white stockings that are overflowing with gooey goodies. Have each stocking tied with red tulle bows for the men of the family, blue bows for the ladies of the family and green bows for the children of the family. If it's a Christmas buffer at your home this time, then cluster jolly fat pine cone trees set for radiating fans of white pine needles among the golden brown cookies and the sugar crystaled sweet-meats. They are very easy to make. On a small square cardboard place a little block or plasticine (a non-hardening modeling clay available at all dime stores). Into the sides of the clay stick the white pine needle clusters. Then place right in the center of the clay a tall straight pine cone with scales outspread. Dip the base of tiny cones in glue and stick them into the large cone openings. Be sure to keep the pine tree hhape. Pine cone gifts can also be made by you. Brush pine cones with varnish and then dip into copper sulphate. Fill red or green mosquito net bags with the treated cone and label "For the Christmas Fire." They make a delightful blue flame and a cheery crackle. Fill the large cones with melted suet, thickened with cracked corn and sunflower seeds. Birds love to perch on the feeding tray and feed deliciously into the depths. Remember that a suet-filled cone will make the birds your friends forever and a day. Touch effectively your personal cards, packages, or baskets with a bit of holiday cheer in the form of a surig of mother nature's oldest aristocracy—the evergreen, a symbol of Christmas. Mary Strong Talks TENACITY FOR SUCCESS Perhaps there are few powers possessed by men that count more than tenacity in the game of success. A man with few brains and great tenacity will go much further than one with much brains and very little tenacity. To succeed, one must "hold on." Keer at it doggedly until the goal is won. Just try sticking to your purpose and you will stand a good chance to succeed, even though you may have very limited talents. choose." "I don't understand," she whispered. How could she understand anything with Ronny so close? "Do you mean this Christmas, or any Christmas?" Then she knew she could tell him. Then she knew that Ronny would understand if she told him one thing she had prayed for to wipe out the memory of the three Christmasmasses. So she said, falteringly but reverently, "A tree full of candles and decorations, and someone I love beside me to share all the joy and light with me. O. Ronny, that's what I wanted all my life." "Don't you know," he whispered, coming even closed, "that it is not your clothes I care about. It's you, and what you are. There are plenty of bright red dresses, and plenty of other dances, but there's so little happiness in the world. Betty that I am glad you wanted to add to it. Let's go find the tree, so you can get your wish." But Betty looked up at him with skinny eyes and said, "Benny. I serve with the little girl from fairs, we have each other, and that's a lot." CHLORINE NAMED AS DISINFECTANT FOR DISHES That improperly washed dishes and silverware may cause the spread of common colds and other respiratory diseases was emphasized by Dr. James G. Cumming, chief of the Bureau of Preventable Diseases of the Health Department of the District of Columbia, following a series of experiments in forty-six restaurants in Washington, where his examiners found that the usual methods of dishwashing left from 50,000 to 100,000 bacteria on the average spoon. Instead of these methods he recommended the subjection of the utensils to an eight-minute rinse in a chlorine solution, which he found uniformly effective. The principle of the method of disinfection is simple. Chlorine in solution forms hypochlorus acid. This acid easily breaks down into hydrochloric acid and oxygen, thus becoming an oxidizing agent. The oxidizing process kills the bacteria. Dr. Cumming recommends a three-compartment method for dish washing. First, the utensils are rinsed throughly to remove all residual food particles. Then they are carried to a second compartment which contains the chlorine solution. Finally, they are rinsed in clear water to remove the odor and taste of chlorine. Transmission of such diseases as colds, influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, scarlet fever and trench mouth, through the use of infected eating implements, was first disclosed in 1917 as a result of observations at Camp Tanforan, Calif. In a study of 66,076 troops it was found that the influenza rate was 252 per 1,000 among troops which washed their mess kits individually in hot water, while the rate dropped to 51.1 per 1,000 in units which provided collective sanitary washings. Since that time health authorities have prescribed various sanitary measures for restaurants, but these have not always proved effective. The New York sanitary code provides that cooking and eating utensils shall be "properly" cleansed "in a solution of soda or suitable cleansing powder in hot water, followed by a thorough rinsing or spraying or immersion in clean boiling water (212 F.) for a period of one minute, or in hot water at a temperature of not less than 180 F. for two minutes or by sterilization with live steam." That this prescription does not always work was shown in a recent test by Columbia University of fifty-four samples of dishwater taken from ten of the city's restaurants. Dr. John Oberwager, New York Sanitary Superintendent, has expressed himself in favor of the use of chlorine in dishwashing. However, James J. Cooney, Chief Inspector of Foods, points out that such a plan cannot be expected to produce 100 per cent results because it would be impossible to maintain a 100 per cent check of restaurants to make sure that the solution was being used in sufficient strength to effect disinfection. SCHOOL FOR GERMAN PEASANT WOMEN Colored women should study the the conditions of women of other countries and races. Here are some interesting facts relative to German peasant women: A new type of school for peasant women, designed to fit them for more effective life on the soil, has been inaugurated in Germany. The "Bauerliche Frauenschule" (peasant women's school) is comparable to the American junior college in that it may either serve as a connecting link between secondary school and college, or as a terminal institution. Two classes of the school were established last May—a one-year lower division and a two-year upper division. Candidates for admittance to the lower division must have been graduated from a secondary school, and must be at least 16 years old. They are trained in such fundamental tasks as cooking, housework, farm work, gardening; sewing and bookkeeping, and also attend courses in health, nutrition, and the care of children. A second phase of the work is instruction designed to give a proper comprehension of woman's duty to the nation as well as to the family. In the upper division, to which admittance can be gained only by completing the work of the lower division, advanced courses are given in cooking, dietetics, housework, operation of light farm machinery, small husbandry, gardening, needlework, bookkeeping, biology and technology. Other courses, designed to develop leaders among the peasant women, include political economics and history of culture, as well as studies in health, heritage and the national community. Graduates of the two-year course are eligible for the "Staatsprue-fung in bauerlichen Hauswerk" (federal examination in peasants home work), after which—with two years' experience—they may christen the title of "Leadliche Haushaltspflegerin" (caretaker of a rural household). Women are not altoether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed in the world, for as much as only men have established them without their consent. - Montaigne HONEY CAKES OR BROWNIES FOR THE HOLIDAYS For the evenings that find lots of folks dropping in during the holiday week there is nothing so pleasing to the taste as are honey cakes or brownies. For honey cakes you need the following: 1½ cup walnut meats (chopped) 3½ cup cold kaffee-hag coffee 1¾ cups flour Cream butter, add honey, sugar, and egg yolks and beat until mixture is light. Stir in nut meats and vanilla. Sift dry ingredients together and beat egg whites. To the creamed mixture add the dry ingredients alternately with the kaffeefag coffee, stirring until batter is smooth. Fold in egg whites and turn into buttered cake tins. Bake at 375 degrees F., for 20 minutes, then turn down to 350 degrees F., for 15 minutes. Yield: 2 layers, 9-inch diameter. ¼ cup melted butter 1 cup granulated sugar or 1½ cups brown sugar 2 tablespoons water 2 squares chocolate A pinch of salt ¾ cup pastry flour ¼ teaspoon baking powder 1 cup Brazil nuts Beat egg slightly and stir in melted butter. Stir in sugar and add water. Beat half a minute; add melted chocolate. Add nuts, flour, salt and baking powder which have been mixed together and add to first mixture Bake in greased cake pan 23 to 