MISCELLANY PRINTED MATTER [*General, 1950-53 [left page:] ANTIOCH NOTES Warped to Fit Russia . . . Communism . . . the Soviet Union-- these are words that, for the most part, threaten us and invite distrust. We see the words in newspapers and hear them on the radio, and we think, What now? What have they done now to threaten the free world? What have they distorted and fabri- cated? We see only a blanket of deceit and con- fusion which hides the fact that Russia is made up of individuals--big and little people, like we are, with similar qualities of aggressiveness, insecurity, panic, fear, and perhaps even pit, compassion, and hope for a better way of life. VOLUME 31 - - - DECEMBER 1, 1953 - - - NUMBER 4 [right page:] The Delta Bond Published Five Times a Year by Beta Sigma Chapter Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Vol. III, No. 3, Wash., D. C. February 14, 1950 Twenty Cents [left column:] 37TH BIRTHDAY BANQUET HELD AT CLUB BALI Seventy sorors from the joint chapters of Alpha, Beta Iota, and Beta Sigma celebrated the 37th Anniversary of the founding of Delta Sigma Theta with a banquet at Club Bali, January 13, at 8:00 p. m. The program: Toastmistress--Gloria Edmunds, President of Joint Chapter Happy Birthday Delta Fellowship Singing Greetings from Chapters Alpha--Jacqueline Bowie Beta Iota--Mary D. Melbourne Beta Sigma--Dorothy S. Proctor Sweetheart Song: Selected Groups from Alpha and Beta Iota Greetings from Founders, Honorary Members, and Guests: Mary Church Terrell, Vashti Murphy, Jimmie Middleton, Muriel Johnson. The Banquet Committee: Dorothy Proctor, Beta Sigma, Chairman Ruth Alsop, Beta Iota Louise Anderson, Beta Sigma Jacquoline Bowie, Alpha Eeris Harper, Alpha Lillian Hughes, Beta Iota Marjorie Henry, Alpha Mary Mattingly, Beta Iota Emma Mitchell, Beta Sigma EPSILON SIGMA CHAPTER presents MARION ANDERSON Polytechnic Auditorium North & Guilford Avenues Baltimore, Maryland MARCH 26, 1950--6:00 P.M. For Tickets Contact Mrs. Ellen Fisher 1624 E. Biddle Street [right column:] JOINT CHAPTER OBSERVERS FOUNDERS' WEEK WITH TALENT NIGHT An appreciative audience filled Rankin Memorial Chapel, Howard University, January 14, at 8:30 p. m. when Joint Chapter presented a program, "Glimpse of Delta," in observation of Founders' Week. Dorothy Shaed Proctor, acting as mistress of ceremonies, presented talented sorors from Alpha, Beta Iota and Beta Sigma. The program follows. Original Poems....Dorothy Proctor, Beta Sigma Picno Solo..............Delores Collins, Beta Sigma Monologue.............Shirley Nelson, Alpha Modern Dance........Alpha Chapter Dance Group Vocal Solo...................Anita Butler, Beta Iota Reading..................Gladys Walker, Alpha Vocal Solo................Gertude Link, Alpha Original Poems..Dorothy Williston, Beta Sigma Modern Dance....Jacqueline Bowie, Alpha Remarks.......Mary Church Terrell, Honorary Member Joint Chapter Committee, with Gloria Edmunds as chairman, in- cludes: Louise Anderson, Jacque- line Bowie, Graciella Armstrong, Marjorie Henry, Doris Hilliard, Theresa Johnson, Emma Mitchell, Dorothy Proctor, Beverly Sham- well, Crata Vaughn, and Jean Woody. WATCH THE DATE for BETA SIGMA'S Civic Activity Concert BABY CONTEST Sunday - at - the - Delta - House 2 THE DELTA BOND EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief H. Jeanne Tanner Editorial Staff-- Isadore W. Miles Esther Popel Shaw Elaine H. Snowden Myrtle E. Thorne Business Manager Jennie B. Shief Mailing Address-- 1228 Fairmont Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. FROM A MATURE MIND-- . . . The corruption of the best is the worst of corruptions. It is the college president who earnestly justifies the quota system who is inwardly corrupt, because, enlisted in the age-long struggle for human dignity, he rationalizes himself out of the struggle when it goes counter to the local mores and the prejudices of his board. It is the minister of the church who timidly suggests that Negroes go elsewhere who is inwardly corrupt, because he denies the Master he asks people to serve. It is the respectable peopl who would not dream orf letting a Negro enter by the front door who are inwardly corrupt because they are willing to insult without even knowing they insult What prejudice does to the prejudiced is, in subtler or in grosser ways, to work this inner corruption. This is the image we need to build of the people who claim white supremacy and Christian superiority. They are intellectually and morally sick people; what is worst, they are sick people who try to make their own sickness the measure of their society's health. "The Gentle People of Prejudice," H. A. Overstreet, January 21 issue-- Saturday Review of Literature TOWARD A CULTIVATED MIND What is a cultivated mind? It is one that has passed through a great many apprenticeships of thought and is able to look at things from a great many points of view. Culture is proportionate to the number of categories which an intellect has at its disposal. The more possible ways of being that one has in one's self, the more modes and molds one has acquired, the more forms, methods, and resources, the more cultivated one is. The cultivated mind understands a great many things, but he is not necessarily inventive, ingenious, or clever. He is merely practiced, receptive, open-minded. His original gifts may have been mediocre, but he has turned them to account by effort. The Thespian Study Club is by this time a well-established part of the dramatic scene in Washington. This year's production will be "The Royal Family" at Armstrong High School, February 24 and 25 at 8:30 p. m. Delta-Director is Isadore Miles. Another Delta, Elaine Dean, turns in a good comedy role. If you forgot your book for the Book Shower, how about seeing Marion Wright anyway before you leave the meeting tonight? It's a worthwhile project--this Library Committee. And before we forget, we'd like to recommend a thin volume called The Promise by Mildred Cram. It's a novel of a very different sort. We got a copy at Kann's. Don't miss it. THE DELTA BOND 3 CHAPTER CHATTER By Esther Popel Shaw February 14th gives us pause And here's the "why" and the "because"-- The love-bug flitting through the air Has left his virus everywhere, While Cupid, in a mighty dither, Skitters yon and skitters hither, As he aims his fatal darts At the unsuspecting hearts Of romantic, gay "un-weds"-- While beneath expectant beds Spinsters (also widows)--peak, Playing hopeful hide-and-seek, With dream Romeos not there! (Have a care, gals, have a care!) How many of you, my "dear readers," saw the editorial "Explaining Widows" in a recent issue of the Sunday Washington Post? It has in it much to feed one's thoughts--such as these "nuggets of wisdom": (1) Widows don't rush to the altar with zeal of widowers. Result--Our country has a huge widow surplus. (2) They don't remarry so generally is a matter not of can't but won't! (3) A lot more present widowers would be remarried if more widows were willing! (This is all serious Census Bureau talk, ladies). (4) Much of the nation's private wealth is in the hands of widows. Wherefore --get some of the wealth away from them and they might become more susceptible to romance. (Wonder where my wealth is?) Two members of Beta Sigma have name changes to record-- and to them go our most hearty felicitations. Our Soror-President Dorothy Shaed Williams, is now Mrs. Proctor. She acquired her new husband during the Christmas holidays! And during the holidays more "cupid-news" leaked out when Soror Mary Nightengale had the extra name of Carter signed to her Christmas cards. We hear she has been Mrs. Carter since early autumn! Soror Elsie Austin stays in the news. On Sunday, January 15, she presided over a program at the Bahai Center of D. C., commemorating the Bahais' World Religion Day observed in the Washington community and all over the world. At last she has received the honors due her and belied the fact that "a prophet is without honor in his (her) country." Juanita, we mean--our own Soror Juanita Howard Thomas, who was the honoree at a Coffee Hour and reception given for her by the Howard University Women's Club on January 29 on the University Campus. Feted as Alumni Trustee of the University, our noted Soror deserved every tribute paid her by college women, sorority, church and civic groups whom she has served diligently and without thought of self for years and years and years! And so we salute her with pride and with congratulations, and send her spiritual orchids, with our thanks, for all she has been and all she has done in and for the city of her birth! Maybe my "better self" should have ruled out this final item, but it didn't. And so in the romantic spirit of the season I quote this note--intercepted in transit in one of my French classes. The young Romeo's romantic impulses just couldn't be encouraged--on school time. Fresh from the deep South he wrote--as he spoke-- with fine disregard for the niceties of grammar, etc.