Arizona sun. [volume], May 31, 1946, Page Page TWo, Image 2

About Arizona sun. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1942-196?

Image provided by: Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ

                
Page TWo
ARIZONA SUN
Published Every Friday by the
ARIZONA SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY
1337 E. Monroe St. Phone 3-3682
Subscription Rotes 5c per copy 52.00 per year
6 months 51.25
3 months $-75
Two cents to mall overseas
All inquiries concerning advertising rates, and subscription should
be secured at the above address.
Doc F. Benson Publisher and Editor
MEMORIAL DAY
Once a year it is the custom to set aside one day as
Memorial Day.
This was originally to keep the memory of those
who had died in war.
The day has expanded its purpose, however, and has
come to include those who have died from any cause.
It is of human nature to die.
No man can escape the penalty of the common lot;
as Victor Hugo says in his tremendous was, “Nous som
mes tous condemnes.” We are all under sentence of
death and awaiting the excutioner.
That nation has advanced far in civilization that re
spects the works and achievements of its ancestors. The
progress of any people may be known by the character
of its tombs. We are all living upon dead men’s labors.
The discovery of the sewing machine, the electric tele
graph and other wonders is due to men now dead.
We are standing upon the shoulders of preceding
generations.
Confucius said that the beginning of knowledge is
to acquaint one’s self with what has gone before. A lit
tle study of history would help many a man who thinks
he has discovered some new truth.
It would do him no harm and his fellows less, to
know that a thousand years before he was bom others
had enunciated his idea and tried to carry it out.
The past is a great sea of wisdom from which we
may all draw water. Os course we do not have to go as
far as the Chinese, and set up ancestor worship, but it is
easy to fall into the equal <rror of despising our prede
cessors.
To those who have gone before us it is but right
that we should give their due. Their wisdom and their
experience may be of benefit to us. But we should live
for the future.
Americans are accused of over valuing their progeny
and neglecting their ancestors. There is such a thing as
living for those who are to come, at the same time not
neglecting those who have preceded us.
Therefore the tulip and the rose may well blush to
day over the dead, while out of their mould comes the
lily and the hyacinth for those who are still to come.
TOWN-TALK
Famous BAR-B-Q
Formerly Hodges
We Serve
Beef, Mutton, Lamb
and Ham •
Open from 8 a.m. to Midnight
ROY LUCAS, Prop.
1202 East Washington
BEE’S BEAUTY SHOPPE
“Beauty At Its Best”
SPECIAL HOT OIL TREATMENTS EXPERT STYLING
Operators:
BEATRICE BROWN LUDEA GOOCH
1610 East Madison Phone 3-3578
TRIPLE ETT CAFE
1303 EAST JEFFERSON STREET
■ Its the BEST In Town
Open Daily from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
MRS. HENRIETTA WALKER, Prop.
CHURCHES ~
FIRST COLORED BAPTIST CHURCH
Fifth Street and Jefferson
Invites you to worship Sundays 11:00 a.m. and 8:30 p">
Sunday School 9:30 ajn. B.T.U. 6:30 p-m.
Rev. L. Butler Nelson, Minister. James L. Davis, Clerk.
BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH
14 th and East Adams Streets
9:30 a.m. Sunday School—ll a.m. Morning Worship
7:30 p.m. Evening Worship
DR. JOSHUA R. MINER, Pastor
REV. J. W. WILLIAMS, Assistant Pastor
Dunbar Club Ends
Another Year
The Dunbar Social and Literary
Society of Arizona State College
at Tempe completed another suc
cessful year, (Friday, May 24.
As returning veterans to the
college, enrolled, the society mem
bership rose to a pre-war peak of
26.
Activities of the club were as fol
lows: Donations of Negro books
and periodicals to the Matthews
Library; purchase of a bond for
the proposed student Unions build
ing, donation to the Danfaret
Meditation Chapel; presentation of
the annual Dunbar award which
is presented to the senior Dunbar
San Francisco For OPA
I
Led by AFL and CIO union members, 10,000 persons march along San Francisco’s Market St. protesting
against legislation aimed at crippling OPA. Similar demonstrations and letters to Congress may prevent
emasculation of the agency. (Federated Pictures)
The "Sun’s” Poem
For the Week
SALESMANSHIP
To sell should be your constant
aim—
Sell service, goods and self;
As otherwise you’ll ne’er progress
But land high on the shelf.
First sell yourself on your own
worth,
Act so you’ll never doubt
You’ll ever stand for \\}iat is right
And justice never flout.