30 minutes in a moderate oven, 325 degrees F. Remove from oven, cool slightly and cut into squares. GIRL 7, LOSES PART OF BRAIN IN ACCIDENT MACON, Ga. (ANP)—Although a portion of her brain was lost when she was struck down in a collision with a car Saturday, Jimmie Lee Harrison, 7, was expected to live after undergoing an immediate operation for skull fracture at Macon Hospital. The child was reported as running into an auto driven by a white man who was not held. DIES AS FIRE DESTROYS HOME COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (ANP) — Apparently trapped as he was trying to flee from the fire which destroyed his home, Fred D. Clark, 56, was burned to death Saturday morning. The blaze evidently started from a kerosene lamp and burned so fiercely firemen were unable to penetrate the building and con- fined their attempts to preventing its spread to neighboring structures. Oysters for the Holidays If you've been neglecting fresh oysters in your meal-planning, just try a big fresh oyster stew. Your taste will be delighted and you will want to have this delicious dish again as well as other fresh oyster dishes. , Yes, fresh oysters are a welcome variation in the menu — economical in price and easy to prepare, and remember that fresh oysters abound in elements that your system needs. Fresh oysters can be bought from your dealer delicious, tender and wholesome. Oyster Stew % cups butter 1 pint oysters 1 quart milk 1½ teaspoons salt Pepper 1 teaspoon paprika Melt butter, ad oysters, and cook three minutes, or until edges curi- Add milk, salt, pepper and paprika and bring almost to the boiling point and serve at once with oyster crackers Here are two more proven recipes: Scalloped Oysters 5 tablespoonsful butter 4 cups soft bread crumbs 1 tablespoonsful lemon juice 1¼ teaspoons salt 1 pt. oysters Pepper Melt the butter, add crumbs and seasonings and mix well. Drain oysters and arrange in alternate layers with the buttered crumbs in a greased baking dish. Bake twenty minutes in a hot oven, 450 degrees F Fried Oysters 3 dozen raw oysters 1 cup fine bread crumbs, cracker or corn meal. ½ teaspoonful salt 2 eggs 1 tablespoonful water Pepper Drain oysters and dry between towels. Dip in seasoned crumbs, egg diluted with water and then in crumbs again. Fry in deep fat, 385 degrees F., until golden brown. Drain on soft paper and serve with tartar sauce or ketchup ARMSTRONG A demonstration of instrumental work in music was afforded Armstrong pupils by the Community Center Music Department, at the regular music assembly on Monday, December 9. Alfred H. Johnson, director of music in the public schools, explained the purpose and set-up of the after-school classes which the Community Center is sponsoring in connection with the schools. Mrs. Evelyn Russ, one of the teachers in the Community Center music work, gave a short vocal recital. The English 8 class, under the direction of Mrs. H. B. Allen, conducted a mock trial of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth for the murder of Duncan. The trial took place at the class hour on Wednesday and Thursday mornings of last week. The attorneys for the prosecution were Leslie Shelton and Bernice Minor; for the defense, Robert Bishop and Bertha Hutchison. Robert Fields acted as judge. At the Honor Award assembly on Wednesday, John Landers, who made the honor emblem when he was a student at Armstrong, was the speaker. Mr. Landers talked on the advantages of technical and scholastic education. Section 13 of which Mrs. E. S. Burrell is the home-room teacher, received the award for having the largest number of pupils with an "A" average. Lula Logan, who had received all A grades, accepted the emblem for the section. Other honor pupils were Iris Askins, Beatrice Brown, Dorothy Johnson, Norma Harris, Annie Gordon, Margaret Wilner, and Serena Randall. Section 15 had five members on the honor roll. These are Edith Smith, Minnie Tate, Lois Watkins, Louise Watkins and Mildred Watkins. Mrs. K. J Lane is the home-room teacher. FRANCIS The sale of Christmas cards has begun and the Francis Junior High School Post Office has been opened by the Red Cross Club. The club is also collecting clothing, toys, and food for distribution to needy families at Christmas. The expression of the spirit of helping others, as emphasized in the Red Cross Club, has already resulted in the collection and distribution of 32 baskets at the Thanksgiving season and in the donation recently of 43 pounds of tinfoil to D. J. Kaufman for the benefit of the Home for Incurables. Elmer Washington and James Carter, Section 7A3, and James Cohen, of the senior class, assisted the club in setting up the Post Office. The Red Cross Club works under the direction of Mrs. M. L. Cuney. Ninth-grade music classes recently enjoyed the visited of Mr Alston Burleigh who gave a talk on music and musicians and played several piano selections. Lorraine Gaskins, 8A1, and Elaine Waters, 9A1, have had their original Christmas poems published in the school paper, the Magnet. Preparation is being made for the presentation of the pageant "Nativity" which will be given as a part of the Christmas program. The boys' choir will be one of the features. Section 8B1 recently presented "The Case of Matthew Mattix," at an assembly period. Pupils taking part in and assisting with the presentation were Anna Ray, Hildegrade Harley, Dorothy Washington, Evelyn Hackett, Eva Branch, Julia Green, Lorraine Butler, Dorothy Parker, Lawrence Byrd, Virginia Gray, Clayton Gray, William Brown, George Nelson, Edward Fox, Raymond Green, Gilbert Bigelow, Julia Green, Mozelle Reynolds, Lillian Jefferson, Leonard Jones, Joseph . Ashton, James Mayes, James Goodwin, Louis Jackson, Everette Smith, Milton Hamilton, Tillar Bowman, Wilbur Brice, John Jackson, Clarence Harris, Eugene Aikens, Thomas Taylor, and George Thomas. Miss H. J. Moore was in charge. SHAW A final check on the contribution of the pupils for the Thanksgiving baskets revealed that 109 baskets were distributed to needy families and the following institutions: St Anna's Episcopal Home, A. M. E. Home, and Home for the Blind. The following pupils helped Miss A. S. Payne in this piece of works: Vernon Talbert, Ralph Pyror, Ashton Robinson, Wendell Gardner, Roy Ellis, Quentin Cyrus, St. Clair Lee, Roland Brown, Fabian Labat, Luther Johnson, Billie Harris, Alonzo Jervay, Domingo Lanaue, and Stephen Lewis. On Thursday morning Mrs. B.H. Collins and her section, 9A7, sponsored a musical program. They presented The Junior Violin Ensemble under the direction of Louia Vaughn Jones, head of the Violin Department of Howard University. The group numbers as well as the solos were well rendered. The following boys participated: Israel Crim, Annette Ewell, George Butcher, Grimshaw Olive, John Phillips, Daniel Smith, Raymond Thomas. Mordecai John- son, Ferol Gibbs, Ernest Smith, Norman Harris, Charles Tignor, Darnley Howard. This program was presented as a tribute to Joseph H. Douglass, pioneer Negro violinist, who died recently. A playlet, deeply significant of the true Christmas spirit, was presented by Section 7A2 under the sponsorship off Miss N. M. Quander The parts were played by: Juanita Qelch, Marguerite Briscoe, Lois Carpenter, Geneva Bell, Evelyn Stevenson. The class officers who gave special assistance were: Frances Munthes, Thelma Patterson, Mayone Hutchins, Anita Ford, Veriene Franklin, and Julia Black. GARNET PATTERSON Students of the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School engaged in a series of pre-Christmas activities. Among the most impressive of these was the Garnet-Patterson Christmas Post Office, conducted by the girl patrols, under the sponsorship of Mrs. D. P Beckley. These girls collected, assorted and distributed hundreds of post cards which were transmitted by students to their friends in various sections. In addition to this they sold Christmas seals to render the activity more realistic. Another activity was an exhibit of Mexican furniture and articles presented by Mrs. G. D. Edmonson, Spanish teacher, who spent several months in Mexico during last summer. Christmas Carois were sung in four languages: English, French, Latin and Spanish. Mrs. F. H. Douglass and Mrs. L. H. Johnson trained the students in English; Mrs. E. B. Sutton in French, Mrs. A. H. Eaton and Mrs. C. H. Grant in Latin, and Mrs. G. D. Edmonson in Spanish This constituted one of two music assemblies which occurred during the latter part of the week. The other assembly repeated music rendered by students at the recent Parent-Teacher meeting, under the sponsorship of Mrs. Douglass and Mrs. Johnson and was supplemented by a clarinet trio by three students—Sterling Thomas, Jason Grant and Francis Mackey. These clarinetists are members of an out-of-school class, under A. E. Smith. For the sixth consecutive Christmas, the school conducted its most altruistic activity, of the year in the form of a Christmas rally. Quantities of food, clothing and toys