-- "I am not shore, but i thaink, well I kinder, oh my, well I thaink, i luv you. do you feel anyway like that about me. ANSER." Ah, me--ain't Love GRAND!! 4 THE DELTA BOND STUFF and SUCH By Jaytee February is cold twilight and wan silences. It's a heavy coat and a wool scarf under the chin. February is galoshes and umbrellas and sniffles. It's raw and rainy and rough. It's being so worn down by winter that it makes us ache a little for April. But thinking about the new fabric colors for spring does help to make this month a little brighter. They read like a Schrafft's menu: coral shrimp, lobster bisque, jelly pink, duck blue, julep green, and crushed tomato! ASIDES TO: Vashti Murphy, Mary Church Terrell, and Annette Eaton: Thanks for your BOND subscriptions. Gloria Edmunds--Your enthusiasm is refreshing. And the Talent Night was unusually good. How about a repeat performance in the near future? Thelma Johnson, Revella Clay, and Angelyn McLilly--Thanks for accepting the responsibility of working out with me the Souvenir Program for the National Convention. When I hear from Grand Chapter, listen for a phone call. Doris Hundley, Louise Anderson, Constance Barber, Alice Albright, and Emma Mitchell-- Thanks for "hostess-ing" at the January meeting. Gladys Walker, Alpha--Would you send us the title and author's name of the selection you read so well? We were proud to be Delta January 14. (Not that we're at all prejudiced in Delta's favor!) The program was just good and exhibited unusual talent from Alpha, Beta Iota, and Beta Sigma. We particularly like Jacqueline Bowie's dance; maybe on accounta' it was to a favorite of ours, "Perfume Set to Music," and Gertrude Link's vocal number; maybe on accounta' we're just fond of "I've Got You Under My Skin." Anyway, these gals are going places in a few years. Early last year we told you about "Travel Time" magazine, which was then in its initial stages of publication. Just before renewing our subscription this year, we found that not only is there an in- crease in price but that the format is more varied and additional advantages are offered to subscribers. With a year's subscription, come an accident insurance policy, discounts at leading hotels and shops throughout the country, free travel information and maps, and a lending library of travel films at no cost. TRAVEL And while we're talking about reading material, the February copy of "Ebony" carries an article, "The Watsons of Willimantic," which contains a bit of Delta. Although we think "Ebony" has lost the initial purposefulness which could have made it a creditable magazine, we do glance at it occasionally, so we thought we'd mention this issue to you. Will you remember to select peach ice as your spring shade? Or maybe you'll prefer startled carrot. For Now . . . The Delta Bond Published Five Times a Year by Beta Sigma Chapter Delta Sigm Theta Sorority Vol. III, No. 4, Wash., D. C. April 11, 1950 Twenty Cents BETA SIGMA TO PRESENT CAROLYN HILL STEWART Beta Sigma Chapter will present Carolyn Hill Stewart, dramatic actress, in "Repertoire" at Armstrong High School, April 22 at 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Stewart, a graduate of West Virginia State College, has served as Acting Director of the West Virginia Players and has appeared in numerous plays in this section of the country. In 1946 she was seen in the New York production of "Jeb." Since 1947 she has toured the country with her one-woman show, "Repertoire," appearing at colleges and for various club groups. She has appeared twice as guest artist with the Thespian Study Club in "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" and in "The Royal Family." Mrs. Stewart has also worked with the Howard University Summer Theatre and the Washington Theatre Festival. Following her presentation of "Repertoire" for Delta, she will tour the South, climaxing her appearances with a return to Savannah State College on May 23. Beta Sigma's committee responsible for Mrs. Stewart's presentation includes: Angelyn McLilly, chairman; Emma Mitchell, Anna Steen, Willa Williamson, Mary Murphy, Margaret Holley, Helen Cecil, Maude Stratton, Dorothy Gentry, Constance Barber, Thelma Jackson, Celonia Walden, Hattie Young, Doris Hundley, Gloria Edmonds, Mary Minor, Juanita Grymes, and Betty Hightower. OUR SYMPATHY To Soror Flemmie Kittrell, whose mother died in North Carolina, February 27. BEST SIGMA INITIATES WHIPPER HOME PROJECT The many sorors attending the regular March meeting of Beta Sigma Chapter contributed generously to the Pantry Shower for the Ionia Whipper Home for Unwed Colored Mothers. Articles included canned goods, cereals, sugar, salt, paper towels, and many other useful items. The Project Committee, headed by Doris Hundley, has Celonia Walden, Hortense Young, Maude Stratton, Anna Steen, and Dorothy Proctor as members. This group delivered the articles to the Whipper Home, 5713 East Capitol Street, March 15. Soror Hundley reports that the project is to be a permanent one, with contributions to be made to the home several times a year. MAY WEEK PLANS PROGRESSING The May Week Committee reports that plans for Beta Sigma's annual observation of May Week are moving along smoothly. Activities for this year will include: A Human Rights Forum, Joint Chapter, Rankin Chapel, May 7; an Interchapter Party, Delta House, May 13; a Memorial Service, Howard University; a Formal Dance, Lincoln Colonnade, May 19. The May Week Committee consists of Dorothy Proctor, Maurice Pullum, Anna Steen, Celonia Walden, Minnie Louise Anderson, Josephine Washington, Minnie Bell, Maude Stratton, Dorothy Gentry, Mary Ann Minor, Juanita Grymes, Constance Barber, Hattie Young, Natalie Hamlar, Willa Williamson, Emma Mitchell, and Naomi Newman. 2 THE DELTA BOND _______________________________________ EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief... H. Jeanne Tanner Editorial Staff... Isadore W. Miles Esther Popel Shaw Elaine H. Snowden Myrtle E. Thorne Business Manager.. Jennie B. Shief Mailing Address .... 1228 Fairmont Stgeet, N.W. Washington, D.C. CREATIVE INDEPENDENCE To enjoy the world with all one's sense and yet not be of it; to profit from the material environment and yet not depend too much upon it; to love a flower and yet not need to pick it - therein lies the beginning of creative in- dependence. It means also the enjoyment of the company of friends without depending on it, glad to be alone when occasion offers. It means to secure stimulus and clarity from the conversation and discussion and yet to love equally the silence and the calm wholeness of perspective which it can foster. It means to be neither one of the many who neglect the vast wealth of good books which sur- round us, nor one of the many who read too much; but to nourish an idea or a dream, so carefully to select one's books that from time to time a new one is found which so perfectly fits this idea or dream, that the intimate correspondence between book and the reader brings to both a new discovery, unforeseen either by author or reader. _________________ HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM, MAY 7 _____________________________________ INTERCHAPTER PART, MAY 13 FORMAL DANCE, MAY 19 _______________________________________ BETA SIGMA SENDS COPY FOR SOURVENIR CONVENTION PROGRAM Beta Sigma Chapter submitted this month several articles which should appear in the Souvenir Program for the Delta Convention to be held in Berkeley, California, August 15-19, 1950. Included in the copy mailed to Soror Gwendolyn Higginbotham were write-ups of chapter activities: the Library Project, the Delta Bond, the Whipper Home Project, the Job Opportunities Clinic, and the Delta House. Also included was a page of Beta Sigma personalities who are outstanding in civic, art, or social work activities. Chairman of the Program Committee is Jeanne Tanner; the com- committee has Thelma Johnson, Revella Clay and Angelyn McLilly. