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BOY SCOUTS’ ANNUAL FINANCE
DRIVE SURE TO BE A SUCCESS
District Chairman Charles Murray Is
Pleased with Response
“The enthusiasm with whiciV
telephone reports, signed pledge
cards, and personal replies have
been received from the Douglas
district at Campaign Headquar
ters, indicates success of the
Chicago Council of Boy Scouts’
$100,000 finance drive,” announc
ed District Campaign Chairman
Charles Murray, at a meeting
with the Douglas campaign wor
kers.
“Realizing that the work and
program of scouting promotes
American citizenship and pre
vents delinquency, the residents
in the Douglas district are co
operating wholeheartedly. How
ever, the drive is not ended. We
have not yet reached our goal.
We hope to show Chicago boys
that we, the only Scouting dis
trict in the city for the race, will
do our utmost to maintain the
high standards of Chicago Scout
ing.” i <
Speaking further, the Douglas
District chairman pointed out
that the personnel of the Chicago
Council have simplified the me
chanics of the campaign. Cam
paign headquarters is keeping a
daily record of reports from all
team workers and reports back
to District and Zone Chairmen
the record of all subscriptions
credited to the Zone each day.
Pledge-cards make provision
for payment in any manner con
venient to the contributor. Sign
ed subscriptions for payment at a
latter date are acceptable, for
payments may be made monthly
or quarterly.
“If the campaign to raise and
provide the necessary major
funds towards operating and
maintaining nine summer camps,
including one for the race, and
three nearby year-round camps
is to be successful, we of the
Douglas district must do our part,
towards raising substantially
more than the total that was
raised last year! This means more
givers and larger gifts.
“Every new contributor to
scouting means that at least one
more boy can be provided for,”
Chairman Murray contended.
Team captains in the Douglas
district, to whom five or ten
workers are responsible, include:
Mrs. Ethel Miller, 6040 Calumet
ave.; Dr. Luther Peck,- 3650 So.
Parkway; F. Young, 446 East
47th st.; Mrs. Samuel Askins, 6439
St. Lawrence ave.; Mrs. Mary
Boykin, 5634 So. Perry st.; Mrs.
Vivian Brown, 4634 Michigan
ave.; Dr. R. C. Chatman, 4521
Vincennes ave.; Mrs. Clara
Green, 5432 Prairie ave.; Mrs.
Edna Latting, 5003 Vincennes
ave.; and Mrs. Susie Long, 6223
Prairie ave.
Governor O. K.’s
Expansion Plan
of Va. Union U.
RICHMOND, Va., April 28.—
Governor James H. Price this
week endorsed a $200,000 build
ing and expansion program for
the Virginia Union university and
pledged his whole-hearted sup
port in making Richmond’s col
ored college one of the outstand
ing institutions of its kind in the
South.
Speaking in the interest of ed
ucation within the state, the
Governor said:
“Virginia has always been and
we hope it will always be a tem
ple of learning and an altar of
tolerance for all peoples who
seek knowledge.
“Who knows but that some day
Virginia Union university will
graduate a future Paul Robeson,
Marian Anderson or Countee
Cullin.
“In the fields of music, art, lit
erature and science, the Negroes
have contributed generously to
our present civilization. Virginia
recognizes and encourages these
fine qualities.”
A drive for $100,000 will be
inaugurated here early next
month, Dr. William John Clark,
president of the university, has
announced.
If this amount is raised by De
cember 31 of this year, the Gen
eral Education Board of the
Rockefeller Foundation, New
York, has promised an equal do
nation. The $200,000 fund will be
used to erect a library on the
university campus, Dr. Clark
said.
Virginia Union university is a
eo-educational college with an
enrollment of nearly 600. Found
ed in 1865 it has always endea
vored to maintain the highest
possible academic standards. In
1935 it was given a full rating
as a Class ‘A’ college by the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools.. .
Virginia Union’s campus covers
fifty-five acres within the city
of Richmond. Its buildings— con
structed of old Virginia granite
are valued at an estimated $1,~
000,000.
Dr. Clark who has been asso
ciated with the university for the
past twenty-five years has kept
tp© school free from debt
Research Workers
Uncover Some
Interesting Facts
Chicago, Wisconsin!
Elgin, Waukegan, Rockford,
Galena, Wisconsin!
