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MISTAKEN IDENTITY
A great ir.any funny dories are told regarding
t v .o inability of the majority group to determine on
fome occasions who is or who is not colored. Dur
ing the war it was reported that the \ irginia draft
loan'.' were -<> confused by this problem that they
appealed to the War Department for some guide in
(r<ar that they might not mistake a colored youth
for a white one and vice versa. Ihe brass hats al
legedly replied that the race of the person might
Eest be judged by the racial identity of his asso
ciates. In other words, if the majority of a draftee’s
friends and associates were colored, then it could
be assumed that the draftee was a darker brother. 1
This rule-of-the-thumb guide, while it may have
worked satisfactorily for the Virginia draft boards,
is apparently not acceptable to the police depart
ments of many of our large urban centers. 1 he cops
in Harlem have been charged during the last few
months with several grievous errors, and Harlem’s
press reports that a Nordic-looking Negro’s life is
r.o bed of roses in the ghetto, particularly since the
cops have declared Harlem oil-limits for whites
after sundown.
A most interesting case was reported last week
in Chicago where two vigilant members of the law
apprehended a big-name band leader, Eddie Mallory,
and his blonde spouse. The couple were on an eve
ning stroll on Chicago's Southside when they at
tracted the attention of the officers. Taking the
bull by the horns, so to speak, the two cops set out
to break up what appeared to be fraternization be
tween the races. Mrs. Mallory could not “prove”
the was colored and the cops, lacking any scientific
data on the subject, decided to act upon their
hunches and put the couple in the cooler.
In court the next morning, the magistrate, who
did not pretend omniscience, saw no evidence that
the Mallorys had disturbed the public peace by then
evening stroll and promptly dismissed the case. The
magistrate left the two cops holding the bag, and
now the Mallorys are suing them for enough dough
to buy the Brooklyn bridge. Since Mrs. Mallory
says she is colored and the cops admitted they had
acted upon the assumption that she was white, the
suit promises to be of great interest to laymen and
scientists* alike. We cannot conceal our hope that
the Mallorys win the suit and collect every red cent.
THE PRESIDENCY
When the aged mother of President Truman
was interviewed a few months ago she expressed
great pride in the fact that “Harry could plow the
straightest row in Missouri.” We are sure that if
Mother Truman is keeping up with the newspapers
these days she is discovering that a great many
Americans wish Harry had stuck to his plowing.
The more charitable among them have no objection
to a plowman being President, hut they feel that
every man ought to do that which he can do best.
At the moment President Truman is under
serious fire from the leaders of organized labor who
charge that he is appeasing industry. He is being
attacked by Negro leaders over the FEPC issue.
His recommendations on liberal measures are ig
nored by Congressional leaders and his own friends
in the Senate. The leftists, pink and red, are blasting
his foreign policy and his handling of the atomic j
bomb issue. Over the week-end the Republicans met
in Chicago and plotted in his downfall in 1048.- j
Now, as some predicted, Mr. Truman is square
ly behind the eight-ball and this happens at the very
Moment when the course of our post-war years must
be decisively decided. Here the stage is set for the
entrance of the hero, the audience holds its breath,
and Mr. Truman gets himself tied up in the wings
like a kitten with a ball of yarn.
What is w rung down at the White House? Is
Mr. Truman a malevolent character or just a nat
ural bungler? Here is our theory. Mr. Truman
has been sucked in by as poor a bunch of advisers
as have ever influenced a President. He is sur
rounded by a flock of incompetent, hick-town char
acters who, well-meaning or not, simply cannot rise
above their own mediocrity.
Save for Ickes and Wallace, his own cabinet is
full of wooden Indians. Jn the strategic position
of Secretary of Labor he has Mr. Schwellenbach,
who is too small for the job. As Secretary of State
he has Jimmy “South Carolina" Byrnes who has a
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE
record that would disqualify him for almost any
post in a true democracy. Very few of his admin
istrative aides have any prestige in their own right,
and some of them had no more to recommend them
than the fact that they came from Missouri of all
places.
A strong, forthright leader like the late Presi
dent Roosevelt was able to put up with some run
of-the-mill assistants. Mr. Truman, however, would
be the first to admit that he lacks the leadership
ability of his predecessor. Unless Mr. Truman sur
rounds himself with the most able and experienced
advisers he can find very soon, the tremendous re
sponsibilities of his high office are going to snow
him under. To fumble the hall in this transitional
period would not only be disastrous to him, but it
would create havoc throughout the nation. America
is at the cross-roads and we cannot rely on a policy
of muddling-through.