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE* Anderson, Louise Minor, Mary Anne Bell, Minnie Mitchell, Emma Bridges, Catherine Morton, Josephine Burr, Jonelle Murphy, Mary Clay, Revella McAlphin, ALice Crocker, Eva Newman, Naomi Crook, Olivet Pack, Louise Daniel, Theodora Pinkard, Edna Davis, Evelyn Powell, Mary Davenport, Henrietta Proctor, Dorothy Davenport, Marcella Pullum, Maurice Duncan, Annie Roberts, Patricia Edmunds, Gloria Shaed, Alice E. Gentry, Dorothy Shippen, E. P. Granger, Louise Steen, Anna J. Hamlar, Natalie Stratton, Maude House, Thaddenia Shief, Jennie B. Hubbard, Louise J. Tanner, Jeanne Humphrey, Emma Thomas, Juanita H. Hundley, Doris Walden, Celonia Jackson, Edna B. Whitaker, Madge Jackson, Thelma Williamson, Willa Kelley, Vermelle Wright, Marion Mattingly, Lucy E. *If your name doesn't appear here, don't you want to see Soror Louise Pack? __________________________________ THE DELTA BOND 3 __________________________ CHAPTER CHATTER By Esther Popel Shaw Springtime is April ---- April is springtime ---- The year time for stock-taking, For spring-cleaning ---- Spiritually, mentally, literally. So let's take inventory, Let's clean up our thinking, Unclutter our minds, Brush the cobwebs from our spirits, Air out our souls ---- And let in the clean, fresh sunlight to brighten up the dark corners. Be free and unfettered humans in the weeks that lie ahead. And when it's really June, continue to be unshackled ---- hit the highroad, follow the sun ---- and forget work until September! --------------------------- If you haven't read "Quackery in the Public Schools" by Albert Lynd, in the Atlantic Monthly for March, 1950 ---- do so, by all means, particularly if you are de- bating with yourself whether or not to go back to summer school for six or twelve weeks of "education" this summer! Here are a few choice excerpts from the article ---- which should be on your "must" reading list: "The average teacher today is one with a low resistance to hocus-pocus dignified as "education" by a self-annointed Sanhedrin." "Quite apart from a mentality which could take this training seriously in itself, there is something distributing about the human quality of a teacher who is willing, even eager, to be kept in life long leading strings by other teachers." --------------------------- "This perpetual childlike dependency of pedagogues upon superpedagogues has no parallel and would not be tolerated in any other occupational group which insists as shrilly as do the teacher upon "Professional status." So ---- my sorors, take care. Don't put aside culture for "education," for what good to a man's soul is a string of degrees when he is lacking in the cultural attainments that make a full, well-rounded personality? Was it not our own Soror Nannie Burroughs who once made the timely observation that "the Race (our Race) is slowly dying ---- by degrees?" (One wonders if she did not mean degrees in "education.") This is the season for orchids --- or would it be violets? ---- to those sorors who have recently achieved distinction. And so, violets to: Sorors Anna Steen, Mary Church Terrell, and Revella Clay for their willingness to serve as test case guinea pigs in breaking down barriers of segregation in Washington restaurants. To undergo the humiliation of refusal of service is no small feat. We all look forward to the court decisions on the issues these sorors have helped raise. Soror Clay for the high class quality of journalism she displays on the woman's page she edits for the Washington issues of the Pittsburg Courier. All our Cardozo sorors who soon will teach in Central High (when it becomes the new Cardozo!) Soror Terrell for being chosen one of the distinguished sponsors of the Roosevelt Day Dinner at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington on January 27, 1950. Jimmie Middleton, who was invited by New York University to be a panel participant at an educational conference on Remedial Teaching at the University in February. Soror Kittrell for the successful convention of the National Association of College Women over which she presided during the annual meeting in Washington at Eastertime. 4 THE DELTA BOND STUFF AND SUCH By Jaytee Just yesterday the trees were bare: No breath of life, no color there. But April came to town at dawn, Walked gently on each withered lawn. And April's coming brought to earth Her fruitful promise of rebirth! WHAT-GOES-ON-HERE-ANYWAY-DEPARTMENT Seems that these days the doctor's prescription can be filled at the music store instead of the drug store. You can get a sonata for sinus, Debussy for debility, Bach for backache, and Mozart for the mumps. We're not kidding. The U.S. Army is really spending money to find out about this stuff. Originating at Walter Reed Hospital and extending to several universities in this country, these medico - musical projects secured classifications of about four hundred musical numbers as to their emotive properties. It is not in any way an entertainment idea — as the people at the Music Research Foundation in New York City will tell you. They suggest the Peer Gynt Suite for gayety, Chopin's mazurkas as a stimulant, the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria as soothing, etc. Neuro psychiatric patients, submitted to this curative music, were found to be less tense, to socialize better, and to have an improved emotional tone. Even after the March discussion, we still oppose Beta Sigma's support of the Pan-Hellenic Council until we can see more tangible proof of its program. ASIDES TO: Roberta Smith in Englewood, New Jersey: Your check for the Bond was a pleasant surprise. Hi to Althea-who-shares-the-Bond with you. Jennie Brandon, Alice Houston, Consuelo Howard, Madeline McNeel, Dorothy Porter, Gertrude Rivers, Avis Robinson, and Ruth Spencer: Thanks for your subscriptions. We were please to see Harlan Miller's column, "There's a Man in the House," appearing now in the Ladies Home Journal. It was formerly a feature in Better Homes and Gardens, a periodical we don't often see. If you're not familiar with it, take a glance at this month's Journal. We think you'll like the entertaining commentary by a man who seems to understand human nature so well. You'll probably find a prototype of yourself or some member of your family. -------------------------- Congratulations to Anna Louise Mattingly, who became Mrs. Bradford Tatum on April 8. --------------------------- IT'S LATER THAN YOU THINK This time we're voicing our question in writing: Isn't it time Beta Sigma clamped down on sorors' participation in chapter activities unless they are financial? ----------------------------- Did you know that Beethoven wasn't responsible for his Third, Fourth, and Fifth? It was Mrs. Beethoven! -------------------------------- Don't forget: No one can ask for more than one spring to remember. For Now-- ADRESSE du IIe CONGRÈS MONDIAL DE LA PAIX Varsovie 16-22 Novembre 1950 à L'ORGANISATION DES NATIONS UNIES "We confess that we feel a special paternal affection, which is certainly inspired of Heaven, for the Negro people dwelling among you; for in the field of religion and education we know that they need special care and comfort and are deserving of it. We, therefore, invoke an abundance of heavenly blessings and we pray fruitful success for those whose generous zeal is devoted to their welfare." Pope Pius XII CATHOLIC SCHOLARSHIPS FOR NEGROES, INC. Under the Patronage of MOST REVEREND RICHARD J. CUSHING, D.D. Archbishop of Boston For Mrs. Mary C. Terrell, One of God's ladies, [?] Brewer THE HOPE OF LEARNING LET the people take heart and hope everywhere, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning." I am glad to be here again and see something of the changes which have taken place. The community is significant for me because I taught here when I first left Harvard and one half of the brains could not enter an institution restricted to men. I feel, therefore, that I stand on holy ground and my message stems from the quotation that was uttered by one of America's greatest humanitarians thirty-two years ago under the stresses and strains of World War I. The outlook today is by no means roseate, but there must be some grounds for hope in spite of the chaos and hysteria which are sweeping America and the increasingly interdependent peoples beyond our bounds of space and time. These millions of human beings have awakened with hope for a fuller life. The hope of learning how to steer through the troubled routes of the present and the immediate future is the central theme about which I wish you to think. There are certain fundamental objectives in this hope of learning which are not new although they are vitally related to ways out of the slough of despond in which the people everywhere find themselves. (1.) Integrity and responsibility are essential for implicit trust among individuals and nations. I believe that we can learn how to apply these qualities in better attitudes of behavior in all civil and human relations. (2.) An attractive personality can not be easily defined, but its intriguing power and sense of humor inspire youth and restrain the vested interests of statesmen and diplomats to consider humanity above selfish fortunes. (3.). Depth of training yields a comprehensive understanding of society based upon integrated learning in natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. (4.). Specialization in an orthodox field of knowledge is implicit in concentration or a major with a view to developing the expert that has become so indispensable in the modern world. (5.). Conviction and courage are imperative for experiment with systematic learning in a cooperative society and world generates respect for human personality and dignity which transcend knowledge from books, laboratories and lectures. The hope