These addresses are wrong, of
course. However, they would
probably be right today unless
Nathaniel Pope of Kaskaskia, ter
ritorial delegate to Congress, had
not succeeded in his arguments
to amend the Enabling Act where
by Illinois could become a state,
say research workers of the Fed
eral Writers’ Project, W. P. A.
The time was 120 years ago—
April 13, 1818.
Through his vision and efforts,
the northern boundary line of
Illinois was placed, not at 41° 30’,
as the bill originally provided,
but, by amendment, at 42° 30’, or
about 61 miles north of the sou
thern shore line of Lake Michi
gan.
As a result of the change, Illi
nois gained approximately 8,500
square miles of land, or about
one-seventh of its present area,
which includes the nation’s sec
ond largest city, a population of
more than 4,600,000, hundreds of
millions in wealth, and important
commercial ports.
Pope, a Kentuckian by birth,
died in 1850 after achieving a
distinguished reputation as a
judge of the United States Dis
trict Court, and Pope county was
named in his honor. His nephew,
Daniel Pope Cook of Kaskaskia,
also a Kentuckian, lived only to
the age of 32, but so crowded his
brief career with significant work
that Cook county perpetuates his
name.
Free Course in
Economics Held
at Maxwell ‘Y’
The Henry George School of
Social Science offers free a ten
weeks’ course in Fundamental
Economics and Social Science to
be held at the Maxwell Street Y.
M. C. A., 1012 Maxwell street,
Tuesday evening, 8 p. m., April
26.
In this study you will learn
why millions are unemployed;
why nations go to war; why de
pressions recur; why poverty per
sists with plenty; and the remedy
for this social unrest. Henry
George in his book “Progress and
Poverty” points the way to the
solution of the problem.
Every lover of freedom and so
cial justice ought to familiarize
himself with the book “Progress
and Poverty.” The Henry George
School is chartered by the Uni- j
versity of the state of New York!
to the teaching of economics as i
a science. For other class loca
tions call Dearborn 8749 or write
180 West Washington street.
Woman Editor
Starts Bloomer
Fad of the 50’s
In the early 1850’s a move
ment for dress reform swept over
the United States, putting a new
word into the language and
shocking or amusing the conser
vative. This movement was orig
inated by Mrs. Amelia Bloomer,
editor of a magazine called “The
Lily,” published at Seneca Falls,
N. Y. The new costume resem
bled that of Turkish women and
consisted of baggy trousers of
ankle length with a tunic or coat
reaching to the knees.
Research workers of the Fed
eral Writers’ project, WPA, Illi
nois, have found that the
“bloomer” fad soon reached this
state, and that it affected the
costume of men as well as wom
en. Evidence of this occurs in an
item appearing in a Boston news
magazine, Gleason’s Pictorial
Drawing Room Companion, July
26, 1851:
“A La Bloomer—At Mon
mouth, Illinois, a new style for
gentlemen’s dress has made its
appearance. It is a sack coat
reaching to the hips, with pants
closely fitting the body and
limbs, and fastened at the knee,
after the manner of the old-style,
\yith long stockings to match.
Tassels are attached to each
knee, and complete the suit. We
suppose this to be a set-off to
the change in the ladies’ cos
tume.”
maintaining a policy of operating
only within its income.
“Virginia Union must have a
library to serve as a workshop
for the entire student body. It
wall cost $200,000 to adequately
erect and equip this building,”
he stated.
Vvny Fay TEN CENTS for a
caper when yon can get a better
: Oat for FIVE CENTS. A$k your
ut>v'’Sd*aler for the BEE. __
City-Wide Kahn
Tests Available
Bundesen States
Mohammed went to the moun
tain, when he couldn’t make the
mountain come to him.
In its relentless fight against
syphilis Chicago is emulating the
prophet’s grim determination but
reversing his strategy, according
to Dr. Herman N. Bundesen,
president of the Board of Health.
Realizing that financial difficul
ties, bashful diffidence and plain
apathy are holding back thou
sands of people from consulting
their family physic'ans regard
ing possible infection, the Board
of Health has brought the oppor
tunity for free and confidential
examinations for syphilis into this
and thirty-five other Chicago
metropolitan communities. These
thirty-six free neighborhood ex
amination stations, Dr. Bundesen
points out, constitute a city-wide
Kahn-test filter to ferret out the
plague as the first and most im
portant s ep towards its conquest.