THE COURTS AND JIM CROW
For the first time in 68 years, it is reported,
the U. S. Supreme Court will shortly come to grips
with segregation in interstate travel. The Justices
have agreed to hear an appeal from a Virginia
Supreme Court decision brought by Irene Morgan.
The lady was bounced from a Greyhound bus be
cause she would not sit in the seats “reserved” for
colored passengers. The Virginia Supreme Court
held in this ease that the jim crow law’s of the state
did not infringe upon the Constitutional rights of
“either whites or Negroes.”
Miss Morgan and her legal aides are arguing
that the Federal Constitution which guarantees the
civil liberties of all citizens is violated by segrega
tion on interstate carriers. Now the august justices
have got to determine just what the U. S. Constitu
tion really means. We have a feeling that some of
our Southern friends are not going to like the in
terpretation of the justices. Judging by recent de
cisions, the U. S. Supreme Court seems to hold that
a man is a man, or in this case, perhaps a woman is
a woman, regardless of race and that citizens should
not be subject to discrimination or special public
treatment because of creed or color.
Segregation has long made travel a nightmare
for colored Americans, and only a few- Negroes, and
none in Dixie, have escaped its humiliation. If the
Supreme Court rules favorably for the lady plain
tiff, the time may come when a Southern sioter will
not have to pack her pillow, lunch basket, and duster
in order to bear up under the travel accommodations
of the sunny South. She may not have to sit directly
behind the baggage car and share seats with the
fireman and brakeman on those dinky trains with
the porcelain-top spittoons.
L A B D IV / (/s i ////rad
,m ~6Y GEO.W CROCKETT
PRESIDENT TRUMANS REC-,
OMMENDATION m the Congress
for legislation to permit the estab- .
lishment of fact-finding board- and 1
to suspend labor'*, right to strike !
during thr* time
required for
such boards to
operate and his
refusal to back
FEPC in its
fight with the
Washing! on
Capital Transit
company, indi
cates to us that
the President
envisions nei
ther his o.vn
re-election nor
•he return of
h: < party t o
power. It is an
:trr and com-
G. W. Crockett
plete abdication 1o a Congress al
eady controlled by the large cor- j
ponte interests and the Southern
tax bloc. i
The arguments advanced by CIO j
President Murray in opposition to'
the Truman labor proposal are it
refutable Murray condemns the
President for thus opening the*
Congressional flood-gates to re
strn tive labor legislation. he
points out the President's bias in
omitting to mention industry's sit
down strike against consumers: its
enormous wartime profit* and
prospective tax rebates; and its
e\ ident intent to use these finan-!
< il resources to break the back of
organized labor by destroying col-,
lr.tive bargaining and the other
gams made by Labor during the
p,<- twelve years of Democratic
administrations.
While Mr. Murray's promise
that the CIO Mill muster every
x gitigc of Its strength in opposi
tion to the President's proposal
does not mean, as the dally press
would have ua think, that the
C IO has broken with the Admin
istration. it Is the strongest ex
pression thus far of labor’s dis
appointment over Mr. Truman's
technique of proclaiming loudly
hut doing nothing.
• • •
NEGROES, as seen in the recent
resignation of Charles Houston
*om the FEPC, share identical
feelings with Labor on this point
They are reminded of previous
examples of the President's rruch
* /k-but-no action te hnique as
ten in the current tight to get
•Ovrihcr minimum wage legislation.'
* „—.rr rites of tinea plovment I
compensation, the creation of a
permanent fair employment prac- 1
♦ire* comr ,s*don and the exter,-
s on of aocial security to the large
! body of worker? who are still out
ride that program Mr. Truman
has come out strongly for each
of *hese But he has let the matter
. res* there.
Organised labor and the Ne
gro recall that FDR's practice
was to ACT either by exerutlxe
order or by taking his fight to
the people and relying upon
them to force favorable congres
sional action on aorlally desir
able matte vs
On the one occasion when La-
bor had been led to expect Presi
dent Truman to follow this
course, the President failed them.
While admitting that "certain
industries" could pay higher
wages, he studiously refrained
from saying how much—although
his own department heads had
reported to him that a twenty
four percent Increase in wages
could be given now without dis
turbing the price structure.