of learning consists in emphasizing this objective above all others if we would have good will and peace prevail in the atomic age. Goldsmith pungently said: "Hope springs eternal in the human breast Man never is, but always to be blest The soul, uneasy and confined from home Rests and expatiates in a life to come." In the analysis and interpretation of learning today lies the last hope of preparation for life in a divided and confused (1) TEACHERS Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 4 264 April 1951 N.C. Negro Teachers Are Fighting Heavy Odds The Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina appears to be getting ready to line up with a number of other state universities in the south (Teachers Bulletin Vol. 1, No. 10) to admit Negro students into its graduate schools. A recent decision of the Executive Committee of the Board recommended admission of Negroes if the training they sought was not available in Negro institutions. A further push in the direction of non-segregation came when the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on March 27 reversed a decision of a Federal District Court in Durham (which had held that "the best interests of the plaintiffs [Negroes] would be served by denying the relief sought") and ordered the 157-year-old University Law School to open its doors to Negro students. Meanwhile a Negro medical student has filed suit demanding admission to the University's new medical college. As to the overall situation in the state, the Governor of North Carolina recently answered in the negative the question, "Will the people of your state accept the non-separation of the races in the public schools?" The Bulletin has already mentioned (Vol. w, No. 1) the fact that the Carolina Times, a Negro paper of Durham, where the University is located, had urged the formation of a union, calling attention to the state of fear in which Negro teachers live because of the tyranny of local school boards, insistent on keeping Negroes "in their place." A reading of the March 1951 issue of the Teachers Record, published by the North Carolina Teachers Association, gives a clear picture of the contemptuous fashion in which the representatives of this Negro teachers professional group (whose journal is now in its twenty-second year) are treated by state authorities and by white professional teachers groups in North Carolina. The Legislative Committee reports to members of the Joint Appropriation Committee of the Legislature: "Unfortunately, the organization which we represent has not had the opportunity to present its proposals to the United Forces for Education or to the State Board of Education." An editorial recites that although the United Forces for Education was approached with an offer of "cooperation," "we were not successful in getting a conference with these leaders nor the opportunity to work jointly with them." The legislative proposals of the Association are modest indeed. They ask, among other things, a salary range for public school teachers from $2400 to $3600. The present legal minimums for teachers in North Carolina are from $1080 to $2322, according to degrees held and previous experience. The average salary of teachers, principals and supervisors as estimated by the NEA for 1950-51, is $2800 compared with a national average for the same year of $3080. Salaries of Negro teachers are much lower than those of white teachers in the south. This was shown to be true in North Carolina in the Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights in 1947. IGNORED BY OTHER GROUPS One detects in the editorial expression of the Journal a patience in the face of discriminatory treatment to which these Negro teachers have no doubt long accustomed themselves. "It was necessary," the editorial states, "for our committee to appear separately (before the Legislature) because some pressing problems peculiar to our situation could not be appreciated by the other groups and received no attention from them." Another editorial emphasized that, for the achievement of first-class citizenship by Negroes, "the individual must experience a continuous sense of belonging" and refers to "the neurotic teacher who, having little faith, passes on a feeling of insecurity to pupils and the community." Such a sense of "belonging" is not easy for a Negro teacher to attain when he is cold-shouldered by state boards of education, by his white colleagues and watched over by a local school board, which (as the Carolina Times editorial previously referred to states) when a teacher attempts to register and vote in a political election, "finds some way to relieve him of employment in the school system." TEACHERS UNIONS NEEDED The way of democracy has always been to exhibit impatience with undemocratic practices. Yet such an indignant and justified impatience is hard for the individual working alone to achieve and to sustain. Hence the need for professional associations such as the North Carolina Teachers Association. Hence the need also, we believe (together with the editor of the Carolina Times) for a teachers union which imports into the professional group the militancy in defense of economic and civil rights associated with the organized labor movement generally. We go a step further and say that Negro teachers in North Carolina will only begin to achieve that "sense of belonging" when they succeed in persuading their white colleagues that what is needed for both, in carrying on the struggle for a better life for teachers and for higher educational standards, is a non-segregated Teachers Union. Federal courts may break down segregation gradually in the upper echelons of education but real momentum for the destruction of this un-American institution will appear only when white and Negro teachers unite together in the same organization in the name of faith in democratic education and democratic ideals. Their jointly voiced demand that segregation at all school levels shall promptly come to an end would be irresistible. [*[ca 4-23-52]*] 82D CONGRESS 2D Session H. CON. RES. 211 _____________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APRIL 23, 1952 Mr. Armstrong submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Whereas request has been made by representatives of the Governments of Pakistan, India, Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Yemen, which request was directed to the Security Council of the United Nations, that there be placed on the agenda of the Security Council for possible consideration and discussion a matter of conflict between the Government and people of France and the Government and people of Tunisia, arising from aspirations of the people of Tunisia and their official spokesmen for a greater measure of freedom and autonomy in conduct of their internal affairs; and Whereas it has been and is the steadfast purpose of the people and Government of the United States that such questions, presenting the possibility of disturbances of international order and peace, be placed upon the agenda of the Security Council or other agencies of the United Nations for possible consideration and discussion: Therefore be it 2 1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 2 concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that without 3 prejudice to the legitimate interest and claims of the 4 Government of France in Tunisia, the aspirations of the 5 people and their official spokesmen of Tunisia for a greater 6 measure of freedom and autonomy in the conduct of their 7 internal affairs are worthy and just and should be given consideration 8 by all peoples and governments friendly to liberty 9 and self-government; that failure by the United States to 10 agree to the request of the Governments of the sovereign 11 nations above mentioned that this issue be placed upon the 12 agenda of the Security Council represents a retreat from 13 historic principle; and that this request should be given 14 reconsideration and agreement by the representatives of 15 the people of the United States in the United Nations. 