Free examination stations are
now operating in this neighbor
hood, one day a week.
The Board of Health’s present
extensive drive through its thir
ty-six community examination
stations, follows an exploratory
five weeks’ schedule of free tests
in twenty-one scattered stations,
which ended March 15. Tabula
tion of records shows that 20,000
Chicagoans have responded to the
board's offer for free blood ex
amination; eight per cent of those
who have volunteered for the
test are infected, and most of
them had been previously una
ware of their affliction.
Speaking of Chicago’s “New
Crusadq”--*the most formidable
offensive in America against the
frightful, age-old human destroy
er, Dr. Budesen said:
“The encouraging public re-'
sponse to our campaign for vol
untary blood tests for syphilis
brought decision to increase the
number of examination stations
and to extend the free offer in
definitely.
“These free and confidential
tests are being given in every
neighborhood community, so that
no person in Chicago can have
any reason, or excuse, for failure
know definitely whether he or
she is infected. We trust this
drive will arouse all people of
Chicago to their duty to them
selves, their families, their fu
ture offspr ng, and society, gen
erally, to obtain syphilis blood
tests and examinations from their
own family physicians, or, if the
fee cannot be afforded, from the
Board of Health’s free neighbor
hood community stations.’’
The person examined is noti
fied of the result of the first test.
If this proves positive, pointing
to the suspicion that the individ
ual has syphilis, a second Kahn
test is given, along with a com
plete physical examination, in or
der to obtain certain diagnosis.
Upon final determination that the
patient is suffering from sypilis,
High School Grads
to be Guests
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, JEF
FERSON CITY, Mo., April 28.—
On Saturday, May 7, Linoln
university will celebrate its sixth
annual high school day. On that
date, the university will again
I be host to graduating high school
seniors of the state.
Acting President Jason has ex
tended an. invitation, through the
principals of the high schools,
asking seniors of all the four
year high schools in the state to
be guests of the university on
this occasion.
The purpose of this annual
celebration of high school day
is to call the attention of h i g h
school students, especially sen
iors throughout the state to the |
educational opportunities which j
Lincoln university has to offer
them in their future training.
An interesting program of ac
tivities, including a track meat
in the afternoon, has been plan
ned. The events of the day in
clude both educational and rec
reational activities.
High school principals, alumni
and friends have been requested
to arrange for the transportation
of students to and from the uni
versity.
Additional features of the pro
gram this year will include con
tests in connection with a Music
Speech Festival which is being
sponsored by the university un
der the direction of Mr. Roland
L. Wiggins, State Supervisor ci:
Negro Schools.
Following is a tentative pro
gram of the day’s activities:
1. Registration.
2. Inter-scholastic track meet.
3. Assembly.
4. Tour of buildings and points
of interest.
5. Music-Speech Festival.
Seniors from the four-year
high schools, as special guests of
the university, will be furnished
dinner and supper in the univer
sity's cafeteria without charge.
A large representation is ex
pected.
Ask your newsdealer for The
CHICAGO BEE.
to know clelinitely whether* he or
she is referred to the family phy
sician for treatment. In the event
that fianancial circumstances pre
vent following that course, the
Board of Health arranges for free
treatment.
FUTURE OF RACE !N FILMS TOLD;
‘NEGRO’ TYPES PREFERRED
HOLLYWOOD, April 28—(AN
P)—Hollywood’s Negro colony
stretches from the Los Angeles
east side to the sea, a distance
of nearly 25 miles.
In that respect it resembles no
other racial group that furnishes
character actors to films, for the
French, the Russians, the Chinese
and most other nationalities have
their own particular locale and
remain fairly close together in
their own district. But the Ne
gro may live on Central avenue
or in Santa Monica.
All told, there are probably two
dozen Negro players who can be
certain of fairly steady work in
pictures. At the moment, the ma
jority of them are at work in
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s ‘The Toy
Wife,’ story of New Orleans and
Louisiana plantation life of the
1850’s, starring Louise Rainer.
“The Green Pastures” was their
heyday and any Southern story
has at least three or four roles
for them. But radio and cabaret
work has to be depended upon
to keep them in bread and but
ter between picture engagements.