• • #
ON THE ONE occasion when
Negroes had expected Mr. Tru
man to support the present FEPC
—in the Washington Capital Tran
sit Ca-c— the President has let
them down too.
and the Negro have waited
long and patiently for Mr. Tru
man to make up his mind whether
he intends to be another FDR and
really give the nation progressive
leadership or be another Harding
or Coolidge and let "Big Business"
run this country.
Mr. Murray's speech and Hous
ton s resignation mean that La
bor and the Negro people see
in these recent Presidential fail
ures the most definite indication
thus far that Mr. Truman has
made up his mind adversely to
their desires.
• • •
BIT NEITHER Mr Murray’s
speech nor the Houston resigna
tion men jus that Labor and the
Negro intend to break irrevocably
with the Administration. Sound
political judgment would not
countenance such action in the
first year of a four-year term.
W’c can take it as certain, how
ever. that Labor and Negroes gen
e-ally will be increasingly more
distrustful of future presidential
moves. In short, the burden is now
upon Mr. Truman to prove by his
actions that the White House is
not anti-labor snd anti-Negro
Mere lip-service in support of la
bor's aspirations including a per
manent FEPC no longer will be
accepted.
Alabama Jim Crow
Ordered Enforced
MONTGOMERY. Ala— (NNPA)
Rigid enforcement of Alabama's
"Jim Crow’ law was ordered De
cember ? hv the Alabama Public
Service Commission.
Fifteen railroad companies
were instructed to post in each
car on passenger trains copies
of the Alabama laws, or regula
tions embodying the laws, which
call for segregation of white and
colored passengers.
• • •
THE ORDER, which becomes ef
fective Jan. 1. followed a series of
complaints charging the railroads
with non-segregation of white and
colored passengers. State law re
quires that white and colored pas
senners have equal but separate
accommodations
The railroads received an option
of posting a set of regulations
rather than copies of the state
liwg.
THE /
tacts
IN OUR NEWS
BY HORACE WHITE
The Background On Which La
bor Fights Today All of the
gain* that labor has made were
made by labor in a mean struggle
against the owners of industry.
This fact ii
true despite the
other fact that
many of the
powerful in in
ti ust r y were
once laborers
the m s e 1 v e *.
The fluidity in
Ame ri c an in
dustry for the
white worker
has been great
er In America
than in any
other country.
In other words
some of the in
dividuals who
Horace White
make the policies for industry gov
erning labor relations were once
workers in the struggling ranks
j of labor.
Who would know it once the
former laborer sits across the tabic
facing laborers'’
If we would take the time to
read just a little of the history
that has been made whenever
labor has tried to deal with man
agement in order to get a little
equity for the workers, there is
little doubt that we would stand
with the workers against a ruth
less enemy American indus
try. Even where some part of
American industry has become
humane, that humanity has been
strained through the blood of
workers.
• • •
TlfE UNINFORMED the senti
mental and the forgetful need to
read the record of labor with man
agement when labor has been ask
ing for justice at the conference
table, in the picket line and on the
verge of starvation. Management’s
contribution to that record is ini
quitous indeed If you think that
this is an irresponsible statement
re id Louis Adomir'.s hook "Dyna
mite" published in 1931: President
Woodrow Wilson appointed a com
mission to look into "The Causes
of Industrial Unrest in 1912" This
commission reported and that re
port substantiates the statement
that industry has strained what
advances it has made toward be
ing humane through the blood of
the workers. -For the tough mind
ed inquirer the record of Senator
Robert M. LaFollette's Senate Sub
committee on Civil Liberties, 1936-
1940. should be read.
The records made hv manage
ment have hern abnminablv dis
graceful. Therefore let us re
member that the repressive
measures taken hv management
are responsible for the actions
of men who must work In our
factories today.
• • •
WE MUST remember that labor
has been the victim of much spy
ing on the part of management
in years past It was estimated
by the LaFollette committee that
American industry spent about 80
million dollars in spying on w-ork.
ers and in industry’s devilish at
tempts to break up the unions
among the workers. General Mo
tow spent $994,853 from 1934 to
1936 in anti-labor activities Some
i of us have the hope that General
I Motors is willing to deal fairly
i today with labor. A hope based
j on sand to be sure if their past
performances are any indication
Management not only stands he-
I hind its pile* of money, its little
armies and detective agencies but
also American indir’ry stands be
hind some outworn ideas and
dogmas.