were donated by students and teachers. Christmas trees were furnished both in the cafeteria and on the Vermont Avenue and U Street balcony. The latter is electrically lighted and is intended as a community tree. It will remain lighted in its niche through Christmas week. The cafeteria sold turkey plates to students at 10 cents each. Finally, several of the homerooms and private parties for students, either in their rooms or in the cafeteria around the tree. Christmas trees were decorated by O. J. Burke and W. H. Payne. Boy patrols and stage crew assisted in placing decorations and in maintaining supervision during these extra activities. BROWNE On Friday, December 13 at assembly period the Healthy Living Club of section 7A3 presented a first aid playlet in three scenes. The first scene was laid in the new gymnasium at Browne where Jacqueline Crawford, Dorothy Major, Anita Harrison, Roberta Spencer, William Jane White, Marie Harper, Rachel Pierce, and Caroline Farral demonstrated various health-aiding exercises. Sylvia Barbour executed an athletic dance in the next scene. The boys of the club including Robert Hawkins, Walter Patton, Wellington Murray, James Page, Harold Bennett, William Morris, Sylvester Xates, Claster Pierce, Fred Jones, Garnett Hammond, and Robert Clemens, demonstrated playground activities. Miss Gibson sponsors the Healthy Living Club. The Thrift Club of Mrs. Owen's section, whose members have been saving money for Christmas, were presented their Christmas checks on Monday. The total number of depositors was sixteen. The deposits amounted to $24.63, the largest single deposit being $5. The depositors were Alexander Harding, John Hunter, Earl Payne, Yvonne Campbell, Leonard Jenkins, Lawrence Lee, Willistine Garnett, Helen Humphrey, Alonzella Burke, Marguerite Bryant, Izetta King, Annie Harling, Herman Wilson, George Branch, and James Meeks. Clifton Anderson is the president of the Thrift Club and presented the checks Wednesday, December 18, was celebrated as Basket Day. Each section presented a basket of food to be given to a needy family of the Browne community. Mrs. Scott sponsors this program annually. The foreign language classes under the direction of their teachers, Miss Davis, Mrs. Atkins, and Mrs. N. P. Johnson, sang carols in French, Spanish, and Latin to supplement the program. On Thursday the Library Club presented the play "The Birds' Christmas Carol." Mrs. Houston is the club sponsor. Sections 8B7 and 8A5 closed the Christmas celebration on Friday with a Candle Light Service Miss Welch and Mrs. Houston aided their sections McDonald's LIQUOR STORE Wishes to All Its Patrons and Friends THE HEARTIEST SEASON'S GREETINGS and A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR Earl H. McDonald's Choice Wines and Liquors 1235 You St., N.W. Phone Dec. 3400 BISHOP RANSOM BACKS ETHICPIA WILBERFORCE, Ohio—Bishop Beverdy C. Ransom, of the A.M.E. Church, backs Ethiopia in a strong statement made here. He says: "The Ethiopians are a Negroid people, and in that sense they have a kinship with Negroes throughout the world. The wanton assault of Italy, under Mussolini, upon the sovereignty and freedom of Ethiopia is not only a challenge to the League of Nations, but more. "It is a challenge to the sincerity and loyalty to Jesus Christ of Christian leadership in Europe and America. The Pope has thus far failed to rally the faithful to support justice and righteousness for the weak against the strong." "Americans of African descent who are politically free should be vigilant and active to keep our government on the side of international justice and peace. By prayers and by money, all of us should help Ethiopia in this fateful hour." INSURANCES JOIN IN NEW ORLEANS INSURANCES JOIN IN NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS, LA. (ANP) Only the signing of agreements by the Secretary of State stands in the way of another insurance merger in New Orleans. The Louisiana Industrial Life Insurance Company of New Orleans, one of the largest colored companies in the state, has agreed to take over the Eagle Industrial Life Insurance Company, also of New Orleans, re-insuring its businesses and putting up the required reserve. The Board of the latter company has unanimously agreed to sell at the Louisiana's price in order to safeguard the policy holders. This makes the second company taken over by the Louisiana during the current year. On September 5 it assumed the obligations of the O. K. Industrial Company. Henderson Skips Russia in Church Appraisal NEWTON CENTER, Mass. — The Rev. J. Raymond Henderson, pastor of Wheat Street Baptist Church of Atlanta, Ga., who is on leave studying at Andover-Newton Theological Seminary, skips Russia in appraising the "Church of Today." The Rev. Henderson says: "I can think of nothing more descriptive of the place of the church in the life of today than the words which Jesus selected from the prophecy of Isaiah for his initial sermon: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; for he hath consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release from captives and to set free the oppressed, to procevery of sight for the blind, chain the Lord's year of favor." "If the church takes its lead from Jesus, it will consider its function the liberation of the economically, socially, politically morally, and spiritually disinmodern society the world over, herited elements to be found in with one possible exception, that being Russia." Herndon Thanks Friends For Support; Back In New York Herndon Thanks Friends For Support; Back In New York NEW YORK. (ANP) — Arriving here from Atlanta, where he was freed on bond after Judge Hugh Dorsey calbed the law under which he was convicted, unconstitutional, Angelo Herndon publicly thanked those who had stood by him since his arrest and incarceration in Georgia. "I want to give recognition to the splendid work of Anna Damon, I. L. D. secretary, Norman Thomas and Mary Fox in forging the united front around my case — and the harmonious work of the entire joint defense committee which has secured over a million protest signatures to send to Governor Talmadge against the insurrection law for my freedom," he said. News of Nearby Virginia FAIRFAX, VA. Py PAULINE ANDERSON Miss Myrtle Burke, daughter of Mr. Gus Burke and the late Mrs. Elizabeth Burke, was married to Floyd Payne of Fairfax, last week. The Rev. Richard F. Carter officiated at the wedding held Wednesday at the home of the Rev and Mrs. Carter in Washington. Miss Annabelle Williams of Vienna and Lewis Morality of Fairfax acted as maid of honor and best man, respectively. A reception at the home of the groom's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Payne of Fairfax, followed the nuptials. Among the guests Mr. and Mrs. James Booker, Mr. and Mrs. James Payne, Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw Groomes, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Groomes, Mrs. Gertrude Hunter, Mrs. Virginia Harris, Mrs. Carrie Conie, Luvenia Morarity, Mrs. Ellen Gray, Mrs. Amelia Paige, Mrs. Georgia Chambers, Miss Martha Melvin, Misses Virginia and Dorothea Groomes, Miss Lottie Paige, Miss Ella Overton, Miss Willie May Newman all of Fairfax. Miss Hazel Steward of Arlington, Miss Edna Foster of Washington. Mrs. Edith Turner of Merryfield, Gus Burke, Raymond Burke, Evert Hunter, George Hunter, Wilson and Barrymore Anderson, William and George Colbert, Warren and Lloyd Morarity, Samuel Diggins, William Martan, Horton Newman. Alana Payne, Taten Payne, Archie Marshall, Lester Pane, all of Fairfax, and Clarence Hawkins of Washington. Mrs. Martha Groomes entertained Sunday at dinner the Rev. R. S. Carter, Mrs. Georgia Chambers, Mrs. Luvenia Morarity, Miss Maggie Payton, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Groomes, Bert Groomes and Frankie Williams of East Woodford, Va. Miss Maggie Payton entertained the Execsior Club and choir at her home Wednesday. The Dental Clinic for the school opened Monday. Mrs. Ela Marshall is visiting her sister, Mrs. Martha Hedgeman in Washington. Abb Henderson, old resident of Vienna, died Sunday at the Fairfax Jail where he was serving a sentence. Marshall Lucas was week-end guest of his sister and brother, Mrs. Ellen Grey and Clarence Lucas. Lewis Ellis, a resident of Culpeper and local barber, who has been confined to his bed in now back at work. The Rev. Richard F Carter, pastor of Mount Calvary Baptist Church, held Communion Sunday. A oyster supper was given at the School House, Saturday night, for the benefit of the M. E. Church, the Rev. John Carrol of Falls Church pastor. The Fairfax Quartette participated on the program held at the Galloway M. E. Church Sunday Master William Payne who has been on the sick list is out again. Mrs. Sarah Payne is still ill. Mrs Susan Perry who has been in bed with pneumonia is much improved. Master Frank Anderson is on the sick list. Herndon, Va. Mrs Virginia Jackson, of Herndon, accompanied by he two young daughters, Josephine and Blanche, spent Wednesday in Washington shopping and visiting friends. Mrs. Nannie W. Bush and her sister, Mrs. Ada W. Lee, were called to Washington last week on account of the illness of their brother, Mr. George Williams. