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SOCIAL & PERSONAL I _ MINNEAPOLIS J • \ hower WM pven for Mrs Marlyn Bobinson by th neighborhood Sewing Circle Friday night, March 11th. Mri rosephine W ade acted as hostess at the shower which was hel it the home of Mrs. Lois Murphy, 3741 Fifth Ave. So. Mrs. Rot nson received among other things a lovelv large crib blanket rhose present included Mmes. Delia Nevils, Teresa Carey, Li! ian Lee, Ava Blackwell, Louverne i Mrs. Bert Wade, 3621 Fourth Ave. So., is home from Maternity hospital. She arrived home Sun day morning March 13. Mrs. O. L. Ben ford, 905 Aldrich Ave. No., returned home from St. Mary's hospital Saturday March 12. Mrs. Benford has been very ill, but is feeling much better since her return home. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Under wood, 3512 Clinton Ave. So., enter tained the newly married Mr. and Mrs. James Morris at an after wedding dinner Saturday March 12. The dinner guests included Messrs, and Mmes. Samuel Wat son, Alexander Abrahams, Eddie Lee, Thaddeus Nichols, Earl Mil ler, Arthur Lee, Misses Bonnie Fields, St. Paul, Millie Greer, Juanita Nevils. Miriam Fite, Mmes. Jane Tyrell, Norma Cooper, Gloria Green, Messrs. William Wheaton, St. Paul. Gaines Mcln tosh, Clarence Underwood, Wayne and John Glanton and A. J. Wil kerson. Harriet Bowman. 3612 .Fourth Ave. So., celebrated her birthday Wednesday March 9 at her home. The Senior Usher Board of St. Peters church met Wednesday March 16 at the home of Mrs. Ralph Wilson. 3749 Fourth Ave. So. Mr. Harley Morris, 110 Hyland Ave. No., was host at a staff party ffiven in honor of Mr. James Mor ris who was married Saturday. March 12. The ffuests were Messrs. Gaines Mclntosh, A. J. Wilkerson. Wayne and John Glanton. Earl Miller, Arthur Lee and Clarence Underwood. The Cantinos met Tuesday niffht at the home of their directress, Mrs. Hallie Ewinff, 4048 Fourth Ave. So. The Religious Board of Educa tion of St. Peters Church met Tuesday March 15 at the church. Plans were made for the following month. Mrs. Wreatha Maxwell is head of the board. The first rehearsal for the parti cipants in the annual St. Thomas IRA YM ER HARDWARE CO. 1H Block E of Robert St * Hardware - Batata - Toola Catelry • (.arden Tool* ■ N Yaw trym AiA*/ W I I A IUxU 1 ■ II E. eih Bdt. Wob. and C«da> I OPTOMETRIST & OPTICIAN W QJL 1430 W "STORE OF HAPPINESS" Herbert S. Bernstein JEWELERS QUALITY WITH A CREDIT SERVICE II EAST SEVENTH STREET CEDAR 0483 Shop and Sara WHITE FRONT PROVISION Pi«k Mml Dairy Product* Orocorio* Proak Fruit* t Vagatsbl** ftol & St. Anthony Fi— DeiJrery ELK. 1388 —— -. .—.—. a-. 430 Robort St. (Nsxf to Emponvm) CE 4881 ROBERT STREET MARKET Proak Fruit* - Vogotablo* - Grocorio* - Quality Moat* and Poultry WE FEATURE YOUR FAVORITE BRAND OF WINES & lIQUORS It's O.K. To Owe Lon Kaye Perfect Diamond Solitaires . ®AII in beautiful 14 K. mountings. Sido stones or platinum if preferred. l>«r In Van W omrnn' DRESS WATCHES Jjßjgh 33” Imr. MEN S i/r.jrt looking drev* , *j) j W*tch now designs, yellow ,d, 2fr?,,.„ ”, LOU KAYE JEWELERS 450 Vt Wabasha Street Striiid TkMtr* IviMiaf style show was held at the church Thursday March 10. The Pragmateia Sorority of Minneapolis was the dinner guest of the Business and Professional Girls Club of the YWCA Wednes day evening March 9. The evening was enjoyable. The members of the sorority attending the dinner were Mmes. Sara Nicholson. Vir ginia Merrill and Misses Patricia Mallory and Martha Kay. The sorority will meet Friday March 18 at the home of Mrs. Virginia Merrill. 