Management has held that it is
not respon-ible to the nation for
the welfare of i*s workers. For
American industry in many eases,
it is enough to allow' the worker
to man the machinery and pour
the s'eel American industry has
felt that the profit it makes has
I no relationship to the welfare of
I the worker and consequently to
the welfare of the nation
Manarement can he fairlv rep
resented by Henry Ford, when
Mr. Ford made the statement as
reported hv Time Magazine, on
March IT. 1941. "All men want Is
to he told what to do and get
paid for doing It.’’ Os course
avhen Mr. Ford made such a
statement he was not being an
American; he was "Joining'' the
Nazis.
• • •
THE INDUSTRIALISTS have
missed riehhrritely or just because
they thought it served them bet
ter. the idea that unions are more
than economic instrument'. Un
ions are instruments that seek to
have realized the promises of a
great and dynamic nation
All that has been said above
brings us now to a consideration
l of the General Motors strike to
ri a v The union wanted to bargain
i with the corporation The corpora-
I tion refused to bargain a* all
You will recall that Walter Retither
give the corporation a 24-hour
ultimatum. This ultimatum was
| issued because the corporation ac
tually tried to abolish the whole
idea of collective bargaining In
other words, the management tried
to make sure that labor would
i strike by trying to abolish the col
lective bargaining principle. You
will recall that Henry Frick did
the same thing, th it ic force a
i strike on the union Frick became
head of the Carnegie S’eel com
pany, as chairman of the board in
IR9O HV* wanted to break the
j union. Frick did not use the fact
1 that the company had great re
serves a.« the Genera! Motors ror
' poration |« now doing, hut rather
I Henry Frick harracaded h mself
| and company behind a little Tink
erton army winch vas to beat the
workers into - ibmis-unn. The un*
| ion "lost” the struggle and the
j idea of col’ec' ve bargaining was
gone from them until 1933
To abolish collective bargain
ing plots, lies, murder, hunger,
and open war between union and
management were the order of
the day In labor relations. Frick
by "breaking" the union earned
nothing for management hut
hatred, suspicion and 111-will.
General Motors in trying to plav
the role of Henrv Frick In a
little different setting k* earning
nnthinr for management hut dis
trust and suspicion on the nart
of labor and the general public.
The public responds to distrust
ands Tspicion on the part of the
powrrf i] hv asking government to
«*eo into the struggle Govern
ment has tried to «tcp into this
preecnl flrht ant ; f •’overnn'en*
sic red* in it* .ittrmpt to control
1 management and labor gad will be
, uti m j
fl1 m ' /
CONFUCIUS
Even Charlie Houston's resig
nation from the FEPC is hardly
enough to dramatize Its linger
ing death Meek hv week it gets
weaker with less money, less In
fluence and less strength while
we all sit by as quietly as at a
wake.
• • •
Home town boy makes good:
Walter White went down to At
lanta last week 1 I>ec 6> for noth
ing less than Walter White Day.
# • •
Lester Granger hit hard la**t
week at the FPHA for its restric
tive housing policies, and asked
the lawyers to get in the fight with
him.
• • •
For the first time, too, T.es’rr
will he writing a colyum It will
run in the new A nstoid.cn No >. -
tab'.o and edition, which 1" ori purty
good to us N'ev York nevspaper
folks fee! P-V will really nave to
step on it nov to catch ‘he com
petition.
• • •
R: 1! Mail’d '• the young vet car
tonrush is battling the no" tax n
h|* pix and out Hear tell the gi
has rye- toward a political future,
too. HVipe so
# • •
Christianity: Because the white
Ministerial assn of the rnuntrv
pressured him. the Negro min
ister of a Methodist church In
Havre de Grace. Md . withdrew
his church as the place for a
scheduled speech hv Mr’s. Eleanor
Roosevelt. The local NAACP
was official sponsor and was left
holding the hag.
• • •
Fortune mag will come down to
a half-buck per month shortly and
w 11 be published twice a month.
Domed if all three Luce publica
tion* didn’t do stories on Walter
Routher. each from a slightly dif
ferent angle.
• • •
Onlv cheerful note about this
nation’s foreign and domestic
state of affair* is that things are
so had they couldn't get much
worse . .