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Shirley entertained at a birthday dinner on last Sunday, in honor of their daughter, Pearl. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. James Perry, Mrs. Mae Ware, Curtis Smith. O. L. Talbert, Mr. and Mrs. Marion C. Peters, Harvey M. Shirley, all of Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Nannie W. Bush, of Herndon, and Clarence F. Shirley. Mrs. Etta R. Coates has returned to Herndon after spending a pleasant week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Mack Green, of Passing, Virginia. Mrs. Albert Bush, and her daughter, Miss Rietta, and Mrs. Lawrence Lee, of Florida, spent last Wednesday shopping in Washington. C. G. Jones spent last Sunday in Washington. Richmond, Va. Wall Street Beneficial Club members were feted by A. O. Price, Jr., at its last meeting of the year at Prince Hall last Monday. This club is considered one of the oldest here. Independent Social Club names officers The following officers were announced by the I.S.C., or 1936 last week: Alfred O. Payne, financial secretary; Thomas E. Stone, treasurer; Martin Christian, reporter; Frank Taylor, chaplain; John Lomas, conductor; Carl Banks, doorkeeper; Ernest Henderson, chairman sick committee; Robert Moss, librarian; Zack W. Landis, Jr., chairman of the board of directors. It was announced that the club has many entertainments for the coming year. A hog killing contest was held at the Fourth Baptist Church Monday under the auspices of he Sunday School. An elaborate program was rendered. James S. Christian was master of ceremonies. Participants were the William Lodge Eks Band and recitation by Mrs. Thelma Henderson. Four prizes were awarded. The first prize was a 10-pound ham awarded to Miss Bernice Wooderge; second prize to Miss Jeanette Jones, a 5-pound shoulder; third prize was a hog head to Mrs. Salie Britten; fourth prize, four hog feet to Mrs. Gladys Stovis. James S. Christian is superintendent of the Sunday School. The St. Luke members unveiled the head stone at the grave of Mrs. Maggie L. Walker at Evergreen Cemetery. An elaborate musical tea was given by the Richmond Poro Club in honor of Mrs. Anna M. Malone, head of the Poro College of Chicago, at the home of Mrs. Florence Barrett, 304 E. Leigh Street, last Sunday from 5 to 7 o'clock. Mrs. Maude R., Roberson was mistress of ceremonies. Among the guests were Mrs. Nannie L. Allen, Blanch R. James, Annie M. Malone, Rosa Myers, Miss Evelyne Gresham, Miss Helen Dawson, Mrs. Bertha Carter, Miss Lillian Randolph, Mrs Mary Nerille, Mrs. Polli Harris, Mrs. Ella Nelson, Mrs. R. B. Sampson and Mrs. Eunice Ruse. Among the out of town persons present beside Mrs. Annie M. Malone were Mrs. Evelyn Graham from Poro School in New York; Mrs. Rosa Myer from the Poro School, in Baltimore; Frank Browning: John Neal of the Poro College, Chicago. The graduating exercises were held at the Fifth Baptist Church last Monday night. Mrs. Mary Reid was mistress of ceremonies; Miss Helen Dawson, instructor; Walter Graves, pianist; Mrs. Manewa Smith, in charge of ushers. The entertainment was under the auspices of the Pastor's Aid Club, of which Mrs. Amy C. Smith is chairman. Joseph Matthews was director. The graduates were Miss Louise Carter, Miss Virginia Friend, Mrs. Willie Mace Hood, Mrs. Lurina Clifton Forge, Va. CLIFTON FORGE, Va.—The Rev. F. H. Austin, F. K. Pierce and others are planning a campaign to aid needy persons on Christmas. The local Hi Y Club is taking an active part. The Rev. R. J. Watson is planning to hold services at Main Street Baptist Church, at 6 a.m. Christmas morning. Teachers at the high school are complaining about students throwing firecrackers in the classrooms. Students decorated the classrooms last Wednesday. Prof. D. C. Jones is spending the holiday season in Atlanta, Ga. Miss Viola Charlton is visiting in Ralford; Prof. S. H. Clarke, in Lynchburg, and Miss C. Reid in Easton, Va. Don Albert and his orchestra disappointed the patrons at the Place Hall last Thursday by not showing up. Major Johnson, the local dance promoter, was recently disappointed by Jimmy Gunn's orchestra which failed to keep an engagement with the dance patrons. In the meantime the Locklayer's Rhythm Boys, of Roanoke, are gaining popularity here. At present the band is in New Jersey, but will be in Lexington, Va. during the holidays. The Clifton Forge correspondents wishes The Tribune readers a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Brandy, Va. BRANDY, Va.-Herman Kemper entertained a number of friends last Saturday at a birthday party. A program will be presented Friday, December 27, at the Shiloh Baptist Church or the benefit of needy persons. Mrs. Jane Gray Banks is in charge of the program. Mrs. Rosa Lightfoot is confined to her home on account of illness. Fred Gray spent some time visiting his sister, Mrs. Jane Gray Banks, last Tuesday. Smoot Harper. of Washington visited his family here last week. end THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1935 Johnson, Mrs Blache James, Mrs Katie Wells, Miss Maggie Worthy, Miss Lettle Walker, Mrs. Anna Ricks, Mrs. Adele Anderson, Mrs. Nannie Lee Allen, Mrs. Maggie Pradley, Mrs. Ben Cooper, Mrs. V. H. Edmards, Mrs. Gertrude Fauldind, Mrs. Bettie Haden, Mrs. Eleanor Hicks, Mrs. Markaret Marvis, Mrs. Mary E. Neville, Mrs. Lillian Randolph, Mrs. Estelle Savage, Mrs. Bertha Carter, Mrs. Maggie Jackson, Mrs. Marian Smith, Miss Grace Howlett, Mrs. Daisy Brown, Mrs. Mary Nelson, Mrs. Ada Ham, Mrs. Adele Durr, Mrs. Ia James, Mr. Virgie Miles, Mrs. Helen Robinson. The reception of Mr. and Mrs Raymond Graham was held at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Deare. The bride before her marriage December 4 was Miss Adalena Deare. The bride with wore rhinestone accessories. Those received with Mr. and Mrs. Graham were: Mrs. Eunice Eggleston, Mrs. Cecil Graham, Mrs. Evelyn Scott, Miss. Juanita Jackson, Miss Manie Peterson, Miss Rayne Howard, Miss Ethel Tomas and Miss Fannie Stalings. They were recipients of many gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Graham will be home to their friends after December 23, at 605 N. Third Street. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rowe, Mr and Mrs Benjamin Taylor, Mr. and Mrs Hezikiah Charity, Mr. and Mrs Christopher Jones, Mr. and Mrs John Hill, Mr. and Mrs Walter Pondexter, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sallee, Rev. and Mrs. E. E. Smith Rev. W. L Ransome, Mr. and Mrs William Pride, Mr. and Mrs. Wm A. Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Graham, Mrs. Eliza Cox, Mrs. Ella James, Mrs. Ida Gray, Mrs. Lucy Williams, Mrs. Lillie Brooks, Mrs. Lairy Parham, Mrs. Violet Darden Mrs. Eugertha Jackson, Mrs. Arnita Mosby, Mrs. Ora Henry, Mrs Uria Miller. Miss Martha Fowlkes, Mrs Willie Lewis, Mrs Ella Foy, Mrs Lealur Lomax, Mrs Phillis Hill, Miss Evelyn Stallings, Miss Laura Booker, Miss Belle Boyd, Miss Sarah Pelham, Miss Juett Johnson, Mrs Marion Anderson, Miss Mildred Norrell, Miss Audrey Bradford, Miss Thelma Howard, Miss Alma Baker, Robert Turner, Wesley Sweet, Russell Gilpin, George Wood, Joseph Crittendon, George Scott, Harrison Deane, Robert Brent, James Edwards, John Armstrong, Robert Howlett, John Ford, Abel Deane, Jr., Abel Deane, Sr. Ernest Taylor, Jr., Walter Lee, Wendel Foster Robert H. Scott, Waddell Eddleton, Norman White, Walter Braxton, Walter Jones, Llayal Henderson Royal Henderson, Thomas Coleman, Leonard Eggleston, Charles Booker, Charles Lewis, William A. Gray, Edwin Mitchell, Chester Brown, Samuel Gatewood, Eldridge Johnson, Leroy Hazel and Mr. and Mrs. Gray. ALDIE. VIRGINIA By C. H. WILLIS Berkley Bowman motored to Washington with J. W. Allen, December 15, to join his wife, Mrs. Etta Bowman and returned home with his daughter, Miss Ann Bowman, who has been a patient in the Gallinger Hospital. Miss Fedora Thornton spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. Addie Thornton. Since the sudden sickness and death of her son, Richard Hall, Mrs. Jane Hall is now living with her younger son, Albert Hall. Mrs. Mary Allen is now spending a vacation in Philadelphia Miss Mabel Dixon, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Stanley Dixon, and Webbie Johnson, were married in Leesburg, December 14. Beverly Thomas is now at his residence for the winter. Miss Edelia R. Willis is home with her parents, C. H. Willis and Mrs. Rosa Willis. FREDERICKSBURG, VA. By CARTER M. BROWN Miss Juanita Matthews of Snell High School faculty has returned to her school after spending several days in Washington with her ill mother. Mr. and Mrs. F. Dangus of New Bern, N.C., are holiday guests of Mrs. Dangus's father, F. D. Bowes. Mrs. Lawrence Henry is confined to her