82D Congress 2D Session H.CON.RES.211 Concurrent Resolution For consideration of the Tunisian issue. By Mr. Armstrong April 23, 1952 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs [4-7-52] THE UNION'S SIDE IN THE STEEL CRISIS UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA CIO PRINTED IN U.S.A. STATEMENT OF THE BUREAU OF THE WORLD COUNCIL OF PEACE ON THE PREPARATION OF THE CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLES FOR PEACE TO BE HELD IN VIENNA, DECEMBER 12TH, 1952 APPEAL FOR THE CONVOCATION OF A CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLES FOR PEACE Extraordinary Session of the World Council of Peace Berlin July 1st - 6th 1952 [Apr. 30, 1952] WSB' Steel Recommendations: A Shocking Package What I do know that would explain the Strangeness of the Board's extravagant wage recommendation is very little. As I have stated, a departure from the Regulations was not suggested at any meeting of the Panel of the Board until late on the afternoon or evening of March 20th, at a meeting an hour or so before the Board's Recommendations were published. At that meeting, the Public Members who attended, operating as usual under the potent leadership of Mr. Feinsinger, presented one by one the recommendations which made up the package published a little later that evening. Among them was the recommendation that wages be increased by the twelve and one half cent to seventeen and one half cent series of steps. No Industry Member of the Board or the Panel had ever heard of the proposal until them. In spite of that, the wage recommendation, like all the others in the case, was approved at once, without discussion, by the votes of the Public and Labor Members of the Board. I think one, relatively unimportant recommendation was approved by the Industry Members present. Statement of John C. Bane, Jr. Industry member of WSB's special steel panel, before the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, April 23, 1952 As CHILDREN GO So Goes the Nation [*[ca 2-7-52]*] "Positive Suggestions for Work Toward Peace" Mr. Joseph R. Karsner vice chairman, Freinds Peace Co. of Philadelphia 8:30 pm Thursday February 14, 1952 Friends Meeting House, 2111 Florida Ave. N.W. Sponsored by Greater Washington Committee for Peace Memo from PAC ". . . Dedicated . . . to maintain and extend liberty and opportunity here and throughout the world . . ." Preamble to the CIO constitution [*James Carey Ex 6096*] CIO Political Action Committee, 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington 6, D.C No. 1 May 19, 1952 "Dixie-GOP" Alliance Both Republicans and Democrats included in their 1948 platforms a pledge to support statehood for Hawaii and Alaska. In February the Senate shelved the Alaska Statehood bill by a vote of 45 to 44. Senators Smathers of Fla. and Kim of Mo., took the leadership in defeating this measure, putting racial prejudice above national security, according to Senator Douglass (D. Ill.). In voting against statehood for Alaska, Southern Senators feared again that additional Senator from the two territories might vote with Senators who favor Civil Rights Legislation. The lid was placed on the hope for passage of both statehood bills by the alliance between the Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans. There was an almost even split in the voting on the Alaska Statehood bill. Along with Mr. Taft 19 Republicans voted to recommit the bill for "more study", and 20 Republicans voted against recommit while 25 Democrats voted to shelve the bill, 24 voted in favor of keeping it before the Senate for action. Many well-meaning Americans believe that on the civil rights issues, Republican automatically vote "for" and Democrats automatically vote "against." Frequently overlooked is the fact that somehow just enough Northern Republicans always join Southern Democrats to tip the scale. Senator Russell (D. Ga.) claimed in Florida in April that theDemo- cratic platform on Civil Rights in 1948 was less positive than the Republican Platform. The Senator from Georgia is opposed to Civil Rights in all forms. THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF 1948 SAYS: . . . . . "The Democratic Party commits itself to continuing its efforts to eradicate all racial, religious and economic discrimination . . . We again state our belief that racial and religious minorities must have the right to live, the right to work, the right to vote, the full and equal protection of the laws, on the basis of equality with all citizens as guaranteed by the Constitution . . . We call upon the Congress to support our President in guaranteeing these basic and fundamental rights: 1. The right of full and political participation; HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS SINCE 1817 CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD SPECIAL PRE-PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y. To the delegates to the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth we are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication on October 15, 1952, of PERSONALITY IN THE MAKING The Fact-Finding Report of the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth Edited by Helen Leland Witmer & Ruth Kotinsky This official report represents a synthesis of the tested knowledge provided by the specialists, the staff, and the critical evaluation of the Conference itself. The book aims in particular at enabling parents, educators, social workers, health practitioners, religious and community leaders make practical use of the best current knowledge on the healthy development of personality in children. Contents: I. The Making of a Healthy Personality; II. The Influence of Congenital Characteristics: III. The Influence of Physical Limitations; IV. The Importance of Parent-Child Relations; V. Income Level and Health of Personality; VI. The Effects of Prejudice and Discrimination; VII. Religion as an Aid to Healthy Personality Development; VIII. Some Cultural Considerations; IX. The Family; X. The Church and the Synagogue; XI. The School; XII. Leisure-Time Services; XIII. Vocational Services of Law-Enforcement Agencies; XVII. Next Steps in Research. "This book is a gold mine. Any intelligent and curious physician, nurse, teacher, minister, court worker, who deals with children and decides that therefore he should know something about child nature, could acquire a basic grasp of personality development from this one volume."-BENJAMIN SPOCK, M.D., Western Psychiatric Institute "No other book on this subject has brought together as much data from such a variety of scientific sources and made them as usable to as many." -LEONARD W. MAYO, Director, Association for the Aid of Crippled Children We will be glad to accept your order now for shipment as soon as the book is published. You may order the book for ten days' free examination and at the end of that time either send your remittance or return the book without obligation. Simply fill out the enclosed postpaid reply card and drop it in the mail. Sincerely yours, Harper & Brothers CABLE ADDRESS : HARPSAM - TELEPHONE : MURRAY HILL 3 - 1900 Memo from PAC ". . . Dedicated . . . to maintain and extend liberty and opportunity here and throughout the world . . ." Preamble to the CIO constitution CIO Political Action Committee, 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington 6, D.C No. 6 October 1,1952 ADULT VOTERS -- KNOW THE TRUTH Adlai Stevenson Democratic Candidate, has been accused of breaking one of the basic political commandments, which is "Thou shalt no treat the American voter as an adult." Democratic Candidate Stevenson in his speech on inflation in Baltimore September 23rd, opened with these words, "I find myself a tempted man . . . tempted to stray from the path I have followed . . . I have talked about public questions, international policy, farm policy, labor policy, civil rights, atomic energy and many others." Stevenson did not yield to the temptation of name calling, or making vague statements on inflation, believing "you are entitled to know my views." Reducing the issue of inflation to understandable terms with forthrightness, calling attention to some of the basic reasons for inflation, he continued by giving an outline for a practical program to curb inflation. "Finally," continued Stevenson, there is the matter of direct controls -- on prices and wages and rent. I don't like them; not many people do. But if the alternative is a steady rise in our food, clothing rent and other living costs, then we must have them . . . "I shall favor retaining the controls . . . until prices stop going up . . . and if they don't stop before January first I think the situation should be re-examined and Congress should take steps to stop them. "Inflation feeds on fear . . . we know that scare-buying does . . . it will not be driven out by campaign orators flapping their arms . . . What this job takes is common sense, calmness and courage." * * * * * * * "When the American people KNOW THE TRUTH, we can have the most complete faith in the rightness of their decision," said Jack Kroll, director of CIO-PAC in an article in the CIO NEWS, August 1952. "Political action is no action at all unless it is completed, unless it is brought to the final realization of the ballot box . . . it is not enough to know the record or tell the record to the world," said Kroll. Segregation - Absurd and Wrong By Charles R. Graggs Answer: The Dallas News Editorial July 9, 1953 This article originally appeared recently in The Dallas Star Post and The Pittsburgh Courier. By popular request from all over the country it is slightly revised and published in leaflet form for wider distribution at 10c per copy. Sidney J. Phillips, Negro of Virginia, Franklin County, president