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MIAMI TIMES, MIAMI, FLORIDA PAGE FOUR FLORIDA’S FAVORITE COLORED WEEKLY Published Every Saturday by The Magic Printery Office at 1112 N.W. Third Avenue, Miami, Florida^-Telephone 3*2236 Entered as Second Glass Matter, August 9, 1927, at the Post Office at Miami, Florida, under the act of March 3, 1876 H. E. SIGISMUND REEVES, Editor GARTH C. REEVES, Business Manager Member of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE: Interstate United Newspapers, Incorporated. 545 Fifth Ave., New York SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ONE YEAR $4.00 SIX MONTHS 32.50 THREE MONTHS $1.50 “FAITH IN THINGS SPIRITUAL” Millions of Americans will be urged to read and re read the Bible in the near future. The occasion is National Bible Week, October 16-22, which is sponsored by the Laymen’s National Committee. The Week will have, as participants, persons of all faiths and creeds. It is designed to appeal to people of every age and in all walks of life the housewife,' the factory worker, the farmer, the businessman, the profes sional worker. Governors and mayors and others will issue proclamations asking that all turn again to the Holy Scrip tures. We live in a world which seems to have become al most utterly materialistic —a world in which the black shadow of war is seen once more. Yet in such a world mat ters of the spirit remain all-important. General Bradley, the chief military officer of the nation, has written, “Our enemy has faith in things material. Ido not hestitate to say, as a soldier, that we must have faith in things spiri • tual. That faith diminishes physical hardships and en hances physical valor. It can and, lam sure, will— shorten our trial and speed our triumph.” The lessons of the Bible are eternal. They can serve us all in these difficult days. PUT YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER Between October 8 and 14, Fire Prevention Week will be observed. So it’s time to consider just what that week can mean to you. You can, of course, take a cursory glance at fire pre vention posters and news items and promptly forget them. You can doze when a brief fire prevention film is shown at the movies. You can turn the radio to another station when a fire prevention week speaker comes on. Do that, and you’ll run a good chance of having a destructive fire with the everpresent possibility of death and injury some time in the future. On the other hand, you can take the week seriously and give your full attention to the suggestions and ad vice offered you. Then you can apply the expert knowl edge thus gained to your home and other property. As a rule, fire prevention is both easy and inexpensive. It con sists largely of such common-sense practices as periodical ly inspecting heating and lighting equipment, ridding buildings of accumulations of junk, providing proper stor age for paint, cleaners and other flammables, and giving due care to matches and smoking materials. The basic purpose of the week is to refresh your mind on such mat ters, and to encourage you to get the job done as soon as possible. Do this, and the chance of your having a fire will di minish. Fire Prevention Week is designed to help you put your house in order. How about it? MEDICINE ON THE HOOF When a doctor looks at a meat animal, what does he think about? In company with the layman, he probably thinks that the animal will one day be converted into some * mighty fine steaks, chops, roasts and other cuts. On top of that, it is likely that the doctor looks on the animal as a highly important “assistant” in the practice of his profession. The reason for this is that meat animals, and meat animals alone, are the source of more than 50 vital drugs and medicines. These include insulin, thyroid, liver extract and hormones. Other drugs of meat animal origin which are now in th£ experimental stage promise medical miracles. So far they are scarce, and research has not de veloped to the point where they are ready for general use. But the indications are that they will either cure or alleviate a number of serious afflictions, such as arthritic which has long presented grave problems to the medical fraternity. To provide these medicines, millions of tiny glands from meat animals must be carefully saved and accumu • lated. The packing industry has taken that job upon itself and it's no small order. As an example, to make one single ounce of insulin, the pancreas glands of 1500 cattle or 7500 pigs are needed. But the job is always done. So the meat animal is more than a handsome collec tion of good things for the dinner table. He may be your all-important helper when you’re sick. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1950 THE SPECTATOR BY ELLIOTT J. PIEZE CRIME DOES NOT PAY Probably the oldest of the many advices that have been and are still being given to both children and grown up throughout the land, is the admonition that “crime does not pay.” It is the most wide ly known of all of the advices, and it is heard more often and more regularly than all of the others put together. Despite all of this and many other admonitions to the contrary, there still remains that element of human being who as cribe to the theory that they will be the among the few exceptions to the rule that “crime does not pay.” This condition is being witnessed everyday, throughout the land, but the old sound advice still holds true, and there are no exceptions to that ever lasting rule. Miami, being no exception to the rule of the, nation, certainly comes in for its share of crimes and crim inal activities, and the conditions, I regret to say, are not getting any better. The moguls of Miami’s crime world were dealt a severe blow this week, when former Deputy Sheriff George Patton, a man who has long been in the “know” in the local set up, voluntarily appeared before the current Grand Jruy and accord ing to reports told what he knew of the local crime situation. Many of the eurrent and former powers-that-be were startled whefn they learned that Patton would tes tify before the Grand Jury. Patton, himself admitted that he realized that he was endangering his life and probably the lives of his family, but despite all of this, he was de termined to “tl>ll it all,” and from all indications, that is exactly what he did. Just what he told will, of course, have to remain a secret. But suffice it is that he testified, at that time, and under those conditions. Many veterans observers predict that Patton’s testimony will have far reaching effects upon the local crime situation. Others offer the opinion that it should do a lot of good, in the long road toward rid ding this community of most if not all of its open and deliberate viola tions of the laws of the land. Patton's appearance and testimony before the Grand Jury at this stra tegic time, will undoubtedly serve as a further and more lasting re minder to all of the oft repeated admonition that “crime does not pay.” In the meantime, Miami and vicinity will patiently wait, keenly observe and eagerly listen for re sults. VARIETY PROGRAM TO KICK OFF BTVV HOME-COMING A spicey variety