bed. Mrs. Stella Tate is also ill. Miss Iva Fairchilds and Willi: B. Washington were married Sunday by the Rev. B. W. Hester at the parsonage. Invitations of the masque dance to be given by the Vogue Club on December 31 have been issued. The Dragon Club's annual dance will be held December 30. Mrs. G. M. King is out after her recent illness. Mrs. Hattie Brown is still convalescing. Mrs. Winslow Grayson has returned from school for the holidays. What use is a battleship when they can't get at each other to scrap on account of the bombing planes? Open All Day Christmas Day NATIONAL LIQUOR STORE 2003 14th St. N. W. — at 14th and U Sts. ONE CENT SALE AS ADVERTISED FRIDAY IN THE TRIBUNE, DAILY NEWS AND WASHINGTON HERALD CONTINUED THROUGH CHRISTMAS DAY BY POPULAR DEMAND Merry Christmas NATIONAL LIQUOR STORE — 2003 14th ST. N. W. MORRIS L. MUTRAY Here it is Christmas, and with it it goes the same old gab about "it's better to yive than to receive." We hear it from the pulpits to the schools, and yet there are so many column readers who worry you nut for some publicity, and when the 25th comes around, they don't even send a card. They can gatahel.... Things look very tough for Santa Claus. Even the sassiety folks' kids are making eight hours per day for Uncle Sam'wn at the post office during the Christmas rush. Among the reliefs we find: William Bullock (cadet colonel), Percy Pitts, George Scurlock, Raymond Lewis, Louis Cook, James Taylor, Moir Olden, James Henderson, William McNeil, George Minor, Robert Hawkins, Danette Harrod and Joseph Martin... Vernon Davidson's plans for a huge Christmas box to Ethel Whaley have diminished to a Woolworth card... Insults from from Mom... Whoops... Marguerite Pearson gets a gold ticker from her latest prom-trotter. The biscuit was intended for one Julia Mae Bragg but talk about walking aisles changed the receivership. Ketch it?...Charles Branch brags to follow post office help that Pauline Hart accepted his invitation to the O.C.O.'s swinger, while Thomas Parks stood amazed. It was those same fellow workers who spread it... It's the yarn in hi-brow circles that "Dub" Bullock, of the Dunbar tin soldier ranks, asked Pauline Murray please to accept an invitation from Duaine Wells for the coming uptuys hon... The Armstrong High School rates "thanks a million" from the poor kids who lodge near the school. The entire student body played Santa to the neighborhood; and right across the street at Dunbar (where the biggies send their precious ones), the student body was cut into two classes, namely, ski. who attended classes in order to give their classmates dime presents, and those young men who left school to swell the post office relief lines. It seems as though all the hibrows' offsprings are among the relief workers...my alma mammy... Harry Alexander tries to clear himself of the oldest situation in the world. The backstreet gal hints for a Christmas box, while the one he fronts to and fro is in the dark. She, too, wants something that's terrible on the pay envelope... Julia Barrett and Gwendolyn Penn pailed it to the Carolinas (S.) Friday night. And while speaking of way down in the Southland. Negroes pull down train window curtains to duck well-aimed bricks hurled by angry ofay citizens, while steaming through hick burgs. Tolson, the photog, will probably join the pair in the town that Grant ruined.... Ella Sands blaus about a hilltopper who sees her only by the monthly plan... Corinne Daniels goes to visit her granny in the oil state (Pa.)... Ernest Williams, who next to Dizzy Vance, can probably hustle anything from magazines to silk stockings, is sale talking with next year's calendars. Maybe Sylvia Rich's Christmas present requires some extra chonge. Things I never learned in school (because U Street fascinated me): That the most popular guy in town is the one who keeps his auto full of gas, and is always rarin't to go... That a newspaper man is the most conceived mug in town—and his hat looks like 'saw the sinking of the battleship Maine... That the most popular joint in Washington is the one that has a license license and is The Voice of Alexandria 3v EDDIE NEWMAN "Flash! The Parker-Gray Affair Hello Hometowners! Again this is your hated friend bringing you what's what and who is who in the home.... FLASH. Attended the dance party last Friday night... local high school and I must say... every thing velly much to the like. Yowsir, the old place was rea- decorated for the occasion, beauti- fully colored paper everywhere lights covered and if my memory serves me right, there were ever a couple of Christmas trees and a bell taking its bow, along with the rest of the decorations... And if your memory serves you right, this was quite a contrast to the last dance that was covered by this telltale critic... FLASH.... Spied the young Lawyer Tucker dancing quite a bit with the lovely Miss Carter, a school teacher of that building, all which sets this mind to wondering... And still among the teachers we find the attractive Mrs. Keys whirling around the floor with hubby.... Also we see the former Miss Marie Thomas gracefully prancing around the boards... Had the pleasure of dancing with the velly lovely Miss Vioa Evans and kept wondering how could she be any relation to Buddie Evans, the hometown trucker at all dances and parties. She so very quiet and being so noisy trying to imitate that Harlem craze... FLASH.... Could not understand just why one Mrs. Coulton Dean of the Capital Southland Orchestra, would persist in beating his traps so very, very loud during numbers that were supposed to be played so velly smooth... Please the next time, Mr. Dean, let us hear some of the other instruments besides that Ethiopian war drum... Nuf sed... Well it looks like we can at last award Herbert Turner an orchid for his swell solo act during the evening. Also we add another one for Ralph Lane... and incidently we notice these two gents came to the affair without their girl friends. Probably so that they could spend more time on the music instead of craning their necks about the floor trying to watch their better halves... At this moment we might add, that we did have better music for some reason or other... FLASH.... Overheard Miss Mile Anderson, telling Orlando Thawton that he was too short for her to dance with. We question as to whether that was the proper thing to do. It seems as if the young lady could have at least declined very politely, instead of perhaps hurting the lad's feelings... This columnist always like to see the right thing done at the right time and in the right place... Hence his kicking against such social practices. FLASH... Over in the corner, we spied John Stanton, busily taking notes concerning the hometowners. He, you know, is a recent addition to this paper. As the evening grows late we find our hometown boy again (Morris Murray) bidding for honors as a baton swinger. As he does this, we can see out of the located miles from U Street.... That taxicab drivers, when handed a quarter for a 29-cent hair-raisin' race through congested streets, never have the nickle change—the racketeers.... That string of college degrees only means more writing for the fellow who is filling out a "G" blank for a messenger' job....That a barber shop is the correct place to spill your woes in—the customers crave it....If you take the Elks' Home out of Alexandria, the burg would be in the same condition of Sunday newpapers without the funny sheet....That citizens have stopped putting pennies in church and put them on the numbers; so we find preachers doing the town with street-car passes and number barons riding in expensive cars....That the best printer can be located in the nearest speakeasy....Read the "Rag" every Tuesday.... corner of an eye one Wesley D. Elam rolling in laughter at the lad's clownish antics... And that is one time we don't find him quoting one of Mr Holmes's favorite poems, in which the ending lines goes something like this, quote. "You are a liar, you are a liar, you are a sneak and you know it" . . . Enough said . . . And as we leave this affair, this scribe takes great pleasure in presenting orchids to whoever gave the dance. "Random Moments FLASH. . .During a bedroom scene, Sunday night, we learned to Mr. Murray tell just how he is in love all over again with the same girl. When it gets you that bad its high time to walk the middle aisle. Says me... Also on Sunday night we saw Dr. Skinner, assistant at the corner drug store, dishing out ice-cream because the soda boy is busily engaged with his heart interest... So kind of the good doctor not to stop the love chatter. We hear Mr. Dove broadcasting around that there is to be no midnite show. That is bad because the show house is one place we counted on, to top off the evening. Incidentally though, this Sunday there is going to be a stage show featuring all of the hometown talent. The biggest show of the year and you can bet, your writer is going to be present. Come on