of the Booker T. Washington Memorial, a few days ago at a meeting defended segregation by using the phrase, "over-all benefit to the race", meaning segregation. The Dallas News editorial, July 9, highly praises Phillips thus, "is bold enough--and brave enough-- to state the case for segregation." But frankly, just the opposite, no man is brave when he defends anything as absurd, wrong and outrageous as forced segregation is. Only cowards and little minds or those Negroes seeking personal glory will defend human wrong. Negro leaders over the country went along with Phillips in using his influence to have the new Public Highway in Virginia named in honor of Booker Washington. But they all quickly and suddenly resented his Uncle Tom attitude defending segregation--a close relative of slavery. Of course no Negro questions the good derived from industrial education of which Booker Washington was the greatest advocate of his day. However, I doubt seriously if there is any recognized Negro leader today who agrees with the address Washington made in 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition, particularly that part of his speech, stating in effect, "we can live together like the fist, but separate socially like the fingers." Soon thereafter, the "Separate but Equal" pattern began to take strong roots all over the South. Of all absurdities, the "separate but equal" absurdity is the greatest and the most irrational, foolish and preposterous. Because it is utterly impossible to "work together" without conceding and acknowledging no little degree of social recognition. This truth is clearly emphasized in all of Paul's writings. Declared by authorities, segregation is so unjust and detrimental to both Negroes and whites that it has driven three to five million Negroes with predominant white blood, acquired mostly through the years of slavery when they were helpless, to slip over the color fence. Too, evidently those who endorse segregation, do so willfully, knowing they defy both the Bible and history that at the beginning of man's existence there was one group, Adam and his wife Eve. Then, after the world was destroyed by the Great Flood, man was given his second start by the three brothers and their wives--Japheth, Shem, and Ham, who left the Ark, wandered and habitated in Asia, Europe and Africa. Today, after many centuries, based on physical features and characteristics common to each judged by ethnologists, instead of three original races there are more than fifty racial elements in the United States. These sub-divisions, of course, have been the results of migration, subjugation, explortation and mixing of blood. And yet the Negro is the only group singled out, Jim Crowed, sitgmatized and humiliated. Besides imposing enormous unnecessary expense, segregation inflicts hardships, misery and trouble which otherwise could be avoided. This information is furnished or verified by the War Department and the Federal Government in their "intelligence test" report. Segregation develops suspicion and foster hate and intollerance; while on the other hand, non-segregation insures tolerance, mutuality, common sympathies and, indeed, far larger crop of men and women of merit and distinction of a greater variety of endeavors irrespective of race lineage. In the latter, clashes and friction are rare; in the former, these events are frequent. Southern and Northern communities prove these statements. Also significant, Who's Who in American verifies this fact. What I detest, most of all, is the idea to scorn or smear Negro womanhood by showing disrespect and impropriety to Negro women, for, in doing so, all womanhood is shown disrespect in as much as womanhood is without bounds and has no color. Can anything be so queer and perplexing? Can any thing be more Communist coloring? Can anything cause more infiltration? Can anything show any more the lack of good-breeding and culture of Christian practice? My emphatic answer is nothing! No discussion in the past few years has brought to light so conclusively the fallacy and incalculable harm of [*racism*] racisiam as the pamphlets, "The Races of Mankind", by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish and "Sense and Nonsense About Race" by Ethel Alpenfels Stressing another potent point, the first World War was waged to "make the world safe for democracy." Then after a brief score of years the second World War was launched, lasting four bitter years, also for the cause of human freedom. And immediately after Japan signed the peace treaty, 60 nations banded themselves together and codified 26 articles to purge the beam from their own eyes before bothering about the mote in the eyes of their foreign neighbors. The proponents are like the mother-parent chastising the next door's neighbor's child and neglecting to chastise her own child who is headed for the gallows. As a matter of act, no one man nor one racial group reigns supreme in all the activities of human endeavors and achievements. In other words, in the course of human history the capacity of brain power or capability in the various fields has never been confined to any specific group, nor to the Caucasian stock. Individual Negroes who stand beside or above any specific group or any others in achievements will attest this statement. For verification trace civilization from its birth in sunny Africa to the present day. Contrary to the notions of "white supremists" and "ideologists" they need to be reminded that some of the worst criminals in the world have been white, while some of the finest men have been colored; some of the pronounced infidels have been white; while some of the most devout believers in God and Christ have been colored; some of the most notorious liars have been white, while some of the most truthful men have been colored; some of the lowest lewd women have been white, while some of the most ladylike women have been colored; some of the dullest men have been white, while some of the brainest men have been colored; some of the ugliest women of physical makeup have been white, while some of the prettiest women have been colored; some of the most dangerous enemies and traitors to democracy have been white, while some of the most loyal and trustworthy have been colored. These facts are proved by history, current events and unbiased opinions. There is a bit of fear that flitters in the feeling of every Negro living in the South due to the limited sphere, prescribed for him, and he governs himself accordingly. However honorable and varied his aspirations may be, they are too often smothered. The display signs, "For Whites Only" and "For Colored Only" affect the morale of Negroes since these signs instill the false beliefs that they are inferior and unfit socially and otherwise. In addition, when Negroes are positively required to pay the same price for livelihood & the same for taxes, yet to be denied the same opportunity to meet these requirements that is downright highway robbery. And heaven knows this rigid practice shows more Communism than it does democracy. So often I have heard a Negro youth remark, "What is the use, you know this is in the South." Knowing these grim conditions have long been the Negro's lot, who can tell, and certainly possible, but that in this lost-hope group there were and are prized benefactors and geniuses, maybe hitherto unequaled. Men invariably become the products of their environment and treatment; wherein, if they are surrounded with wholesome, inspiring environment and given unbiased treatment, they become worthy, valuable and noble; if not, they become under-growths, worthless and too often criminals. The late Kelly Miller made the startling statement in one of his classic essays, "Had slavery continued a quarter of a century longer there would not have been a full-blooded Negro in America". Having this sizeable per cent of white blood in the Negro's veins, on the study and findings of the sociologist and the scientists, the virtues, hopes and merits, or the vices and demerits in the Negro will be very much like those in the whites. To revolt against this fact is useless. This fact and others expose the fallacy and the wrong of segregation, and fully account for and justify the Negro's claim. When men are restricted and limited by force in their God-given choice they are no longer free men as guaranteed by a democracy, but they are reduced to serfs and bond-servants. When Negroes and whites are brought in closer contact with each other by way of sitting, living or working side by side, neither receives any special honor nor is given any stigma of lesser value. This truth was instituted and embodied in the Atonement nearly 2,000 years ago. And if there is any fool anywhere in the world who dis-believes in God, the Christ and His teachings and the Atonement I pity him and I love him just the same. In fact, this democratic fashion is like the millions