1849 E. 24th St So. Cpl. Arthur Graham arrived in the city Sunday March 13 to visit his parents after spending three years in France and Germany. He is the son of Mrs. Celeste Burrows, 1800 17th Ave. So. Mrs. Gordon Granger, 3624 Fourth Ave So., returned home re cently from General hospital. Her condition is improving nicely. The Neighborhood Bridge Club met Monday March 14 at the home of Mrs. Harvey Moss. 3906 46th Ave. So. Following bridge after a delicious luncheon served by the hostess. The prizes were won by BENEFITS ARE NOT AUTOMATIC DON’T DELAY FILING CLAIM Tom Larkin reached his 65th birthday on a Saturday. He was pleased as a kid about it. “Its mighty neat to have it come out that way,” he said. "I’ll finish up the week and finish up the job at the same time.” That night he packed up his tools and soid good-by to the job he had held for over forty years. “From now on, I’m a man of leisure,” Tom said to his cronies. “With our savings and my old age benefits. Della and I can live out the rest of our lives without work ing. It's the pipe and the paper for me from now on." After that day, Tom was always on the lookout for the postman - he was expecting his social secur ity benefit check to come any day. But it didn't come and it didn’t come. After two months’ time, Tom Larkin got mad. He wrote the Social Security Administra tion. “Why haven’t I received my benefit check?" he wrote. “I need benefits now, not when I'm dead.” He got » letter back pronto." And that wan the first time Tom knew be had to file a claim before he could get bt'nefits. Are you another Tom Larkin, or do you know that social secur ity benefits are not automatic— that you have to file a claim be fore you get your monthly check? And do you know that every Mrs. Jesse Shepard, first; Mrs. Harvey Moss, second; and Mrs. Eugent Shepherd, third. The next meeting will be held in two weeks at the home of Mrs. Chas. Noble. The Twin City Annual Meeting of the Forty Chib was held Sunday March 13 at the Phyllis Wheatly House. The results of the election which was held is as follows: Mr. J. E Johnson, president; Mrs. E. V. Marshall, vice president; Mr. Wendell Jones, secretary; Mrs. Clarence Roper, treasurer; Mrs. Norman Howell, St Paul, chair man and Mrs. Palmer Jackson, Minneapolis chairman. Visitors to EagUad Every foreign visitor above the age of 16 who la permitted to stay In Britain more than two months la required to register with police. Visitors who are admitted for • stay not exceeding two months us ually are not required to register; M is sufficient for them to enter their nationality and other data in the register of the hotel or board ing house at which they are stay in*. If on landing, however, the visitor’s passport is endorsed with a definite direction to register with the police, he should report at once to the police of the district in which he Intends to reside. Local Anesthetic Thousands of compounds have been studied for anesthetic activity In the last 40 years, but procaine, or novocain, discovered at the be ginning of that period, is still prob ably the most generally used local anesthetic. We can't reserve to ourselves the right to do wrong and expect the world to peacefully go on month’s delay in filing after you quit work may mean a loss of part of your benefits? Almost every day social security offices are uncovering instances where men and women have passed up benefits they have earn ed and to which they have a right simply because they didn't go and ask for them. The some conditions hold true with regard to survivor benefits, those monthly payments or lump sums which may be paid to sur vivors of workers who die after qualifying periods in covered em ployment. Claims must be filed at Social Security Administration field offices, and undue delay in filing such claims may mean loss of these insurance payments, just the same as in retirement cases. To make sure you get all of the benefits that may be due you under Federal old-age and surviv ors insurance, you should get in touch with the nearest field office of the Social Security Administra tion when you reach 65, whether you intend to retire or