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PAGE FOUR FLORIDA’S FAVORITE ggfcOf&P WEEKLY Published Every Magic Prlntery Office at 1112 N.W. Third Aven,aa*|i»fhlr Florida—Telephone 3-2236 Plant at 6740 N.W. Telephone 84-6128 Entered as Second Class 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 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: OM£ YEAR $4.00 SIX MONTHS $2.50 THREE MONTHS $1.50 X NEGRO COMMISSIONER The resignation of Commissioner Robt. Floyd who has been elected as State Representative creates a vacancy which must be filled by the four remaining City Commis sioners. The commissioners have iriade several attempts to fill the vacancy but to no avail. A number of Miami’s most prominent citizens, including one ex-mayor and several ex-commissioners have been voted upon unfavorably. The vote has always been a deadlock. Mayor William Wolfarth and Commisioner Louis Bandel against Commissioners William Charles Perrin© Palmer. The vacancy ought to be filled without delay. We have what we think is a solution to this problem and in all seriousness we are making this suggestion. Gentlemen, suppose you appoint a Negro to fill the vacancy on the commission. We see no good reason why such an appointment should not be made. The Negro population in Miami is about 60,000. Are they not entitled to consideration? Appointment of a Negro at this time would be one of the biggest things Miami has ever done. It would be his tory making for the South. In support of our suggestion we mention the names of some of those we believe qualified to serve on the city commission: Dr. K. L. Pharr, Dr. I. P. Davis, Atty. G. E. Graves, Atty. John Johnson, Mr. Luther CarjT, Mr. Sumner Hut cherson, Mr. Melvin Jackson, Mr. Cmarles North. These are well known business and professional men, all of them interested in the welfare and growth of Miami. Whether any of these names are considered or not, gentlemen we want you to know how we are thinking. - TO THE RESCUE The Dunbar Nursery, located on the Dunbar school grounds at 505 NW 20th street, is nearing completion, but work had to be discontinued because all available funds were spent and there were several unpaid bills. The com mittee was somewhat disheartened and was wondering from whom SISOO could be borrowed until later on in the season when subsciptions are asked and some form of entertainment given to raise the money. Mr. L. L. Brooks was approached and without any hesitancy loaned the committee the SISOO. The committee was overjoyed. Now the debts can be paid and work can be resumed. We want to commend Mr. Brooks for his big heart edness. He is the manager of the Bonded Collection Agen cy, one of the biggest of its kind in Miami. Mr. Brooks has always been interested in community matters and makes his contribution financially and other wise. In the not distant future a membership drive will be put on for the nursery. It is hoped a large enrollment will be reported. KNOW THE FACTS If a recent survey made of a group of high school seniors produced typical views, American education is giving the student a highly erroneous idea of how Ameri can industry operates and the size of the profits it earns. These seniors were asked to estimate how much prof it the average company makes. Their answers averaged 50 percent. The true figure, covering a long period of years, is about six per cent. They were asked to estimate the average investment \ per worker in American industry. Their figure was $81 — while the proper answer would have been $8,000! They estimated that the annual return to industry’s stockholders averages 24 per cent. Actually, it was three per cent on net assets in 1949 which was a good year for practically all lines of enterprise. The same seniors, by a margin of 61 per cent, then said they favored closer government regulations of bus iness as against free competition whereas it is really free competition that keeps profits and prices down. The point of all this is that ignorance and misunder standings do more than anything else to create distrust of > fret enterprise. A man who honestly believes that busi ness makes extortionate profits and operates solely for the benefit of a group of bloated plutocrats, is a man ripe for the phony blandishments of the socialists and the commun ists. Those who would destroy free enterprise and free government have small concern with the truth. They make the most of every misconception that exists in the public mind. ? Only those who know the facts can make intelligent decisions. And the place to start teaching those facts is in our schools and colleges. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1950 The Moving Finger BY L. A. THOMPSON In spite of inclement weather last Sunday and brother, it was cold outside members of the local Pall Bearers’ lodges trned out “like nobody’s business’’ The occasion was their annual service celebrating the founding of the order. Men, women and children accompanied by cornet bands tramped their way to Ebenezer Methodist and the St. John Baptist churches, respec tively, where appropriate services were held. It was thrilling to see some of the “older heads” defying the cold as they marched from 6th avenue and 21st st. down to 13th 1 and third. On the return to the 1 hall some of them were limping but they made it in any how! Congratulations. 1 The various branches of Pall j Bearers have taken Florida by storm. The order came upon the | scene at the opportune time, when | most of our secret fraternities | were dying from graft, and cor ruption in high places; then the ; Hooverian depression gave others ! a body blow that sent them reel ! ing. A few of the big orders were milched so dry they died from | malnutrition. The Pall Bearers saved the day. They have no high sounding promises, but they do aid the sick and bury the dead, and they give the “little man” a chance to grow! According to recent informa tion coming from the U. S. De partment of Agriculture Office of Information, Negro ownership of farms in the South increased from 173,263 in 1940 to 189,232 five years later. Not so bad. It shows that some folk are not ready to be “bottled up” in big cities, seeking what they cannot find. Land is still real wealth. Dr. William Pickens, educator, author, orator, and publicist, has retired from the position of di rector of the interracial section of the Treasury Department’s U. S. Savings Bonds Division. Be fore his appointment to that post in 1941 he was field secretary of the NAACP and vice president of Morgan College. Dr. Pickens is succeeded by Lemuel L. Foster of New York City. On Thanksgiving the local B. T. Washington and Dorsey high groups looked “pretty” on parade as they marched to Dorsey Park for the annual football tryout. Both bands played well and showed signs of good training. But the game was the thing. By long shot, Dorsey took the cake from Washington, to the disap pointment of all Washingtonians! Losing upsets almost everybody so it was with some of the young folk.. Well, you can’t win all the time - and it is in losing in your little battles that you learn to “take it” in the bigger battles of life. Losing is a sign that you are not quite as good as you thought, or that you underestimated your opponent. At any rate, don’t run hot and lose your head. Just keep cool and pull up for the next game. If you don’t win ’em all you can be a good sport. Just a week ago General Mac- Arthur announced that the “boys” would be home for Christmas. Now the Korean war is going against us as never before. Red China is reported to be sendiijg men by the tens of thousands to fight the UN forces, and the en tire picture has changed. Seems as if the Korean affair is one of a chain of incidents leading the ! world to tragic disaster. 1 ft*****' .# YOUR FEET NavarTaka a Vacation! HIM U GIVE YOU* WORN SHOES mjm/umRMU I WITH OLD SHOE COMFORT v JOHNSON & SONS Shoe Repair Shop Phone 7-9190 6570 NW 15th Avenue ® /me o'type i|j Stanley Sweeting MM THE WHITE “QUEENS” of many festivals have all ways given us a “show” before the bleachers, and they go so far as to throw us kisses, hand waves and pretty smiles. That is the way it should be. So, if this gesture of courtesy can come from other festival Queens, what in the hell is the matter with us? Suppose we give our Orange Blossom “Queen”, “Miss Famcee”, “Miss Booker T. Washington High,” “Miss Dorsey High,” “Miss Carver High,” and other brownskinned beauties on parade, a chance to “strut their stuff” before an apprec iative crowd of Colored and White fans who paid a heluva price to see the Orange Bowl Classic show. THE JOSEPH S. ROYALS (she’s Leona Nimmo) are expecting their Bundle sometime in late January or early February . . . Show man Bob White and M|S Leon Witherspoon were made Elks in Great er Miami Lodge Monday night . . . Barbara Weir, the thrush, is back from Harlem via her boyfriend, James Davenport’s expense account . . . The Gunn Sisters of West Palm Beach were Ivory Joe Hunter fans at the Rockland Palace Sunday night . . . U. G. Nixon, public re lations counsellor at Famcee, a Miami visitor . . . Ditto John Hicks, on a Refresher’s Course at Famcee, back home for the Classic. Hicks is Meharry Medical bound. Incidentaly, Hicks has a brother who was president of Meharry’s graduating class of 1949. Another brother is principal of Brooksville (Fla.) High. AL GOLDMAN’S newest link in his fast-growing chain of niter - les opens December 23rd in the Magnolia Park section of Opa Locka. Prognosticators focus the new nitery as being an ultra-modern swank with the possibility of a Billy Eckstine opening . . . Paul Williams and his Hucklebuck ork are a Harlem Club date for December 17 Pianist-blues vocalist Viola Edwards of the Richard Johnson band birthdayed last Sunday (Nov. 26) with a celebration at The Pool (the band’s home stand) Saturday night . . . The “At Dawn” aggre gation of clubwomen, meeting in its weekly session on