Not counting either the Paul
Robesons and Bill Robinsons on
one hand or the colored extras on
the other, the list of Negro char
ac‘er players is made up largely
of the following: the McDaniels,
Sam, Hattie and Etta; Clarence
Muse, Lew Payton, Clinton Rosa
mond, Eddie Anderson, Billy Mc
Clain, Eddie Thomposn, Eddie
Greene, Ernest Whitman, Ralph
Cooper; also Cleo Desmond, Lou
ise Beavers, Libby Taylor, Lil
lian Yarbo, Theresa Harris and
Myrtle Anderson.
Nina Mae McKinney, formerly
prominent in films, has been ap
pearing in pictures and vaude
ville in Australia. Many Negro
players, such as Rex Ingram, “de
Lawd” of “The Green Pastures,”
have turned to the Federal The
atre project for employment.
American vaudeville is “out”. The
Fats Waller, Noble Sissle, Duke
Ellington and Cab Calloway bands
and acts help to keep some others
busy who can’t depend on pic
tures for a steady livelihood.
Probably a typical example is
Clinton Rosamond, who plays the
butler, Pompey, in “The Toy
Wife.” Rosamond, who was the
prophet in “The Green Pastures”,
first attained film prominence in
that, production. He now aver
ages a picture about every four
months, at a total income of a
bout $1,700 a year. Radio and
concert work help the family
budget. He used to tour with a
Negro quartet and appeared in the
London production of ‘‘Show
boat.-’ When feature pictures
don't offer employment, he is
glad to work in shorts, such as
Pete Smith’s “The Story of Dr.
Carver,” in which he had the
lead.
“There is a fair amount of
work for l’eal Negro types,” he
says, “but very little for the mu
lattoes. Most of our character
players hailed originally from the
Sou’h, but qu'te a few were born
right here in Los Angeles. Mis
souri and Arkansas are the home
states of several. It isn't entire
ly true that we forget our South
ern accent after living and work
ing in California. We do try, to
talk, in every day conversation,
as educated people but the Sou
thern dialect has been immortal
ized in literature and in the work
of our own Negro poets such as
Paul Laurence Dunbar, and we
have actually learned it in school.
For pictures, of course, it's indis
pensable.”
There are two production com
panies in Hollywood making all
Negro films, principally for re
lease to Negro theatres of the
South. Million Dollar Produc
tions has produced three of these,
“Bargains with Bullets,” “Life
Goes On” and “The Duke Steps
Out”, and Jed Buell made the all
colored Western, “Harlem on the
Prairie.” Joe Louis starred in
“The Spirit of Youth,” in which
Clarence Muse also had a lead
ing role. Others are planned this
year.
When “Porgy and Bess" played
at the Shrine auditorium in Los
Angeles, several members of its
cast were tested for parts in “The
Toy Wife.” But the majority of
Negro roles were filled from the
more experienced local colony.
What the Hollywood Negro play
ers hope for is the enlistment for
films of such actors as Todd Dun
can, the Porgy of “Porgy and
Bess”; Ihe return to this country
of Paul Robeson and signing of
such outstanding Negro singers
as Marian Anderson. Roland
Hayes and George Garner. That,
they believe, would lend immense
prestige to their group and gru
them a better chance to inake
themselves knoYm.
Discover First
Cooperative Town
Was Highland, 111.
Descendants or pioneers now
living in Highland, Illinois, tel
with interest of a co-operative
plan adopted by several Swiss
families for settlement in tha
part of the state. The accounts
have been recorded by workers
on the Federal Writers’ Project
WPA, as a part of their research
for a guide book to Illinois.
Shortly after the immigrants
arrived at St. Louis, by way ol
the Mississippi, on Oct. 1, 1831
they agreed to pool their pos
sessions so that they might have
the advantage of combined re
sources in the purchase of land,
materials, and home supplies
An inventory showed cash ol
$6,195.23 and a number of per
sonal belongings, each of which
was given a definite value.
Before continuing their jour
ney to Illinois, they made sever
al purchases: “Fritz,” a horse
$60.00; two cows and calves
$20.00; three bee-hives, $6.00
twenty-six chickens, $2.25
twenty-one hogs and a cow
$48.00. The breaking of a jug of
whiskey, costing $2.25, was con
sidered to be a bad omen. How
ever, another was purchased for
$3.37.