not. And as a worker who is interested in the insurance protection of his family, make it a point to tell your family that your social security :count is building benefit rights for them, and tell them to get in touch with the social security office if anything should happen to you. Druckers Grocery GROCERIES & MEATS 316 Rondo Da. 9967 We appreciate your patronage CAPITOL MEAT CO. 515 Wabasha Street "Better Meats for Lese" Meats Priced to Pit the Arerage Purse. B. E. SCOTT ACCIDENT and HEALTH INSURANCE Prompt. Co«ri*ou* Stmc* 160 S Pioneer Bunding „ Phone*—GA. 2827 - 2828 ELECTRIC & HAND HAIR CLIPPERS ggKfpreii CE. 6743 479 St. Peter Wr :■ t pickmiiiii Emis Bifocals AfU ea||M md Trifocals le/jS Dr - Go h art Loudon Opt..mrtrtst < edit ■ I Ttt. CA 1244 ■ '.V ■ l»r« M'.ndsf Pee tir •e- 4!li-.ne4 fee I < »*r MARTIN'S FOOD MARKET Rend* 8 St. Alton* DA 7854 3uat4*ry* Jue Pru^* W 1 DCLIViI f^^ofCToDStnusSßl^l The film “Snake Pit” tackled forcefully and intelligently the prob lem of mental illness, and conditions in mental institutions. What “An Ace of Murder” will do to increase public understanding of victims of incurable diseases, is highly debatable. Starring ■ Frederic March and Florence Eldridge. the picture tells the depressing story of a cold-hearted judge who discovers his wife is suffering from an incur able brain disease. From there on. the film deals with mercy killing and whether or not mercy killing is justified. The thing that worries me about this little movie is the effect it may have on highly imaginative in dividuals w'ho are easily swayed bp suggestion. The incurable disease is never identified by name. The symptoms of the disease could just as well be symp- NELL RUSSELL toms of a dozen other ailments, all of them cer tainly not incurable. For instance, a feller suffering from blinding headaches and faulty vision because he needs glasses, could have the wits scared out of him. The unhappy sufferer from migraine could also go home after an evening seeing the film, convinced that his days are numbered. The finale takes place In a court-room with March admitting he has been a pretty cool cookie and promising to mend his ways. Actually, the picture dabbles In the problem of mercy killing with out making too much of a case either “fer or agin”, although pro ducers obviously Intended It to be the latter. The danger Hollywood faces in dealing with controversial medical subjects is that a film may create exactly the opposite impression it was intended to create, phychologirally speaking. Now that "Snake Pit" has been one of the outstanding pictures of the past year, Hollywood will be releasing other films dealing with so called “hush” subjects. Naturally, few if any of them will pack the wallop of “Snake Pit ”. For some reason. W’hcn Hollywood goes in for realism it usually ends up being grim or depressing, or wandering around at loose ends, script-wise. The producers of foreign films have mastered the technique of achieving realism without going mawkish or wallowing In the look -we*ve-got-a-mea—go ay nip. “Palsan,” which was nothing more than a scries off war episodes stmng together, could never have come out off Hollywood. Neither could “Red Shoea,” nor “Hamlet”. “Paisan” opened with the episode of the Negro sergeant and the little Italian ragmuffin war orphan. The scene between the sergeant and the urchin as they sat on the nibble heap had to come out of a foreign film factory. An American picture would never have allowed a Negro to talk of walkipg into the Waldorf Astoria and eating caviar, or riding down Broadway as a hero. Then, heaven forbid, never would a Negro soldier have been portrayed as a Jeep-riding member of a military police batallion in an American film. The southern market, you know. An American film wouldn’t have dared show the bedroom episode between the prostitute and the G. I. If it had. the next episode would have shown the prostitute reformed, dewey-eyed and pure as she walked to the altar with her American lover, who had come back thru hell and high water to forgive all and claim his bride. In “Paisan.” the G.I. did what thousands of other G.l.’s did, remembered when he was drunk and forgot when he was sober. Hollywood still has to grow up. Maybe the Immaturity In Amer ican films Is merely symbolic of the immaturity In the American way off life, We haven’t suffered enough as a people. We’ve been too safe, too smug, too secure.