of stars in the Milky Way--all blending, illuminating and giving beauty to all mankind. Since the points herein can't be refuted, then by what moral law, by what inherent order, or by what devine decree has anyone the right to snub and ill-treat anyone of the fellow Negro Americans? Lastly, the only course to follow, the only alternative: That course, that alternative is already pointed out by Paul, Christ and His disciples. Therefore, by the forces of justice and by the help of God there rate socially like the fingers." Soon thereafter, the "Separate but Equal" pattern began to take strong roots all over the South. Of all absurdities, the "separate but equal" absurdity is the greatest and the most irrational, foolish and preposterous. Because it is utterly impossible to "work together" without conceding and acknowledging no little degree of social recognition. This truth is clearly emphasized in all of Paul's writings. Declared by authorities, segregation is so unjust and detrimental to both Negroes and whites that it has driven three to five million Negroes with predominant white blood, acquired mostly through the years of slavery when they were helpless, to slip over the color fence. Too, evidently those who endorse segregation, do so willfully, knowing they defy both the Bible and history that at the beginning of man's existence there was one group, Adam and his wife Eve. Then, after the world was destroyed by the Great Flood, man was given his second start by the three brothers and their wives--Japheth, Shem, and Ham, who left the Ark, wandered and habitated in Asia, Europe and Africa. Today, after many centuries, based on physical features and characteristics common to each judged by ethnologists, instead of three original races there are more than fifty racial elements in the United States. These sub-divisions, of course, have been the results of migration, subjugation, explortation and mixing of blood. And yet the Negro is the only group singled out, Jim Crowed, stigmatized and humiliated. Besides imposing enormous unnecessary expense, segregation inflicts hardships, misery and trouble which otherwise could be avoided. This information is furnished or verified by the War Department and the Federal Government in their "intelligence test" report. Segregation develops suspicion and fosters hate and intollerance; while on the other hand, non-segregation insures tolerance, mutuality, common sympathies and, indeed, far larger crop of men and women of merit and distinction of a greater variety of endeavors irrespective of race lineage. In the latter, clashes and friction are rare; in the former, these events are frequent. Southern and Northern communities prove these statements. Also significant, Who's Who in America verifies this fact. What I detest, most of all, is the idea to scorn or smear Negro womanhood by showing disrespect and impropriety to Negro women, for, in doing so, all womanhood is shown disrespect in as much as womanhood is without bounds and has no color. Can anything be so queer and perplexing? Can any thing be more Communist coloring? Can anything cause more infiltration? Can anything show any more the lack of good-breeding and culture or Christian practice? My emphatic answer is, nothing! No discussion in the past few years has brought to light so conclusively the fallacy and incalculable harm of racisiam [racism] as the pamphlets, "The Races of Mankind", by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish and "Sense and Nonsense About Race" by Ethel Alpenfels Stressing another potent point, the first World War was waged to "make the world safe for democracy." Then after a brief score of years the second World War was launched, lasting four bitter years, also for the cause of human freedom. And immediately after Japan signed the peace treaty, 60 nations banded themselves together and codified 26 articles to insure peace and liberty. After three years and one month of a hell-raging Korean War, the truce agreement has just been formally signed. This war, too, was waged to save a trembling democracy. However, this peace treaty will not mount to the snap of the finger so long as racial prejudice through segregation, self-conceit, bigotry, fraudulence, greed and egotism predominates. In spite of the worthy objectives of these three wars, there are still Americans who oppose their own racial groups enjoying the liberties and opportunities which they themselves enjoy. These proponents and hypocrites should first men have been white, while some of the brainest men have been colored; some of the ugliest women of physical makeup have been white, while some of the prettiest women have been colored; some of the most dangerous enemies and traitors to democracy have been white, while some of the most loyal and trustworthy have been colored. These facts are proved by history, current events and unbiased opinions. There is a bit of fear that flitters in the feeling of every Negro living in the South due to the limited sphere, prescribed for him, and how he governs himself accordingly. However honorable and varied his aspirations may be they are too often smothered. The display signs, "For Whites Only" and "For Colored Only" affect the morale of Negroes since these signs instill the false beliefs that they are inferior and unfit socially and otherwise. In addition, when Negroes are positively required to pay the same price for livelihood & the same for taxes, yet to be denied the same opportunity to meet these requirements that is downright highway robbery. And heaven knows this rigid practice shows more Communism than it does democracy. So often I have heard a Negro youth remark, "What is the use, you know this is in the South." Knowing these grim conditions have long been the Negro's lot, who can tell, and certainly possible, but that in this lost-hope group there were and are prized benefactors and geniuses, maybe hitherto unequaled. Men invariably become the products of their environment and treatment; wherein, if they are surrounded with wholesome, inspiring environment and given unbiased treatment, they become worthy, valuable and noble; if not, they become under-growths, worthless and too often criminals. The late Kelly Miller made the startling statement in one of his classic essays, "Had slavery continued a quarter of a century longer there would not have been a full-blooded Negro in America." Having this sizeable per cent of white blood in the Negro's veins, on the study and findings of the sociologist and the scientists, the virtues, hopes and merits, or the vices and demerits in the Negro will be very much like those in the whites. To revolt against this fact is useless. This fact and others expose the fallacy and the wrong of segregation, and fully account for and justify the Negro's claim. When men are restricted and limited by force in their God-given choice they are no longer free men as guaranteed by a democracy, but they are reduced to serfs and bond-servants. When Negroes and whites are brought in closer contact with each other by way of sitting, living or working side by side, neither receives any special honor nor is given any stigma of lesser value. This truth was instituted and embodied in the Atonement nearly 2,000 years ago. And if there is any fool anywhere in this world who dis-believes in God, the Christ and His teachings and the Atonement I pity him and I love him just the same. In fact, this democratic fashion is like the millions of stars in the Milky Way- all blending, illuminating and giving beauty to all mankind. Since the points herein can't be refuted, then by what moral law, by what inherent order, or by what devine decree has anyone the right to snub and illtreat anyone of the fellow Negro Americans? Lastly, the only course to follow, the only alternative: That course, that alternative is already pointed out by Paul, Christ and His disciples. Therefore, by the forces of justice and by the help of God there will be no retreat and no compromise. NOTE: Through a period of years perhaps I have had more articles in the "Readers Column" of The Dallas News than any other Negro. Besides, the courtesy and liberality shown me have always been superb. Again, I have the highest esteem for The News for its broadness in news coverage and for a variety of views on current issues. But I openly break with The News in its editorial policy in supporting segregation Published by Dallas Star Post Pub. Co. Oct., 1953 "TEN THOUSAND STRONG" by Dorothy M. Smith, '29 Mrs. Clarence F. Swift (Janet Huntington McKelvey_ of 1020 19th St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C., writes of her ninetieth birthday: "It is fun to be ninety. It seems to surprise people and provoke such exaggerated exclamations. 'Impossible!' 'You are surely mistaken!' 