Saturday mght, made two presentations of gifts to members whose birthdays arrived on the same day Monday, Nov. 27 Mrs. Henrietta Sweeting and Mrs. Geneva Blachshear. Mrs. Dolly Sweeting was hos tess to the At Dawners. RAY BARKLEY, youngest of the Barkley clan, arrived home last Sunday from Harlem for the Classic. Ray takes off for Havana, Cuba Sunday ayem before returning to his subway engineer’s throttle in New York’s underground ... The Mail Bag: Jackie Crowder, Perris, Cal; Norman Fishel, New York City; Emory Evans, New York City . . . Ray Foster erstwhile WTTT newscaster, tells me that his Blatz Beer assignment has come through . . . Jim Hanna, desperate illness at Jackson s, brought down a son, Hasten, from Harlem. A daughter, Viola Small, attended him until her departure for Detroit last Thurs day. Four other children, Arthur, Frank, Mary and Irma continue to be Miami residents . . . The Clarence Seniors (he’s the mortician; she’s Mane Martin) will be three in April. KIAH BROWN has a musical combo that operates out of Delray Beach. New instruments have recently been added to the outfit Did I tell you that Joe Green, with added avoirdupois, is here from the East ? ? ? Robbie Walker, long-time no see, (about 15 years in Manhattan) is down from the Big City as valet for Claude Thornhill’s ork, now in engagement at the University of Miami . . . Gladys Sampson Young, now a vivacious grandmother, parties her daughter Margie’s little young ‘un Monday on the tot’s 1 month birthday H. D. Williams, Afro Insurance agent, bedded at home with illness . . Atty Maxwell Thompson, here from Nassau . .. Dorothy Bur eile or rs * Arletha Williams’ (mother of maestro Sammy Williams) funeral last Monday, returned to the Big Apple Saturday. % MARY CARNEGIE feted her visiting mommy, Mrs. Mary Floyd return departure to her home town in McCrae, Ga., Tuesday night . . . Mrs. David Jenkins, widow of the slain photographer, David sitting, sad-eyed in Bunche Park Cocktail Lounge last Thursday night in company with the brother of her deceased hubby, who was buried from Ebenezer the day before . . . Songs via the Barbara Weir styl ings rate hearty applause . . . Entertainer Billy Daniels, New York case and night club star, is headed for Miami Beach’s fablulous Copa City come the approaching season . . . Enoch Powell of Broward County’s P.D., here mixing business and pleasure. ALEX MCDOWELL, the bluecoat, suffered 13 days of hospital confinement recently at Jackson’s. Admitted on the Bth the patrolman was dismissed on the 22nd . . . Orchid of the Week goes to the Uni versity of Miami football team, which, spearheaded by Jim Dooley, shook mits of congratulations with the ebony stars on the defeated lowa football team last Friday night. The game, an Orange Bowl thriller-diller, was won by Miami 14-6 . . . Bob White, former Case Society emcee-entertainer (now doing his chores at the Rockland Palace) goes back into character for Case Society patrons this week end Friday, Saturday, Sunday .. . Phil Harris, star of Club Para dise up at Liberia, ails at home. ST. MATTHEWS CHURCH plays host to what is labelled a two fold song-fest Monday night (Dec. 4). Featured on the bill are Direc tress Ruby Jane Hardie and her broadcasting artists. The Southland Singers versus Prof. James Moss’ Versatile Chorus, purveyors of clas sics and semis. It’s a scheduled must for 8:00 p.m. . . . Rev. Julius Brown gets the assignment to deliver the spiritual message to the Elks during their annual Memorial Service at Mt. Olivet Baptist Sunday afternoon, December 10 . . . Help the Kiwanis Club to help you by attending its Charity game and Christmas pageant next Friday night, December 8 at the Orange Bowl stadium. Money raised from this event helps to buy glasses and support the specially-equipped class at Dun bar Elementary School for children with defected sights. Tickets are on sale at Sweeting and North, 1188 NW Third Ave.. A TIMELY MEMO is one to remind you to attend the official Classic football dance (after the gume) on Saturday night at the Rockland Palace, when alumni and friends of both Florida and Wil berforce with their friends will dance (in victory) from the midnight hours until the wee sma hours of Sunday dawning. ... I’ll be seeing you at the the game . . . That’s it, folks! I’VE OFTEN WONDERED why those respon sible don’t permit “Miss Famcee’ and her attend ants to ride their float completely around the Orange Bowl arena as other “Queens” are allowed to do. The half-time spectacle, a dazzling show-off for Classic fans, is robbed of its brilliancy in de priving the Queen of this honor. What I am trying to convey was clearly brought out during the Un iversity of Miami-lowa game Friday night, wheh the parade of floats circled the huge Bowl for all to see.. There apear to be a bit of selfishness wrap ped around the limitations “Miss Famcee” and her attendants have to contend with. Or maybe some body is just plain afraid of offending somebody.