*Eiiropean films reflect the suffering, the stark realism, the appreciation of human values that two wars in a generation have brought. The scene between the Negro ser geant and the Italian urchin In “Paisan” showed that the Italians have learned more about the heartache and longing off the Ameri can Negro than a hundred of the most highly publicized “race rela tions experts” this side of the Atlantic. When the sergeant talks of walking Into the Waldrof and eating caviar, then suddenly stops short and realizes how ridiculous he sounds i because he knows his American home is only a shack, it told more than the preachments of Broadway and Hollywood put together. That’s the realism of maturity rather than of the professional script pounded out by some guy with the assignment to put over ”a message”. Once in aw’hile Hollywood comes up with a “sleeper,” a film that hits the market without fanfare or super ballyhoo. (The more medio core the film, the louder the comc-on). Because of quality and excellent production, the picture is a rare Jcw’cl. Maybe T’ll have news for you about "a sleeper” one day soon. They say the Man Upstairs protects fools and children. Because I am doubly fortified, my score on predetions has topped even Mr. Drew Pearson’s. Some of the things T write here sound so odd at the time they appear. I suppose many of you think T am without my mental buttons. So far. because luck has been with me. Yours Truly has been able to modcstly(?) say “T TOLD you so!” on more than one occasion Right now. I’m feeling all right because for two years T plugged the cause of Negro acts and predicted how they would be accepted by local audiences. Didn’t T TELL ya’ Huh Seems as if there’s only one item that worries the managers in the spots now bringing in biegr talent. The college kids who gang the place on week-ends aren't spenders. They take up some of the spare the plush payers could be using. College kids everywhere present the same problem to nightclub managers. As I’ve said before, clubs In larger cities handle this problem without too much difficulty. The waiters or waitresses ran spot “one glass slppers” without any trouble. As soon as the glass Is empty, they whisk It away, and then say. looking the cus tomer straight In the eye: "Is there anything ELSE, air?” It takes a little practice to get just the proper savvy Into this ma neuver, but once perfected, it’s the most deadly crushes to deadbeats! If the kid 1* slow on the uptake, the waiter continues to circle the table at intervals, giving the fish eye to the party At proper intervals, he insists: "Would you like to ORDER NOW. sir’” Believe me It works: I'm sending a copy of this column to the hoys at the Carnival, the Dome, Snyders, Curleys, etc. If It took ’em so long to get hep to the value of Negro entertainers, It may taken ’em a while to get hep to the art of handling customers with long staying power and short pocket hooks. Now I’m waiting to see how long it’s going to take the Flame Room and the Minnesota Terrace to put some birge color into fheir shows How about Lena Horne, the Nicholas Brothers, (now breaking box offire records in Europe). Ella Fitzgelard, the Peters Sisters (not too long back from Europe). Then there’s Lll Fitzgerald the long tall songstress and stylist. And the