around and spend an enjoyable evening... Or you might come around just to throw a few rotten eggs at this humble servant for writing such trash as the weekly column is made of... FLASH... We hear Leo, owner of the green coupe, complaining because his car was called a taxi several editions age. We exend our sorrow. Also we hear for a couple of days, that the Wilson-Murphy romance is broken up because of his name being linked with the lovely Helen Lewis, not so long ago. But we see him calling on her Sunday and so the rumor does not last... So glad that both parties found out some way that this chatter is only in fun, although velly true... Incidentally the same article is bringing forth iyens stars from the attractive Helen. Perhaps because of the Washington heart interest, James Watts... Things like these is the reason why a columnist does not have many friends and that is because some of the best news of a column often involves those human beings known as friends. And Now. Orchids To One Mr. Nelson for his clear understanding that the article involving Miss Carrie Nelson was in fun and not as an insult. And why do I mention that, well because some of my so called friends, last Sunday nite, attempted to arouse a fighting spirit in the lad against yours truly... And that is also the reason why your writer travels alone most of the time. People who call themselves friends are only waiting for the chance to knife you in the back, as an old saying goes... Sad but true... Add orchids for Miss Ellen Carter for her wonderful organ solo last Sunday night at the Young People's Evening Hour at Alfred Street Baptist Church. More orchids for Miss Lauretta Johnson for her delightful reading on the same program... Another orchid to the pastor for giving the church over to the young people for their program... And last of all an orchid to myself for signing off. So long. R. B. DE FRANTZ SPEAKS TO "Y" GROUP IN NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS, La. (ANP)—R. B. DeFrantz, of the National Council, Y.M.C.A., New York City, who has just completed several successful membership campaigns in the West and Southwest, stopped off here to attend a dinner given in his honor by the Dryades Street Branch Y.M.C.A. Mr. DeFrantz is expected to return to New Orleans at an early date to help in the expansion of the "Y" program here. BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL "Random Moments NEW YORK — Soldiers of the famous Tenth Cavalry enjoy "an honor" in being selected to care for the horses used by the Army War College and the general staff, according to a letter received by the NAACP from the adjutant general's office of the War Department. The War Department letter was in answer to an inquiry by the NAACP about the duties of the Tenth Cavalry and the status of combat troops in the regalair The War Department letter declared the Twenty-fourth Infantry at Fort Benning, Ga., was under arms and was equipped with all troop material. The letter also declared that, in the viewpoint of the army, all service ranked the same, whether in combat troops or labor battalions. It stated that some white combat troops had been assigned to labor battalion duties. The letter admitted that members of the Tenth Cavalry have not participated in military maneuvers for the past three years. The letter dodged the question as to why men of the machine gun troop of the Tenth Cavalry were used as groom's on private polo ponies in Washington. Falls Church, Va. Mr. and Mrs. J. W Ramey was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Henderson. Mr. and Mrs. Will Dixon, Mrs. Bertha Gracon, Mr. and Mrs. William White of Washington were also guests. A surprise birthday party was given in honor of Mrs. Matilda Dixon, Thursday. The guests included Mrs. Lizzie Smith of Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jones, Mrs. Bertha Linwood, Mr. and Mrs. N. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gracon, Roy Turner, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Turner. The Busy Dozen Club held its closing meeting of the year at the residence of Mrs. Fannie Rishardson. Thursday The choir of the Second Baptist Church under the direction of Mrs. Alberta Turner and the quartette of the church under the leadership of Talbert Thomas entertained patients of the St. Elizabeth Hospital last Monday Many Falls Church citizens accompanied the singers to the hospital. The pastor, the Rev. W. E. Costner, preached at both morning and evening services, at the Second Baptist Church, Sunday. Angelo Herndon to Speak At Annual NAACP Meet NEW YORK—Angelo Herndon, who has twice escaped being placed on a chain-gang in Georgia, will be the principal speaker at the annual mass meeting of the NAACP here Sunday, January 5. Herndon will speak on the Scottshoro case, which is scheduled to be tried again in Alabama beginning January 6. Walter White, national secretary of the NAACP, will speak on the work of the association during 1935 and project the program which will be followed in 1936. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m. in the Metropolitan Baptist Church, 123th Street and Seventh Avenue, of which the Rev. Abner Brown is pastor. WHITE MAN, CROWDED ON STREET CAP STARS NEGO BIRMINGHAM (ANP) — Because, as he told passengers a Negro, Smith Phillips "crowded" him as he attempted to board a street car, an unidentified white man whined out a knife and cut Phillips Monday. The white man boarded another car and got away. His victim was not seriously hurt. HUNDREDS ATTEND TRIBUNE THEATRE PARTY FOR NEEDY EDS AT rsary of the ban League ere Friday BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL HUNDRED 25th Anniversa National Urban Observed Here 25th Anniversary of the National Urban League Observed Here Friday NEW YORK—An inquiry to Secretary Cordell Hull of the Department of State as to whether or not the collection of funds in this country by Italian Americans is not a vocation of the spirit of American neutrality was made this week by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The funds being collected by Italian in America are advertised as going to the Italian Red Cross, but in the publicity for a huge mass meeting in New York City last week, where a total of one-half million dollars was announced, the statement was made that the funds were for the Italian Red Cross "and for other purposes." --- --- SECOND SECTION Local Citizens Join With Others in Celebrating Founding of th League LESTER GRANGER MAIN SPEAKER Growth of League Traced At Anniversary Meet At Lincoln Temple The appreciation of the services rendered by the National Uroan League was expressed by Washingtonians here last Friday night when services were held at the Lincoln Congregational Temple, commemorating the twenty-fifth Anniversary of the founding of the league in New York City. Delivering the main address of the evening Lester B. Granger, director of the Workers' Bureau of the National Urban League, traced the growth of the League from its beginning twenty-five years ago to the present. Ten-minute appreciation remarks were made by Dean Lucy D. Slowe, of Howard University; Colonel West A. Hamilton, and Major Campbell C. Johnson, executive secretary. Y. M. C. A. Boasley Presides George W. Bessley, president of the federation of Civic Associations, presided over the meeting and was introduced by Dr. Garnet C. Wilkinson, first assistant superintendent of schools, who served as general chairman of the anniversary exercises. The invocation was given by the Rev. R. W. Brooks, pastor of the Lincoln Congregational Temple. The Rev. H. T. Caskins, pastor of the Liberty Baptist Church, delivered the benediction. Organ preclude and postlude was played by Julius Carroll, of the Howard University Conservatory of Music. Committee Officers of the anniversary program were as follows: Dr. Wilkinson, chairman; Dr. Howard H. Long, assistant, superintendent of schools, assistant chairman; Major Johnson, secretary; and Dean William E. Taylor, of the Howard Law School, treasurer. The program committee included, George W. Beasley, chairman; Louis H. Russell, West A. Hamilton, Mrs. Effie F. Stewart, Rev H. T. Gaskins, Dr. Willard M. Lane, William G. Opey, and Captain Sylvester H. Epps. Members of the Finance Committee were Dr. William O. Claytor, chairman; Mrs. Jacqueline A. Cuney; Belford V. Lawson, Jr.; Rev J. D. Pair; Dean William E. Taylor; David E. Wells; Dr. W. T. Grady, and V. D. Johnston. The publicity committee consisted of Mrs. Florence M. Collins, Edward H. Lawson and Fredrick S. Weaver. White Staff on WPA Negro Theatre Project Protested NEW YORK — Bringing into the open an undercurrent of resentment and protest that has been prevalent for weeks, the NAACP this week protested against the practically all-white executive and technical staff of the WPA Negro theatre project in New York City. A few hours before the association's protest was made public, it was learned that the project directors had made