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MIAMI TIMES, MIAMI, FLORIDA
PAGE SIX
Key Wester Helps Liberia
Solve Economic Problem
By JAMES J. FOREE
CHICAGO (ANP) Al
though Liberia was colonized by
American Negro freedmen in 1820
and declared its independence in
1847, many of its economic prob
lems were not solved until during
World War II and the arrival of
a U.S. mission on health and eco
nomics.
With the mission came Frank
Pinder, 35, native of Key W<pst,
Fla., and a graduate of Florida
Agriculture college. Pinder was
well equipped for his work in
Liberia. He had worked with poor
sharecroppers in the Everglades,
taught at Tuskegee institute and
served as an economist in the
Farm Security Administration.
Pinder was not only an experi
enced farmer and teacher; he also
was a diplomat who knew how to
get people to cooperate in doing
things.
In Liberia, although there was
an abundance of farmers and farm
land, Pinder soon observed that
the 1,600,000 inhabitants were not
producing enough food to keep
themselves healthy. His first ef
fort was directed toward removing
this situation.
A plan submitted to relieve this
acute problem gained the sup
port of the government. Pinder
renovated the produce and poul
try market.
When he first arrived in Liberia
onions sold in the market for five
cents each and cabbage for one
cent a leaf. Now you can buy
onions and cabbage for a few
cents a pound. The same thing
happened to tomatoes, rice, sweet
potatoes, eggplant, sweet peppers,
corn, string beans, cucumbers and
many other products.
One of his most successful ex
periments was with the chicken.
“The cflfckens were pretty
scrawny,” Pinder said, “and the
eggs were so small you might
have thought they came from a
robin’s nest.”
The mission and the Liberian
government, with the cooperation
of the Booker T. Washington In
stitute, imported several hundred
giant roosters from the U. S. With
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these, Pinder and his co-workers
began breeding big, meaty chick
ens that produced big eggs.
Soon news of this improved
chicken got around and Pinder
agreed to sell them to lacal farm
ers provided they would feed
them according to rules he had
impossible for Pinder to get many
worked out.
Wartime restrictions m a d e it
of his supplies, so he started by
throwing a couple of bags of seed
and some light tools on his back
and disappearing into the jungle
with a Liberian helper.
As a visiting diplomat Pinder
could have commanded the best
for his transportation. This would
have included when traveling on
land a hammock slung between
four bearers, and on water, a
canoe with someone else to do the
paddling. However, in seven years
he has never ridden in a ham
mock or been paddled. Sometimes
he goes by air or jeep, but most
ly he walks.
Travelling in swamp lands has
given Pinder his share of tropical
diseases, such as malaria, and
dysentery.
“But they don’t give me jnuch
trouble anymore,’ he said on a
trip to Washington for consulta
tions in July. “We have lots of
better medicines now.”
Along the trails, worn through
the low jungles and the higher
ground of the “hinterland” by
generations of Liberians, Pinder’s
usual costume was a white shirt,
khaki pants, and heavy work
shoes.
A stocky figure of medium
height, he swung along with an
easy stride, thin wisps of smoke
drifting from the pipe he invari
ably had clamped in his teeth.
He made friends with the
people. At every village he came
to, he went to the palaver house,
which was also the guest house,
and presented himself to the
chief. During the ensuing dis
cussion, he turned the conversa
tion to crops, seeds, and methods
of cultivation. People who lived
close to hunger were always in
terested in this.
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Forward steps in rebuilding the
! NAACP in Florida have been
i taken recently with the organiz
! ing of new groups in Green Cove
Springs, Holly Hill, Center Hill,
and Lake Worth, and with the
reviving of old branches in St.
Augustine and Palatka.
The initial effort in Green Cove
Springs was made on the 3rd
Sunday in July, when Harry T.
Moore, executive secretary of the
Florida NAACP, was invited to
meet with a group there. Officers
elected were: Acie Strong, presi
dent; Mrs. Ola Mae Berring, sec
retary; Mrs. Annie L. Small,
treasurer. Application for a char
ter has been made with 62 mem
bers. On this same Sunday Secre
tary Moore spoke to large audi
ences during morning and night
services at St. Mary Baptist and
Shiloh Baptist Churches in St.
, Augustine, where committees were
' appointed to solicit memberships.
Reorganization of the branch was
completed on Aug. 19th when
solicitors reported 44 full mem
berships and 12 partial member
ships. Officers elected were: Ellie
Smith, president; Oscar Turner,
vice president; George Davis, sec
retary; Leonard Adger, treasurer.
The state secretary also has
helped to organize NAACP com
mittees in Lake Worth and Holly
Hill with 16 'members each. Lake
Worth officers are: Archie Pat
rick, chairman; Rev. I. A. Banks,
secretary. Officers at Holly Hill
are: Timothy Gadson, chairman;
Mrs. Elsie Peterson, secretary.
Capt. L. E. Hall, chairman of the
sth District, recently organized a
committee at Center Hill with 14
members.
The first effort to revive the
Palatka Branch was made on July
31, when the secretary spoke
to about 125 veterans at the night
school under the principalship of
Joseph Green. Seventeen veter
ans paid dues then, while 69
others pledged their memberships.
Other Florida branches organ
ized this year are Eustis, Liberty
City, and Homestead, while pro
gress has been made in reviving
the NAACP in Alachua County,
Apopka, Gifford, Oviedo, Boyn
ton Beach, and Dunnellon. Efforts
also are being made to revive
branches in, Leesburg, Crescent
City, Coconift Grove, Stuart, and
Kissimmee, and to organize the
NAACP in Dania, Bunnell, Alta
monte Springs, and Boca Raton.
Persons interested in organizing
or reviving the NAACP in their
communities are urged to write
Harry T. Moore, state secretary,
Mims, Fla.
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Convention, U. S. A., Inc., that the
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1. Organize a Coupon Club in your
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2. Urge your grocer to keep well
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