program to be presented in the school's auditori um on the day prior to the actual Hoinie-coming Dlay or Wednes day, November 1, will kickoff the many- special activities that have been planned for what Is predicted to be the greatest series of Home coming ever presented in the his tory of Booker T. Washington High School. The program is being plann ed to be presented during the early afternoon on Wednesday, November 1. It is at this program where the purpose and objectives of Home coming will be fully explained to the student body by a member of the Alumni Association. A well bal anced program will be presented. On that night, there will be a ftont pep rally in which all of the students and many of the Alumni will participate. There will be yells, cheers, and what-have-you for about one hour, In which everybody is ex pected to join. On Home-coming Day, Thursday, November 2, the giant parade will' begin promptly at 6 p.m. and will pass through the principal streets of the city. The giant spectacle will be featured with bands, marching; units, high stepping majorettes, Queens and more Queens, both of the Home-coming and of other oc casions, and many other beautiful attractions. The all important game will be sin at 8:15 that night at Dorsey Park. Douglas High School of Thomasville, Ga., will be the Home .coming opponents. And to climax It all. there will be the Annual Home-coming Reception which will begin immediately fol lowing the game, at the Rockland Palace, and which will be featured with a number of timely attractions in keeping the Home-coining celebra tion. It is going to be a great time, and we’ll be looking for you. BTW ALUMNI TO MEET The regular meeting of the BTW Alumni Association will be held on Tuesday. October 17, at 8 p.m. at the school. All members are asked to be present. Business of vital im portance. The Moving Finger By L. A. Thompson The National Conference of Christians And Jews has issued Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 160, entitled, “Prejudice In Textbooks.” The author, Maxwell 8. Stewart, knows these United States, and In this booklet, put his fingers right on the eyes of national racial, re ligious and sectional prejudice. He points out that If the text books of the nation dealt more with human personality and less with stereotypes the road to democracy would be shorter for all. * Turning to page 14, under the caption, “How Racial Groups are Treated” read what is said of “Treatment of Negroes.” “Since the Negroes make up the largest of the minority groups in which the textbooks treat this group is especially significant. Some of the recently prepared texts devote considerable attention to them as an important American people. The average text and teaching guide, however, tend to Ignore them particularly their position in pres ent-day America. Little or nothing is to be found in most text books about the Ne gro's cultural background in Africa, in the world history and geography textbooks; Africa is usually dealt with as a continent of strange and backward people. The natives are assumed to possess only the sinrip -1 lest culture, vastly .Inferior to our own. Yet in recent year scholars have found that many of the Negro slaves came from a highly advanc ed civilization. j Considerabe attention is given to the slaves as well treated, content ed, and happy. One textbook says that the descriptions of slave life which have come down to us vary (greatly; but decides that on the whole the slaves of the South were considerately treated. | This, to say the least, a doublous statement. The existence of dissatis faction among the slaves as attend ed by more than a hundred slave re volts, is glossed over in most of the texts. True the Nat Turner rebel lion is frequently mentioned in his tory books but it is usually explain ed as a result of Northern abolition ist efforts rather than of slave un rest. Similarly, only a few of the texts indicate that the Negroes I themselves played an important role jin the operation of the underground | railway by which many Negroes fled to free territory. And few hooks even mention the fact that many Negroes never were slaves, that there were nearly half a mil lion free Negroes in the United States in 1860. t Negroes in the Reconstruction Period Discussions of Negroes during the Reconstruction Period too often stress their participation in the cor ruption of the time. The reasons .why incompetent Negroes were fleeted to positions of responsibility are not usually given. The fact that | not all Negroes were incompetent and that all White office holders were competent is not made as clear as it should be. Many of the books describe the Negroes as overwhelm ed with Joy when told of their free dom. Often the same books describe ( them both as contented with the se curity of their position as slaves and as wildly celebrating their free- ATTENTION CAR OWNERS W«* are now able to help you get aW. 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White) pas sengers did not have to change. She asks for a general order forbidding jim crow practices in future.- Be cause M#te. Perez had already sued for $100,000; the companies ask the Interstate Commission to drop the case. In Brown Sub on Tuesday three Negroes held up the Ace Men’s Shop, 5628 NW 27th ave., took SSO <and a supply of clothing. A fourth waited in the car at the curb. As they sped away with the booty, two men who saw the robbery from across the street got the license number and turned it over to the police. 1 On Monday Federal Judge John W. Holland admitted 65 lawyers to practice in the United States Dis trict Court. Congressman George Smathers who defeated Senator Claude Pepper in the June Primary, is touring the state saying hello and thanking his supporters. He will be opposed in the election on November 7 by the Republican Candidate John T. Booth hut that means little, Smath ers election to the Senate is a cer tainty. Some of the fellows already sug gested two names as deputies to our new constable. Well at least three candidates have pledged that if elected, they will appoint a deputy. We should have them. I think. We should even have a woman as dep uty. Why can’t we ask for one? Will the director of Public Safety please ride through 19th street from Fifth avenue to Fifth court? Just jOne block will do. I am sure the ( next day or two that street will he repaired. It is in very bad condition. Fire early on Monday morning destroyed the building just north of St. Agnes church, NW 3rd ave. A beauty parlor was operated there. The equipment was lost. dom. i Few books even state that large number of Negroes hold responsible jobs under the United States Civil Service and under the civil service systems of many states and cities. Even books which recognize the con tributions, which Negroes have made to American civilization neg lect to mention more than one or two outstanding Negretes. The in fluence of labor unions on Negro workers is rarely even mentioned. Descriptions of the religious family, social, and general cultural activi ties of Negroes are either not given or are so general that they are al- Imost without meaning.”