golden-voiced Billy Daniels? What about Billy Eckstine for the Carnival, eh. boys? MENTION THIS PAPER TO ADVERTISERS ' ——•» JOE'S GROCERY 441 Rondo Avenue (Corner Arundel) Groceries, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Cold Meats - Dairy Products - Cosmetics & Notion* Cigars - Cigarettes - Tobacco BERDES FOOD CENTER ii !: ueneu Mtats at ioweb mices- 1 , I M WABASHA C *DA* 1457 FRESH MEATS. POULTRY. FISH and DAIRY PROOUCTS j | « ► Fruit*. Grocaf»•« and VagetobUa < > TED'S LIQUOR STORE 472 N. Lexington at University WHISKEY. WINE and BEER We Deliver Front and Bear Entrance DA. 4040 Eaey Parking BIRTHDAY GREETINGS —,. _ .... Illrtkday (irttllßgai March 22 Mr a Idalls Wallace, 571 Olson Bird.; Oodstein Jackson. 422 Emtrion Ava. S’ ; Bather M. Jordan. 307 Dupont Ave. N : March 23 Mrs K L. Sima. 4040 4th Ava S.; John W. Carter, 3905 Clinton Ava « ; Mrs Wm. Moden. 3409 3rd Ava. 8.; Mary Johns, 110 lllchland Ave. N.; Barbara Mas Green. 307 Dupont Ave. N.: William Seabron, 3301 25th Ave 8 ; March 24 —Gerry Hoimulst. 1934 Fremont Ave 8 ; Mrs. Garnett Jones, 3619 Snelllnir Ave 8.; Carol Gunderson, 3119 4th Ave S ; March 25—Wm. A. Wormley. 3940 4th Ava S.; EL C. Shelby. KOI Sth 8t N.; Anderson J. Martin. 912 llth Ave. N.; Dorothy Whittaker. 51* Ilutnbolt Ava. N.: Belle M OKden. 1403 Bast 21st St.; March 27—Mrs. Home I ind Glanton, -•4 25 4th Ave. 8.; Wm N. Callao, 2316 sth Ave. 8.: Mrs Wm. Johnson, 2410 Hiawatha Ava.; Donald Brown, 392* sth Ave 8 ; J. B. Crawford. 1102 Bast 2*th 8t : Clyde Scroairlna, *3 Hoyalston Ave N.; Mrs. James P. 11111. *O4 Aldrich Ave N ; March 21 Miss Fontella Wilson. 51* 10th Ave 8.; Area Wrl*ht. 2*12 Pills - bury Ave OMt-af-town Greetlnaei March SI Reginald A. Johnson. New York, N Y March 24—Mrs. Dorothy But ler, Chicago. M Miles, Louis ville, Ky , Man li 25—Barbara Anne Washington. Kansas City, Kanaaa; March 24—Florence Mann. Jr., Chl cago; Murrh 27—Evelyn Welch. 2601 Gary, Ind.; March 2*— Alfred Me Kenny, Bast Chicago, Ind. Birthday (•reellngsi March 14— Mrs, Berllnda Washington. 437 Ron do Ave; Jessie L. Howard, 571 Carroll Ave.; Beverly Jean Hender son, 450 Bt. Anthony Ava.: Marsh St ; Lucille Brown, 404 N. Dale Bt.; 21 —John A. Chapman, 445 Wacouta Mrs. Dorothy Scott. 555 W. Jessa mine. Janet Armstrong, 795 Rondo Ave March 22 —Richard Stokes. 757 St. Anthony Ave ; Judy Jonas, 707 W Central Ave ; March 23—Willie Gordon Kirk. 9*3 Carroll Ava.; Mra. Hasel K. Howland, 6*3 Carroll; March 24—Samuel Johnson. 471 Igle hart Ave ; Boland McFarland. 1014 Hondo Ave ; Thomas Lyght, 441 W. Watson, 260 Hondo Ave.; March 17 Central Ave.; March 24 Wllda Seaton, 1520 Cumberland; Walter Bennett. *72 St. Anthony; Arthur II IV Rhodes, H*9 St. An thony; March 2*--Bonla Johnson, 406 Dale Ave. Out-of-fn l.rrHlaMi March II -Hoy Davis, Scatlls, Washington. The time hat* pasiied when Negro clubs could selfishly pursue their own problems without re gard to the whole community. We realize that our lives are bound up with those of others. We must either take part in at least the major civic movements or be pushi'd aside as irresponsible sec ond rate citizens. Marshall Bragdon and Virginia Bragdon In Ohio State News. Just so much of this world di*pends upon you, and to happi ness alone, depends NOT on what y<»u NAY, hut on what you DO. ml lOfi WELL-BAKED BY ZINSMABTIR Dale Electric Co. ELECTRIC APPLIANCES 165 W. 7th St., CE. SZIS BOYD APPLIANCE Sales & Service 631 W. Central DA.9534 SPORTING GOODS Radio Tubes Tested and Sold light Hardware PACKAGED FUEL ICE WOOD WE MAKE KEYS HOURS 8 a m—6 p.m.—Closed Sunday, and Holiday, COKE Zenith Stove A Nut. $24.60 Petroleum Carbon . . . 