certain last-minute shifts in personnel, so as to include some Negroes. The changes were brought about by the clamor which arose in all sections of Harlem when the personnel of the new project was first announced. At that time the supervisor, personnel officer, publicity man, musical director, senior accountant, stage director, scenic designer and electrician were all white. None of the higher paying jobs were at first assigned to Negroes. Sunrise Service to Be Held at Nash Memorial A sunrise service will be held at the Nash Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Sixteenth and Levis Street, Northeast, on Christmas morning. The Rev. William J. Tyler is pastor. Watch-meeting services will be held on the night of December 31. A| RIGHT TO LIVE AS MEN, NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS. FOR THIS WE DEDICATE OUR LIVES. Heads Zeta Sorority MRS. VIOLET N. ANDERSON Grand Basileus of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, who will open the sixteenth annual boule of her sorority here December 27. Mrs. Anderson is an outstanding attorney, and was the first woman in the State of Illinois to be admitted to the Illinois bar upon examination, in 1920. She was likewise the first Negro woman to be admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. At present she is also chairman of the legal status committee in the Doulxress League of Women Voters. State Department Asked About Italian War Fund NEW ORLEANS ASK FOR OLD JAIL STATE AS PLAYGROUND NEW ORLEANS, (ANP) — A request that the site made vacant by removal of the old city jail or the vacant lot at Graver and Saratoga Streets be grazed by the city council for use as a playground for Negro children was made last week by a committee of prominent colored citizens headed by James E. Gayle, manager of Pythian Temple and local N. A. A. C. P. president. The committee pointed out there are but two children's playgrounds and no parks at all for the city's Negro population. Such a request as that asked would aid in developing better citizenship, it is asserted. The site sought is in the heart of the colored section with three churches and several schools in the immediate vicinity BALTIMORE SELF$ OVER $100 IN CHRISTMAS SEALS NEW YORK-Leading the parade of N.A.A.C.P. branches selling the Association's Christmas seals is the Baltimore, Maryland branch with $102. Mrs. Josiah Diggs is heading the Baltimore drive. It is expected that the sale of seals this year will be the biggest in the history of the N.A.A.C.P. Dukes to Present Holiday Dance The Dukes Club will present a complimentary formal dance on Thursday. Bill Baldwin's Ambassadors will furnish music. Officers of the club are: David Hales, president; Howard Johnson, vice-president; John Miller, secretary; Thomas Matthews, financial secretary; Jack Craven, treasurer; Thomas View, business manager; Roland Veney, social editor; Emmuel Logan, sergeant-at-arms; Milton Baddy, James McCaul and Elmer Berry. TEND TRI Whatta Party W And a good time was had by all at the Trib party Saturday at the Lincoln Theatre. Tikas, radios and wrist watches are given winners in the contest as they received the front row are shown Grover Henry, Leroy Carter Woodson Discus Abyssinian, Relative to History Week Celebration MOM REPUBLIC And a good time was had by all at the Tribute newsboys and newsgirls party Saturday at two Lincoln Theatre. Who wouldn't smile when bikas, radios and writ watches are given away. Here are fortunate winners in the contest as they received their awards. Left to right front row are shown Grover Henry, Leroy Simpson, second prize win- Carter Woodson Discusses the Abyssinian, Relative to Negro History Week Celebration In connection with Negro History Week, beginning the ninth of Feburay, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History receives daily requests as to the role to be played by Abyssinia in this celebration. These inquirers, of course, have in mind the present conflagration in Northeast Africa. On this point, however, those seriously occupied with historian have little to say. History is not primarily concerned with the present except so far as conditions of today may be shown as determined by well defined movements in the past. Often, too, the historian is misfound in the present an effect of taken when he believes that he has some cause long operating in the past. To promote the truth and nothing but the truth the historian must go slowly. Carter G. Woodson, founder of the Association for the study of Negro Life and History and editor of their official journal, has issued a statement relative to "Abyssinia in Negro History Week." Relative to the part that Abyssinia may play in the observation of the week he said: "In the present Italo-Ethiopian conflict we must be especially careful. We know less about one of the combatants than we have know_n of any factor. The books which are already available supply little of much desired information, and most of those now tumbling in large numbers from the presses are not intended to inform the people, but to exploit the gullible American public which feats upon falsehood and scandal. "With the exception of the treatises of a few writers, like F. E Work who approaches the question politically and Marcel Griaule who envisages the situation scientifically these productions are mischievous... These rumors easily find evidence, however, because of the difficulty of learning the facts. The sources through which information from Africa must come are controlled by Europeans, many of whom are sympathetically arrayed on the side of the Italians. The Abyssinians are not generally acquainted with modern languages and the efficient methods of publicity. The outer world, then, is full in ignorance as to who these Africans are and what they aspire --- Washington Tribune WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1935 Girls Succeed as R. R. Waitresses THE DINING ROOM Colored dining car waitresses "man" the crack, "Banker's Express of the N. Y. N. H. and H. R. R. operating between Springfield, Mass., and New York City. These efficient young women operate one of the latest type care lounge cars and do it so expertly that they have attracted the attention of the railroad world. — (A.N.P. Photo.) to be. Abyssirians Are Nogroes Abyssirians Are Negroes In the first place, those who would placate the Negroes who are very much upset because of this attack on the last ancient African empire are saying that the Ethiopians are not Negroes. They boast of being descendants of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The Negroes are denying this emphatically, while proclaiming from the housetops the program for aiding their brethren in a trying hour. ubipsonem -oWllongoee (ODD This tattle-trap effervescence in these 'frotting-at-the-mouth' appeals, however, should not be taken seriously. The Negroes of the outer world are morally obligated to give the Ethiopian all assistance possible, for in spite of an infusion of Semitic blood, they are Negroes. Unfortunately, however, the Negroes of the United States, now in the bread line, have nothing to give. To raise a few hundred dollars to buy bandages and cases of medicine would be downright mockery. The Abyssinians need millions to buy airplane and artil- ner of the Children's Page contest; Rowlinson Striblin, Timothy Matthews, Wesley Craig and Dutton Ferguson, circulation manager. Second row: Lillian Gardner, Marguerite Carpenter, Logan Brent, Carl Sinnallwood, first prize. Children's page: Virgil Carter, James Washington and Beatrice Murphy, editor of the Avenue of Youth, Children's Page. lery; and there is not a Negro in the United States in a position for what it is worth to John Bull If these nations can secure their to buy one piece of the kind to buy one piece of the kind. The Abyssinians are under the impression that since the black element in this country constitutes one-tenth of its population, this group naturally controls one-tenth of the wealth of this rich nation. These Negroes, however, while religiously assisting others in building industries and financial institutions, have not shown sufficient cohesion to build them for themselves. I feel ashamed for my people when I realize what contempt the Ethiopians must nava for us on learning these facts. Another false impression is that France and England are struggling hard to line up the nations against Italy. The Abyssinians, however, have not been thus deceived. These Africans know that they will be fortunate if the large European powers do not join Italy in its destruction of Ethiopia. This has always been their African policy. France has already advanced Italy heavy loans, and hitherto both France and England have done little more than to fight the battles of Italy before the League of Nations. The French people as a majority, support Italy; And although some of the English balk at this stroke of economic imperialism, the English Government is playing the game