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COLORED RACES
MUST HAVE UNITY
NASHVILLE, Fab. 7. (ANP)
—An educator from Calcutta, In
dia, Dr. Cedric Dover, told mem
bers of the local NNAACP branch
last week that colored races all
over the world must have unity.
Speaking at an NAACP install
ment on the topic, "Race Rela
tions in England, Indes and Amer
ica," he said American Negroes
have been "pushed" into the lead
ership in fighting racial'discrimi
nation.
He advised Negroes not to imi
tate white culture to the debase
ment of their own culture. He also
said colored should patronize their
own businesses and institutions
and patronize only white people
IT HAPPENED
By Gladys P. Graham
NEW YORK, Feb. 7. (ANP)—
An effort by over zealous citizens
to have members of the Com
munist party barred from after
hours used of publi schools as a
meeting ground was ruled out here
by Supreme Court Justice Charles
W. Froessel. The judge declared
that under the present laws of
the state of New York, Commun
ists may legally function as a po
litilacl party or entity.
The voice of stage-cinema star
Lena Home was paped in from
Boston as a representative of New
York along with other stage ce
lebrities who participated along
with Mayor William O'Dwyer on a
nation wide hook-up publicizing
the coming golden anniversary of
the joining of the five boroughs
into Great City of New York in
1898.
A specific ban on publications
that incite race hatred failed to
pass a vote by the members of the
United Nations subcommission on
Freedom of Information here in
a hotly debated meeting at Lake
Success.
Jacob M. Lomakin, former
journalist of Soviet Russia, led the
move against the idea of permit
ing publications in circulation
that 'opened the door" to racial
prejudice or hatred. His meas
ure, however, was lost in a tie
who are proven to be their friends.
A guest lecturer at Fisk univer
sity, Dr. Dover is an anthropolo
gist. He graduated from St. Xav
ier's and St. Joseph's colleges in
Calcutta and Edinburgh univer
sity, Scotland.
Officers installed at the meet
ing were the Rev. Charles L. Kic
kens, president M. D. Mayberry,
vice president Annabel Nollez,
secretary M. W. Day, executive
committee chairman Carrie R.
Hull, treasurer, and Bey. E. B.
Looper, chaplain.
Other speakers included Z.
Alexander Looby, Nashville attor
ney, and M. G. Ferguson, outgo
ing president.
IN NEW YORK
By GLADYS! P. GRAHAM
vote of 5 to 5. It was that press
representatives on hand from
Canada, China, and the Nether
lands supported the commsion of
a racial clause.
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The race is not goven to the
strong but to him who holds out to
the end is apparently the theme
song of the growing list of mayors
(sepia) who plan to touch the
tree of hope and run Harlem.
Hats in the ring include those of
Bill Robinson, Madeline McCoy,
Joe J. Wells, Esther Parham, Sher
man Hibbitt, Pete Robertson, Ger
trude Thomas and Dr. James Lee.
Perhaps the first affair for a
Harlemite by the swank Women's
City club at quarters in the New
Weston hotel was that for Mrs.
Ruth Logan Roberts, Alpha Kap
pa Alpha soror and the recent
Dewey appointee to the state de
partment of social welfare. Mrs.
Sadye Williams, president of the
Club Florence Kelly, Mary L. Gib
bons, Ida Pickens and Atty. Ruth
whitehead Whaley were among the
many guests this writer was able
to identify.
Chorus Refuses to Sing
In Freedom Tlrain
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 7. (A
NP)—Charging the Municipal au
ditorium with "jim crow" prac
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VOL. VI.—NO. 6 DAYTON OHIO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1948 PRICE, FOUR CENTS
Daisy Lampkin On
Way to New York
NEW YORK, Feb. 7. (ANP)—
Daisy E. Lampkins, chairman of
the NAACPs 1948 membership
drive, will arrived in New York
February 6 to discuss plans for
the campaign. Acceptances have
been pouring into the national
office from persons who have
agreed to serve on Mrs. Lampkin's
national membership committee:
Among those invited to serve on
this committee, which wil support
Mrs. Lampkin's efforts in every
part of the nation, are Emory O.
Jackson, Birmingham, Ala. Atty.
Harold W. Flowers, Pine Bluff,
Ar. Dr. Buell G. Gallagher, Ber
keley, Sal. Atty. Thomas L. Grif
fith, Los Angeles George L. P.
Weaver, Washington, D. C. Clar
ence A. Bacote, Atlanta Earl B.
Dickerson, Chicago Oscar C.
Brown, Chicago Willard B. Ran
som, Indianapolis James Herdon,
Atlanta W. W. Laws, Savannah,
Ga. Ike Smalls, Des Moines
Frank M. Stanley, Louisville A.
P. Tureaud, New Orleans Carl
Murphy, Baltimore Dr. S. Ralph
Harlow, Northampton, Mass. Dr.