25.05 Indiana Egg 14.05 Indiana Stoker Coal <l’/«) 13.55 Caih in 3 Ton Loti THORNE Coal & Oil Co. NE. 7146 For the Best Selections of COAL CALL GA. 3712 NORTH WESTERN HANNA FUEL CO. tt E. Sixth St Friday, xMrch 18, 1848 St Paul REORDER Pa«a S SOCIAL & PERSONAL * ST. PAUL Como Temple No. 128, IBPOE of W, celebrated ita 29th birthday Thursday, March 17 at the Elks rest, 588 Rondo Ave. Mrs. Mae Lark is the daughter ruler of the organization. The Crispus Attucks Home Aasociation held ita first meet ing since its reorganization Tuesday, March 15, at the Hallie Q. Brown house. Mrs. Lezar Howard is the newly elected presi dent: Mrs. Roberts Tvler vlrr * president; Mrs. Lillian Brown, treasurer and Mrs. Jean Waters, secretary. The group meets each third Tuesday of each month at Hal He. The Ladles Aid Society of Pil grim Baptist church will meet Friday, March 18 at the home of Mrs. R. L. O'Shielda, 606 Rondo Ave., at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Euayee Lewis, 844 Igls hart Ave., is at home 111. She is under the doctor's care. The Civil Liberties League of St. Paul will hold ita regular meeting at 8 o'clock Friday. March 25, at the Elks Rest. James Thomas Is president of the league. The Future Builders club met Wednesday. March 8. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy, 622 St. Anthony Ave. They discussed the possibilities of giving a rum mage sale In the near future. The next meeting of the club will be at Hallie Q. Brown house Wednesday, March 23. At her 88th birthday celebration Mrs. Martha Johnson received many gifts. She was guest Sun day, March IS at a dinner given by her daughter, Mra. Helen Wil liams, 935 Iglehart Ave. Another guest at the affair was Mrs. FAST IXPIR T PEN REPAIR CHASE PEH SHOPS Bremif Arcade and J* W 7th The BIG 1949 SHRINE CIRCUS ST. PAUL AUDITORIUM 6 days and nights Mar.2o *Hj CIRCUS ACTS HU JOE WELCH’S WILD QEO. XANNAFORD FAMILY ANIMALS THE WALLENDAS THE SHYRETTOS LA LABE SCOTTS ELEPHANTS FLVINQ HA OLOS CLOWNS, PONIES EDUCATED SEALS TRAINED DOQS THE ORANTOS Get your tickets ear It at FleM-SchMrk and plan to see the Mg show the fore part of the week. Mimdsv la l-kbor night and Thursday Is St Patrick’s night at the Circa*. General ad mis* sloo. *I.OO (tas Included). Reserved seats, lland 83.00 (las Included). If you're a modern woman you Lj 1 | | fl*---j— -----want a modern home. And that HM ! i f mean* want an 41 1-Klee trie yg£* ' I kitchen. One of the reaaona is f -j f N that it's so much cleaner. to keep clean, tint, iteeauw the y , \ iV. ItJ an range an fM aa aunahine. When r«M»k electrically, your range ■ lava cleaner, ami so do your walla, woodwork and drape*. This eitra cleanliness not only saves vmi cleaning time and money, hut makes your homa more attractive. Yes, the 411- Klectrie kitchen is for you If jv you’re modern. So when you crfijf remodel your kitrhen, or when you build your new home . .. FOR MODERN LIVING... & &> GO AIL-ELECTRIC! tm tw wctmc AmiAMa MAuii NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY Eudora Morris. 306 N. Cbata worth. Mr. and Mrs. Nilas Smith. 222 Rondo Ave., worn inadvertently omitted from the llat of gueata at the anniversary celebration of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lewis, of tha tame address. At this occasion, an anniversary song was played on radio station KBTP for the couple. Mrs. William Hanna, 620 N. Western Ave., has been 111 under the doctor’s care for almost three weeks. She la doing much better now. The 8L Anthony Hill Garden club will have their first meeting of the year Monday, March 21, at the home of Mrs. Mayme Green, 775 St Anthony Ave. The chib has a varied program ahead far the year. Mra Eva Neal la presi dent of the club. Mra Geraldine Harding has moved from the home of Mra Carrie Powell to the home of Mra Josephine Todd at 868 Rondo Ave. The Nodal and literary Nadety of Pilgrim Baptist church mat Tuesday night March 16 at the home of Mra Emaline White, 772 Rondo Ave. Mra Regina Morris is president of the dub. Your Headquarter* far Johnson Outboard Motors BALLARD'S 106 WMi GA. UII