To sell yourself be kind and true —
Be thoughtful, brief and fair;
Be careful that your linen’s clean
And neat the clothes you wear.
Remember that sincerity
Will bring more sales to you,
Than should you shade the price
somewhat
Or little favors do.
Complaints of every kind taboo;
Ne’er say you’re feeling bad
For folks are more inclined to buy
When everybody’s glad.
Prove friendly and be natural
And vulgar stories ban;
And don’t presume you own old
trade
Nor competition pan.
Don’t overstock your customers
Due to your selfish greed;
But sell to each and all of them
Just what you think they need.
Try hard to be just like the man
From whom you’d gladly buy;
And you will sell and sell and sell
As months and years speed by.
—By Alonzo Newton Benn
member with the highest accumu
lative index —the 1946 winner, Del
la Smith; and the annual Fall
dance.
Highlighting the years’ activities
was the participation of six of the
society’s memberswn the college’s
commencement exercises. Parti
cipants were: Irma Reese War
ren, Elementary Curriculumn;
Della M. Smith, Social Service;
Merdine Moton, Kindergarten Pri
mary Curriculum; Rosa Johnson
Jordan, Home Economics and Wil
liam Johnson, Elementary Curri
culum and Zenobia Cannon, Home
Economics.
Officers for the year were:
Rosemary Le Forbes, president;
Helen Chappelle, secretary; Rose
mary Phillips, treasurer; Jewel
Jordan, student council representa
tive and Merdine Moton, William
Johnson, Margaret Warren, Goldie
JoFar and Dorothy Ferguson.
Labor Backs OPA
Phoenix, May 30—(ALJ)—Labor
organizations of Arizona are re
questing the continuance of price
control on meat for the simple sea
son that removal of controls at this
time would create undue hardship
on the average wage earner.
Office of Price Administration
records in Phoenix show that dur
ing 1945 more than 84,000,000
pounds of meat were sold in the
Btdt6*
The American Meat Institute,
which is recommending the remov
al of price control, admits there
would be an increase of 20 per cent
in meat prices. OPA officials doubt
if the price hike would be held as
low as 20 per cent.
If the average price of meat in
creased 10 cents per pound, the
OPA explains, the same amount of
meat in 1946, would cost the con
sumers more than $8,400,000 in ex
cess of 1945 prices.
This increase would only be the
beginning. The removal of price
ceilings in meat would encourage
feeding cattle to heavier weights.
This would draw more and more
of our limited feed supply from
dairy and poultry industries and
the industries making products
from grain. This scramble for grain
would increase the price pressures
on dairy products and such grain
products as bread and breakfast
foods which make up another 13
per cent of the average family liv
ing costs and price increases in
these products would be inevitable.
Watch For The
Emancipation Special Edition
of the SUN, On June 19
ARIZONA SUN
Political Council
(Continued from Page L)
squares.” Many sophomeric sim
pletons orate upon academic politi
cal theories. They may have mas
tered the principles of “Civil Gov
ernment.” They may speak wisely
and bombastically about “democ
racy,” but they could not, for the
life of themselves, tell what Con
gressional District they live in, nor
could they inform anyone as to the
number of votes in their block or
anything accurate about the regis
tration and the forces of influ
ence and control within their vot
ing precincts. They do not under
stand what makes the voting ma
chine tick.
Theodore Roosevelt declared
wisely, when running for the Gov
ernorship of New York, “The good
people of this commonwealth do
not take an active part in poli
tics.” Among colored citizens, we
have noted that most of the edu
cated and informed have deemed
politics a dirty business, and have
haughtily refrained from active
participation. But they have been
confounded when confronted with
infringement upon their sacred
preserves, when they found dens
and dives near their homes and
they learned that they had to deal
with the politician, when their
taxes mounted, and they sought a
cut, they discovered “their duly
elected representatives.” High
brows have been compelled to
deal with “low brows,” peanut pol
iticians, when in need of small fa
vors for themselves. They have
witnessed the power in politics,
but, they, by their neglect, have
secured little part of it. It is an
admitted fact that in the complex
problem of living in this land, that
you must know somebody. It is a
maxim in American life, that "it is
not what you know, but whom you
know.” Translated into simple
understanding, you rqust have en
tree to some politician with power.
There is power in politics. We
have been on the scene when col
ored ward leaders have warned
white judges that they would be
defeated if they did not “vote
straight.” We have witnessed Con
gressmen harried and bulldozed by
under-cover vice lords, who con
trolled several thousand votes. We
have sat in amazement and seen
the colored “king makers” in ac
tion. Without them, no successful
slate of candidates could be elect
ed. Thousands of colored Ameri
cans have observed power politics
in action within their own baili
wicks.