James J. McClendon, Detroit
Percy W. Greene, Jackson, Miss.
Carl R. Johnson, Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. U. S. Wiggins, N. J. Hobart
L. LaGrone, Albuquerque, N. M.
Eleanor Roosevelt, New York T.
V. Mangum, Statesville, N. C. Dr.
N. K. Christopher, Cleveland Ada
Lois Siquel, Oklahoma City Ira
F. Lewis, Pittburgh Father T. E.
Little, Bristol, R. L. Rev. J. M.
Hinton, Columbia, S. C. tty. Z.
Alexander Looby, Nashville, Tenn.
Juanita E. Craft, Dallas, Texas
Dr. J. M. Tinsley, Richmond, Va.
Millie Bown, Seattle, Wash. Atty.
T. G. Nutter, Charleston, W. Va.
and Atty. James W, Dorsey, Mil
waukee.
As I See It
By A. D. Braithwaite
Every year the second week in
February is designed Negro His
tory week. The traditional celebra
tion was initiated by the Associa
tion for the Study of Negro Life
and history founded and directed
by the great Negro historian, Car
ter G. Woodson. Its purpose is to
stimulate inquiry into the achieve
ments of the Negro people not
only in the United States, uin
worlld history. The celebration has
attained such large proportions
How Can Employees Be Encour
aged to Do Better Work?
The questions foremost in this
iiscussion are: How can employes
be encouraged to do better work?
How can the retailer get them to
improve their salesmanship? How
can they be made to understand
that the owner's problems ai*e also
their problems? There is but one
answer TRAINING! Retailers
frequently have to tell their help
ers how to do a particular job.
This is especially true with new
employes. These workers have to
be "robken-in." "Breaking-in is
only one kind of training. "Call
ing down" an experienced worker
is another "training" method used
by some retailers, but this is a
negative way of training him.
When the retailer says, "Haven't
I told you not to do that?" or
"Don't you know you shouldn't do
that?" he is telling the employe
how not to do a thing. That is a
negative way of telling hiw how
to do it. If the retailer will in
sirduct the employe instead of
"calling him down" he will prob
ably find little occasion for later
that national radio programs are
dedicated to it, it has found its
way to Latin American countries,
the West Indies and parts of Afri
ca and Europe.
A special program on a national
hook up is scheduled during the
week, but recause of the reluct
ance of local stations to present
such programs to people in this
area, and because Negroes have
not prevailed upon these stations
to carry it, Daytonians will not
benefit from it. The must suffer
the dulling effects of some less
inspiring, dull, winchellian pap.
Even tho our lack of impor
tunies, our almost inveterate las
situde will deprive us of hearing
and witnessing celebrations of Ne
gro History week, we can cer
tainly devote a few hours, at least,
during the week, to familiarizing
ourselves with our own history.
We shall only be helping our
selves. By knowing the past we
can more successfully conquer the
problems of the future. Dayton
ians for the most part recognize
Paul Laurence Dunbar, but how
many are really at home with his
poetry? And how many are fami
liar with other great Negroes who
because they championed unpopu
lar causes have been ignored by
historians more concerned with
reprimands.
Sucessful merchants begin to
train their men from the moment
they are hired. Every time a mer
chant tells an employe how to do
a task, every time he tells him
why something is done, he is train
ing him. As the merchant watches
the worker he decides whether or
not he needs more training. In
time the employe may become as
efficient as the mployer.
A well rounded training course
includes the following chief fac
tors: 1. His place and duties with
in the organization. 2. How to deal
with people in a pleasant way. 8.
How to do routine work of Hie
store. 4. The policies of the store.
5. The qualities and characteris
tics of theg oods stocked by the
store. 6. The correct handling of
transactions and the making of
proper records.
Every store worker schould
know moi*e or less about each of
these things, depending upon his
individual job. In addition, each
worker should know the most ef
ficient way to get the job done.
perpetuating existing institutions,
decadent tho they may be, than
with seeking objective truth?
How many Daytonians have
heard of Monroe Trotter, the
famed Bostonian who dared, mili
tantly, to oppose the compromis
ing, meek program of B. T. Wash
ington which won so many white
adherents? How many have heard
of Osceola, Cato, Nat Turner, of
the thousands of Negroes who en
dured unbelieveabl dangers to win
freedom thru the underground
railroad? Only thru studying the
stories of these great fighters can
we understand the enormity of
the Great Slander in American his
tory books, namely, that Negroes
were a docile, contented, happy
go-lucky people. Like all oppdessed
people, Negroes have always con
tributed blood, sweat and tears,
and they will continue to do so
in the struggle for equality.
But these and more things can
not be understood without a read
ing knowledge of the facts of Ne
gro history. We call on all Day
tonians to repsond to Mr. Wood
son's appeal to make Negro his
tory week the most successful
yet, and to use it as a starting
point for a morep enetrating re
search into our own history in
the future weeks to come.