• • •
Rut one doesn’t stop f.ghting'
And don't you forget it!
DSC Medal Holder
Demands Federal
Anti - Lynch Action
JOHN GILMAN, of Chester. Pa .
awarded the Distinguished Service
Cross. Silver Star and Rronze
Star, says his medals won't mean
a thing to him if lvnrhers go un
punished in the United Spates He
told this in a letter to Atty. Gen
Tom Clnrk. demanding federal ac
tion against police authorities in
Florida and South Carolina who
have participated with impunity
in the lynching of two Negroes,
and the lynch-rrurder of a third,
in the past two months.
"The same crimes that Hitler.
Gnehhels. Goerlng. Ley. Hess
and all the other Nazi criminals
have enacted are now going on
right before your eyes." Gilmjm.
who was s staff sergeant, served
2TO days In the front line In the
39th Infantry, was wounded
twice, wrote to the attorney
general.
Gilman’s letter was made public
this week by the International La
bor Defense, to which he sent a
copy.
thr day for both management and
labor Further, if government does
get into the itruggle management
will be to blame. Management of
General Motors has been trying
to abolish collective bargaining !
Collective bargaining was won (
with the blood of workers and the’
workers are going to fight to keep
collective bargaining
The workers are not anti-so.ial
but General Motors h:>s acted in
an anti-social manne the
record and *cc for } ourself. »
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1946
SHADES OF 191&
BOQ£ titT
BY GEKTRUDE MARTIN
"FOCI'S’*
This is ’ho -t irv of a man who
finds hi* whole life changed when
he begin* weoo'g g’.i--es From
Law reiue Nr.r: ~:i, inoffen- e,
quiet neigho o he l eco'nes New
man, a Jew to ins I'-ivustinn Front
neighbors The make hi*
appearance *o Jo.vi-h ;• it he And*
himself out 'f a job and only gets
another after many refusals.
For a long timv although he is
being classed as a Jew, Newman
holds much the same attitude
toward Finkelstein. t e Jewish
storekeeper on the corner, a* do
his neighbors. Gradualy. however,
after several tnlte with Finkel
stein, Newman comes to realize
that what he d.s’.ikes about the
man is what he flunks he i« He .
has never looked upon the store
keeper a< an individual
His w 'o whose appearance is
il*i Jew -i urge- Nr a tr..m •<» leav e
the re thborhood cr to ally him
ee f w.: v the Chr -‘ an Frenter*
Although he .* a mild rran he is
determn ed *n -’-ok it out and
doe- m spur of the i sir,g tension
u o md him
Good Characterization
Tie author i' I think, more
su e-sf.i! vv th hi.- nr;nnnal cuar
a *er 'hr v.* : Gr-tr .de hi* w so.
Finkelstein. or the otheis, who
enter tie book The earlier pages
in which he delineates Newm-n’.-
C"Ha 'ter are more -mvrv-f 1 th m
the latter put of the book On
the w io!r. if < in rxrrllen* pre
se’-fation in novel form of t:e
Say Republicans
To Win Control
Os Country Soon
PHILADELPHIA <ANP> The
Republicans will gain control of
congress after next year's elec
tions, and the country then will
return to a sound economic and
social svstem, Herbert Brownell
Jr. chairman of the Republican
National Committee, predicted
here Friday night
He spoke at a meeting spon
sored hv the National Council of
Negro Republicans at the Pyra
mid club.
• • •
AMONG OTHER speakers were
Ernest T. Weir, chairman of the
board of the National Steel Corp,
and Walter D Fuller president of
the Curtis Publishing* Cos
"We will put the nation In con
trol of a reliable and efficient
group of patriotic men." Rrownell
said, "and rid the country of
cheap and prttv politics played in
Washington today."
He said that the Republican
party is opposed to intolerance and
i* the onlv agency in the United
States today to "maintain the
financial stability of the country,
p-omote full production and pro
vide an economic policy which
will make this nation the greatest
in the world"
Weir said it was imperative that
the Republican partv should re
turn to power and solve the great
est problems in its history He
said that administration in Wash
ington is "Communistic and in
imical to the interests of Negroes."