A HOMETOWN PAPER, OF, BY AND FOR WASHINGTONIANS. GOES INTO THE HOMES OF THE BUYING NEGRO PUBLIC Boys and Girls Rowlinson Striblin, Timothy Mat- guson, circulation manager. Second carpenter, Logan Brent, Carl Sinaall- gil Carter, James Washington and venue of Youth, Children's Page. for what it is worth to John Bull. If these nations can secure their share by giving Mussolini a free hand in certain parts they will do so. If a war becomes necessary to satisfy their greed they may plunge into the conflict to snatch the bone rom the other dog. They have no love for the Ethiopians. No man can resist detesting the methods of highhanded Hitler and murderous Mussolini, but they are merely trying to do openly what the other large European powers have been doing otherwise from time immemorial Like Alligators Not long ago, I was all but run out of a white church in Chicago, by the assistant pastor for saying that the League of Nations is a "League of Thieves." I had recently come from Geneva where I had seen these watchdogs in action. It reminded me very much of a scene I witnessed among ravenous reptiles on the Alligator Farm near St. Augustine, Florida. Each one was determined to navy his share of the food within reach or die trying to take it, and finally the entire group seized upon one alligator of a different color and killed him. The world needs a League of Nations. Certainly we need to rise above this cat-and-dog stage of one fellow seizing the other by the throat. The smaller nations are sincere in trying to work out such an association of powers; but the large powers now dominating this combine are trying to use it as a means to hold what they have robbed others of and to prevent others from dispossessing them. The causes of the trouble in Africa are not restricted to Berlin and Rome. We must do much to regulate matters in Paris, London and Washington before we can boast that "they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift an sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." INMATE OF MICIGAN PRISON STAR MEMBER OF NAACP NEW YORK—V E. Miller, No. 26591 in the Michigan State Prison at Jackson, Mich.. is one of the star members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and has just renewed his $5.00 annual membership for the next year. He is also a subscriber for The Crisis Mr. Miller has written Walter White praising the N.A.A.C.P. and urging colored people who are "on the outside" to rally in support of its work. TY FOR 2 Bikes, W Other Prize Tribune Bo Newspaper Man Honored 2 Bikes, Watches and Other Prizes Awarded Tribune Boys and Girls A. B. DENVER. Colo.-Although he has been in Texas since last spring, Alpha Iota Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity of this city signally honored U. J. Andrews, journalist, recently, when the organization elected him delegate of the chapter to the Alpha General bicennial convention to be held the latter part of the month in Nashville, Tenn. Andrews, one orado's most notable athletes of a decade ago, and 'long active and widely known in Mountain States' circles, departed from Denver in April to accept the managing editorship of the San Antonio, Texas Register. PRESIDENT States, chairman. Bishop Reverdy C. Ransome, Bishop of the Third Episcopal District of the A.M.E. Church. Dr. William H. Jernagin, Washington, D.C., of the National Baptist Convention of the U.S.; Chairman of the Committee of Race Relations, of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ of America; and President of the National Baptist Young People's Congress. The Rev. H. T. Medford, Missionary Secretary of the A.M.E. Church and editor of the Missionary Seer, representing Bishop I. W. Kyles, Bishop of the A.M.E. Zion Church. Bishop P. A. Boulden, Bishop of the Union American Methodist Episcopal Church. Episcopal Church. Flays CCC Organization Flaying the lack of Negro representation among chaplains and the CCC camps, the committee stated: "Because of the fact that in the administration of four plans there is but scant representation of the Negro group in the supervision of the same, the twelve million Negroes have been forgotten to a large extent than we believe you are aware. For example, take the Civilian Conservation Camps. We congratulate you upon this most brilliant conceived plan, and call your attention to the fact that there are according to latest published statements about 450,000 enrollees of whom approximately 44,000 are Negroes; about the same proportion as Negroes bear to the population as a whole. But of the 9,000 officers, there are only 17 Negroes. There is not an average of one Negro to a camp. While we do not urge that all officers be Negroes, we do urge you to give us at least two officers for each of the 226 colored camps. That would be only 452. We urge that there be one colored chaplain in each camp; there are now only 6 colored chaplains. Of all the phases of American life, the Negro is most used to his own religious leadership, and one chaplain to each camp would improve the young men. The committee was received cordially by President Roosvelt. The Fraternal Council of Negre churches is an organization of Christian denominations controlled by Norroes. It represents over 5,000,000 persons over thirteen years of age. Telling of the smothering of the blue cage, the London Times headlined it, "America Rocks from End to End." Must have got first head mixed with one about a Jap earthquake. THEATRES SPORTS AND SCHOOLS NINE R NEEDY Watches and prizes Awarded Boys and Girls NINE Grover Henry Is Winner of First Prize in Annual Contest by Wash. Paper ROLLISON STRIBLIN ALSO GETS BICYCLE Lillian Gardener One of Two Girls to Win A Major Prize Grover Henry, 1843 C Street, Southeast, Armstrong High School student, won first prize in the annual newsboys' contest of the Washington Tribune. Henry received a brand new bicycle as an award for maintaining the highest average during the month's contest sponsored by the circulation department. His average was 2,750. Last year, Henry was awarded a bicycle for winning the highest average during the Tribune contest, so he is the proud owner of two streamline bikes which were secured from the Hub Furniture Company. The prizes were awarded Saturday at the annual Christmas party to newsboys and girls who are members of the Avenue of Youth, the Tribune children's page. GIRL is Winner Rollison Striblin, 61, Harvard Street, Northwest, was also awarded a brand-new bicycle for the second highest average. For the contest period was 2,000. Striblin is a newcomer in the tribune sales force, and set a many pace from the very beginning. This bike was also purchased from the Hub Furniture Company. Lillian Gardener, 723 Thirteenth Street, Northeast, was one of two girls to win major prizes. Lillian is also new, but she set a tremendous pace from the very beginning, and for two weeks held the lead. The boys, thinking that it would be just too bad for a girl to beat them at what is considered strictly a field for boys, put on renewed effort. Lillian, however, fought a brilliant battle, and as a result of her efforts she was given third prize, a gold bracelet wrist watch, purchased from the Marx Jewelry Company. Gets New Overcoat Everette Hughes, 913 E Street, Southwest, won fourth prize, a swell, new overcoat from the Bell Clothes Shop. Marguerite Carpenter, the second girl in the contest, was fifth place winner and was awarded a Majestic radio, purchased from the Manhattan Auto and Radio Company. Wesley Craig, 2574 Sherman Avenue, Northwest, won sixth prize, a gold wrist watch, purchased from the Marx Jewelry Company. Other winners and their prizes were as follow: Herbert, Smart, 324 M Street, Southwest, basketball; James Washington. 2234 Twelfth Street, Northwest, indoor tennis set; Edward Mitchell, 4810 Eades Street, Northeast, combination game; G. Trivers, 2817 Elvans Road, Southeast, indoor game; Virgil Carter, 19 M Street, Southwest, book; and Leon Henderson, Falis Church, Va. a camping set. Henderson had the highest average of the salesboys outside of the District. In addition to the prizes, all of the boys and girls were treated to a special Mickey Mouse movie at the Lincoln Theatre. Over 1,000 boys and girls readers of the children's par were present. Prizes were awarded by Dutton Ferguson, circulation manager. Boston Students Picket Italian Consulate BOSTON, (ANP) — A demonstration against Italian invasion of Ethiopia, participated in by 30 girls, and young male college students, held before the Italian consulate was broken up only when officials called police who drove away the demonstrators. The protest started when a mackinaw-clad youth hurled hundreds of circulars from the roof of the building housing the consulate. As they fell to the street, the 30 students who were standing here whisked out placards from beneath their coats and began parading up and down the sidewalks. The circulars were signed by the Intercollege committee against Fascist war. ---