Now then, as a new day dawns
upon the political horizon, what is
the new generation going to do?
Obviously, there lies ahead, the
chance for new blood to get wise
and gather strength and necessary
dynamics. Jobs are to be gained
by skillful manipulation of voting
minorities. American politics have
long been operated by the spoils
and patronage system. To the vic
tors go the jobs. Here a challenge
is hurled to the colored American
youth. Will the same old systems
of operation be tolerated? Are the
uninformed and unlettered to be
forever permitted to marshal and
count the votes? Who is to sally
forth and destroy these wicked
and archaic methods?
Those who will soon leave the
colleges and high schools will be
faced with entrenched interests,
but vulnerable and highly respon
sive to strong and intelligent pres
sure. There never was a fuller
opportunity for young Americans
of color to acquire power and in
fluence in shaping the affairs of
the country and to gain more free
dom and liberty for their people.”
Vets Prefer School
To Federal Loans
Washington, May 30—(FP)—
One fourth of the veterans taking
advantage of the government edu
cational and training laws are par
ticipating in on-the-job-training
programs, the Veterans Adminis
tration announced May 23.
At the end of April, 170,000 were
taking job training, about one sixth
of whom were disabled men. A
half million were in college or
school. Only one veteran out of
every 100 has already used his loan
privilege to get a loan for a home,
farm or business, the VA said.
Polltax Maneuvers
Stall FEPC Debate
Washington, May 30 —(FP)—
House polltaxers showed again May
22 that they were afraid of Calen
dar Wednesday, under which com
mittee-approved bills can be
brought to the floor for discussion
and vote. As in the previous week,
fair employment practices legisla
tio nwas the issue, with FEPC ene
mies working desperately to pre
vent its consideration.
This time they used a series of
six quorum! calls, each taking 20
SEE G. A. TAYLOR and A. SANDERS FOR COMPLETE
Automotive Service
GAS, OIL and LUBRICATION
1245 East Washington St. Phone 4-5929
RE-OPENED FOR BUSINESS
BLUE EVENING QRILL
(Under New Management)
We Specialize in FRIED CHICKEN
Regular Meals, Best Chili On Buckeye Road
Open from 5 a.m. to 12 Midnight
1305 BUCKEYE ROAD MRS. ALICE ALLEN, Prop.
v WASHING and POLISHING CARS REASONABLE
MOTOR TUNE-UP
DOUGLAS STATION
QUINN GRAY and WILLIAM GILLOM
PHONE 3-4969
14th St. and Washington Phoenix, Ariz.
MAE'S COCKTAIL
The Valley’s Swankiest Colored Rendezvous
INVITES YOU TO DRINK
TO THE MUSIC OF
BETTY TREADVILLE
The Girl with a Thousand Songs
■.» — m —
A Selection of High Class Whiskeys, Wines and Beers
1645 East Jackson Street
SUBSCRIBE--
TO THE ARIZONA SUN
It Will Be Delivered To Your Door Every Week
For Only
1 Yr. $2.00 - 6 Mo. $1.25 • 3 Mo. $.75
Out This Out and MaH To
ARIZONA SUN PUBLISHING CO.
1387 E. Monroe St Phone: 3-3682
Name
Address
I‘Year 6 Months 3 Months
AGENTS WANTED Phoenix, Arizona,
Friday, May 31, 1946
Rents Jump 65 Pet.
In Wisconsin City
Sheboygan, Wis., May 30—(FP)
This city is no rent control area
and, to no one’s particular surprise
rents have gone up from 6 per cent
to 66 per cent, with some few cases
of 100 per cent increases reported
as well.
This data is the result of a sur
vey made by the Chamber of Com
merce and a mayor’s committee
which had labor representation. It
was confirmed in a survey by the
OPA in the Milwaukee district.
A request for rent ceilings, which
has been pigeonholed in Washing
ton for months, should shortly get
action, thanks to the surveys.
minutes, to head off the issue while
congressmen favoring the legisla
tion tride to outsit the opposition
tactics.
> ■' 1
ADA WALKER
( NOTARY PUBLIC )
Ph: 3-4460 1122 E. Jefferson
in
4» —■—..—>.—..—■* —.. ■■■—«■—4
Open For Business
The
Chicken House
We Boast of the
Best Fried Chicken
In the Valley
Chicken In the Basket Only
SOUTH 16th ST.
and San Francisco Canal
3 Blocks North of Broadway
Proprietors:
J. T. WHEELER
and
T. B. MORRISON, Mgr.
. L. . ■ *