In urging support of .the Re
publicans. Fuller said "Look at
the record of the past 30 years and
that of the pa-1 ten year* and de
ride how you Con be anything but
a Republican "
Name Brown Editor
Os College Paper
ALBANY Ga. i ANP> At a
recent meeting of she Georgia
Teachers and Educational Associa
tion. Dr Aaron Brown, president
of Albany State college, was
elected to the position of editor of
the Herald, official organ of the
association
Dr Rrown succeeds Dr Horace
Mar.n Bond, who resigned his post
at Fort Ve'lev State college to he
ro re *he frst Negro president of
Lincoln university, his alma mater,
.n Pennsylvania.
p-iblem of anti-semitism. Mr.
M dor faces the crux of the prob
• rin when he has Finkelste.n ple*d
t i be regarded a* an individual.
Newman s thoughts about Gertrude
vhom he 'iter marries and whom
re at tir-t be.icvrs a Jew are typi
cal o' the usual attitude toward
r noritie
"As a Jewess she had seemed
dressed in cheap taste, too gaudily.
Rut m a gentile he found her mere
ly colorful in the same dress, a
woman who expressed her spirited
nature in her clothes. It wia as
though she now had a right to her
faults; as though her flair, her
stvle. her abruptness no longer
sprang from had breeding and an
Ignorant aping of genteel manners,
hut from a rebellious mind, an
angrv mind, a mind that dared to
overridr the smaller rules of be
havior"
■ For u<" ;s an hore«t hook sod
one thut p"> nt- t e way to a he’ter
unde: • riding of both Jewp and
Ne . : e
" Foeus" hv \rthur Miller: Rer
nal and Hitchcock; New York
City; 194. V. $2 50.
"WE HAVE TOMORROW"
\rna Rontomp* ha* vv -.‘ten bin
• p ; i.-.il sKC hr- if : r:, r vonr.g
Negroes in We Hive Tomorrow"
Most of them ire doing w hat was
never done by Negro \mencan*
h c' t; thev are w irk n; in fields
v> :i h for a long time seemed
ed 1 1 ne nher< of the!” race,"
M Rontemps wr *o- in the Fore
vo and The large majority of them
are in their twenties or early th:r
--t ir ■
Tie twelve are F Simms Camp
bell. the cartoonist; Mildred F.
R'.ount. hat designer: Horace R.
Cayton. direr’or of Chicago’* Fark
v ly Community Center; Beatrice
Johnson Trammell, public health
nurse: Dean D xon orchestra con
d.ictor; Sylvestre C Walking, hook
buyer for a Chicago publishing
ff'm: Doug’as Watson, airplane de
signer. Fmmett M May, ensign in
the Merchant Marine: Hhzel Scott,
pi <r.«?; Algernon P Henry, senior
teache- a* the N Y Radio and
Maritime Center: James I.u Valle,
chemist in the Kodak Research
1 .aboratorie*; and Benjamin O.
Dav « Jr. commander of the Ne
gro fliers at Godman Field, Ken
tucky.
Young people especially will en
joy thi* attractive book Photo
graphs of the twelve are by Mari
an Palfi Mr Ronterrp* has done
an intrne**ing job of presenting
t velve young men and women who
have made names for themselves
in new field.*
We Have Tomorrow hv Ami
RnnUmp*: Houghton Mifflin Cos.;
Bolton: 1945; S2OO.
Philip Randolph
Opens YM Forums
A Philip Randolph will open the
St. Antoine YMC A, lecture
Series Sunday. January 6. 1948. at
4 pm. Mr. Randolph is a w ell
known lecturer traveler and Is in
ternational president of "Sleeping
Car Porter* " He was instrumental
In getting the President s Fair Em
ployment Practice Committee" or
ganized and functioning. Mr. Ran
dolph is national director of the
Citizen's Committee urging a law
for a permanent Fair Employment
Practice Committee His subject
will he "The Economic Crisis Fac
ing Black America."
• • •
Tire Y' FORUM SERIES for
1946 will bring a larger variety of
speakers and programs than here
tofore Dr James F Shepherd,
president of the North Carolina
College for Negroes, Durham. N C.
and Dr J M Ellison, president of
Virc nit Union university, Rich
mond. Va . are scheduled to speak
in February and March. The El*
liottorian Business Women’s club
w ill present Dr Herman G Canady
of West Virginia State college on
February 10 Dr Canady is a noted
p«vchnlogist and will speak on tho
suhirct "A Psychologist l/ioks At
Race" Many other feature» ere in
1 the making.