After crossing the Mississippi,
they traveled thirty-five miles to
the vicinity of the present loca
tion of Highland. There, they
purchased at first 700 acres for a
sum not mentioned in the narra
tives. Later, 350 additional acres
were bought for $2,727. For a
brief period, the new settlers
carried on their common tasks
of breaking, ground and building
cabins, but before a year had
passed differences developed,
property was redistributed, and
the plan abandoned.
$. CAMPBELL
DRAWS COVER
FOR BROCHURE
Depicts Y.M.C.A.’s
50th Anniversary
NEW YORK, N. Y„ April 28.
—(C)—A beautifully printed
twenty-page brochure, 9V2 x 12 V2
inches, with front cover by the
celebrated artist, E. Simms
Campbell, entitled “Into the
Light—With the Youth of a
Race,” was issued Monday by
Dr. Channing H. Tobias, senior
secretary for colored work, Na
tional Council of the YMCA, 347
Madison avenue, giving the com
j plete plans for the fiftieth anni
' veisary celebration of the ‘Y’
• this year. The celebration has a
national committee of 500 spon
I sors, and several sub-commit
i tees, through which an effort is
being made to raise $125,000
this year, for expansion of the
work by naming an additional
secretary for student associations,
a secretary for Boys.’ Group
work in the unorganized south
ern field, and a secretary for ser
vices to community organiza
tions and men in industry, and
an endowment fund to carry for
ward the program.
Dr. W. R. Valentine is chair
man of the executive committee,
Dr. Leslie Pinckney Hill, chair
man of the special gifts com
mittee; William H. Wortham,
chairman of publicity; Dr. B. E.
Mays, chairman of the church
committee; and Mrs. Lillian A. |
Mansion of Noted
Inventor Becomes
Public Property
Medlevi’ 'jalt'ements, automat
ic doors, and air conditioned hall
ways and rooms make the castle
like mansion of the late Fred
Francis a point of unusual inter
est at Kewanee. According to the
bequest whereby this extraordi
nary structure and its 40-acre
park became public property, vis
itors may enter this building
“only when it is safe to do so
without admitting flies and mice",
research workers of the Federal
Writers’ Project, WPA, have
learned.
Symbols for the solving of an
Intricate mathematical problem
originated by the donor, who was
a distinguished inventor, form
a part of the decoralive detail on
one wall of the din ng room.
Treasures of art include a note
worthy collection of sculpture.
Within the park a well equip
ped children's playground with
a merry-go-round designed by
Francis delights many youthful
sightseers, and the leg cabin in
which he was born affords a
s'riking contrast to the great
house and its luxurious appoint
ments.
Alexander, head of the women's
committee.
The story of the ‘Y’ is told in
the booklet, from its beginning
in 1888 when W. A. Hunton was
named the first secretary in
charge' of the Norfolk branch.
The ‘Y’ is now established in 62
cities with full-time secretaries,
and has property valued at $5,
000,000, with less than $50,000
debt.
Chief unoccupied centers which
need a ‘Y’ are Lexington, Kv.,
Shreveport, La., and Memphis,
Tenn.
275 YOUTH
ATTEND 4-H
RALLY IN OKLA.
16 Receive Awards
at Annual Meet
GUTHRIE, Ok la., April 28—(A
NP)—The first annual 4-H Club
Rally and Achievement Day
which was held here this week
brought together 275 boys and
girls, representing 19 4-H clubs
in Logan county.
Sixteen 4-H Club pins were a
warded for health, team demon
strations, timely topics and ap
propriate dress, and the much
coveted Trophy Cup was awarded
to the Merid’an Club for con
ducting a model 4-H Club meet
i ing.
The prizes were donated by
| Farm Women’s Clubs of Logan
County, local Civic Federated
Clubs, and several city and coun
I ty teachers. Miss Rosa J. Parker,
I Home agent, and Paul O. Brooks,
county agent, were in charge of
the meeting.
SPECTATORS LINE
RIVER BANK AT
BAPTISMAL SERVICE
ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 28.—
(ANP)—A crowd of 1,000 church
members and curiosity seekers
lined the bank of the Mississippi
river at the foot of Chestnut st.
last Sunday morning as 21 mem
bers of Pleasant Green Baptist
church, four of them young girls
—were baptized oy immersion.
The converts were led waist
deep into the water, then push
ed backward for a quick immer
sion.
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