'Oh, no, you do not look it!' Of course, you are not fooled by the extravagant outbursts, but it boosts your morale to hear them. "The family Bible says, 'Born, April 2, 1862, Janet Huntington McKelvey.' "The college diploma says, 'Oberlin College, Class of 1883.' "Another diploma says, 'Clarence Franklin Swift, Oberlin College, Class of 1883.' "The wedding announcement says, 'Married, July 27, 1886, Reverend and Mrs. Clarence F. Swift.' "A later record says, 'Died, March 15, 1919, Clarence Franklin Swift, D.D.' "Thirty-eight years in the 19th Century, fifty-two years of the 20th. What experiences! What memories! "April 2, 1952, was considered an important day by kin and friends. It is impossible to think of anything left undone in honor of the day, viz. --- beautiful flowers for the breakfast tray and throughout the day; an afternoon 'at home' to church associates and other friends; an evening party especially for family and relatives; an informal reception by the Washington Branch, A.A.U.W.; and at each one of these gatherings, delicious refreshments and the traditional birthday cake. Also, there were three exquisite corsages, including one consisting of gorgeous orchids with a card inscribed, 'From two Boy Friends,' and the names of my two sons-in-law, Dr. Luther Gulick, '14 and R. C. Jameyson, '27. Of course, there was an array of gifts and a perfect avalanche of greeting cards from near and far. Thirty of them came from one of our former beloved churches, the Central Congregational Church of Fall River, Mass. Such a combination of friendly greeting and loving wishes must create a widespread atmosphere of goodwill, uplifting and lasting. "The special personal episodes were: (1) The presence under the same roof for about three days of my three daughters, Dorothy R. Swift, '12; Helen Swift Gulick, '14; and Janet Swift Jameyson, '27. (2) the arrival of Luther Gulick, the busiest man in New York, in time for the evening party, although he must take the night train back to be at his office the next morning. (3) The entrance among the guests at the afternoon reception of two small figures, my two great-grandsons, Sidney, four years, and Michael, seventeen months of age, who marched together across the room, each carrying a lovely little nosegay which they presented to me to the delight of all the onlookers. "The final honor was meant for a surprise when at the close of the monthly meeting of the Washington Branch, A.A.U.W., the members gathered socially with friendly greeting. Mary Church Terrell, '84, was deputed to eulogize the 'birthday child,' who was obliged to respond with what was, I think, my last public speech. A large flowered card was presented containing the signatures of all percent. "Yes, it is fun to be ninety! But, as will be readily understood, it is also a soul-stirring, mountain-top experience." 1893 Seven years ago the Ohio Conference of Congregational Christian Churches asked Rev. Roy E. Bowers to serve it as historian. Since then he has made a number of studies for churches and associates. As a feature of the Conference centennial he was especially asked to write a history of the Conference that should be both popular and definitive. As "The Ohio Congregational Christian Story," it was introduced as published by the Conference at the Centennial of the Organizing Convention at Mansfield, Ohio, on May 20. 1899 Dr. Clarence E. Simpson returned to Detroit in April after visiting his sister in Honolulu. He has only partially recovered from a cerebral hemorrhage suffered last November. His present address is the Arnold Home, 18520 W. Seven Mile Rd., Detroit, Mich. 1906 Through some editorial lapse, the May magazine carried a note reporting that Allen Sessions, son of John Sessions, '18, had recently arrived in Korea. The story should have indicated that Allen Olmstead, son of John G. Olmstead, had arrived in Korea. Allen is a Captain in the Air Force, stationed at Pusan, and is training newly arrived intelligence officers. He has a wife and three small daughters living in Los Angeles. 1907 Thirza E. Grant retired on July 1 as Dean of the School of Library Science of Western Reserve University. One of 18 students in the fourth class to receive library science diplomas RETIRING DEAN Thirza E. Grant, '07, is retiring from Western Reserve. See class news. --Photo by Clifford Norton [head-shot photo of Thirza E. Grant] from Western Reserve, Miss Grant has been instrumental in the growth of the school, which now has some 2,500 alumni. After receiving her diploma in 1908, she worked for one year at the Cleveland Public Library, returning to Western Reserve in 1909 as an instructor in library science. She remained at Reserve until 1913, when she became assistant in charge of the reference division at Michigan State Normal College at Ypsilanti. In 1915-16 she was reference librarian at Oberlin College, returning once more to the Western Reserve faculty in 1916. Advanced to a full professorship in 1925, Miss Grant twice was acting Dean of the library science school before being named to head the division in 1944. During her administration as Dean the advanced professional degree of Master of Science in Library Science was adopted, with a class of about 70 graduating each spring. 1909 Florence I. Otis, for many years a teacher in Proviso Township High School, Maywood, Ill., and for the past three years on the faculty of St. Andrew's Priory in Honolulu, has accepted an invitation to teach English in Kobe College, Japan, beginning Oct. 1. She sailed from Honolulu on the new Dutch freighter Straat Banka on its maiden voyage to Yokohama, arriving there July 10. She is spending the summer in Kobe, becoming acclimated and accustomed to Japanese ways of life. 1911 Mrs. John C. Kline (Louise Thomas) writes: "I have sold my home in Tucson, Ariz., and am now living in Cleveland, O. After selling my home in Arizona, I went to California and Trustee Ends Half Century in Government After fifty years of government service, E. Dana Durand, member of the Tariff Commission since 1930, retired in June. He entered government service in 1899 as editor for the United States Industrial Commission, a temporary body set up chiefly to investigate trusts and industrial combinations. Later he served as its secretary. As a result of its work, a Bureau of Corporations was created, which developed as the forerunner of the present Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Durand became special examiner in that bureau and later its Deputy Commissioner. He served as director of the U. S. Census Bureau in 1910 and was later Food Adviser to Poland. Mr. Durand was appointed chief economist of the U. S. Tariff Commission in 1930, was made a member of the commission in 1935, and was twice reappointed by the President. His colleagues on the Tariff Commission and members of the staff presented him with photographic equipment as a gift in recognition of his service. Dr. Durand's hobby is photography. In point of service, Mr. Durand is by far the oldest trustee of Oberlin College, having served since 1911. Miss Beatice Doerschuk, who began her service as trustee in 1926, has the next longest term. FOR AUGUST 1952 13 Mule Train Pioneer Makes Arizona History MRS. BLAKE looks over one of her scrapbooks. Arizona Mother of the Year is an Arizona pioneer who rode a mule train from Los Angeles to Prescott, Ariz., in 1874, being then four years old. Mary Kate Otis Blake, '93, was presented with the citation from the American Mothers Committee of the Golden Rule Foundation by Gov. Howard Pyle of her home state. Gov. Pyle was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the vice-presidency at Oberlin's 1952 Mock Republican Convention. Mrs. Blake was born in New York state, but headed west at the age of two. With her parents she went by train over the newly-completed Union Pacific transcontinental tracks to San Francisco, and from there by boat to Los Angeles. Shortly thereafter, the family traveled to Prescott by a six-mule freight train. At that time Arizona's territorial capital offered no education above grammar school. She came to the Academy, and after graduation from that she spent one year in the Conservatory, then went on to complete the four-year College course. She wrote and delivered the class poem. At Oberlin she met and married Edward M. Blake, x'92. They returned to Arizona and he worked as a stage rider for the old Wells Fargo Company. He then went into banking and, finally, became a rancher. They have five children, one of whom has charge of the Federal Broadcasting Information Service in Tokyo and another of whom is consultant for the California State Welfare Department. Mrs. Blake is an active Arizona club woman. Her mother was a charter member of the Monday Club, which became Arizona's first federated women's club. Mrs. Blake herself was instrumental in forming the first P.T.A. in Chandler, Ariz., and was its first president. She has written and seen produced several children's plays and is represented in the Arizona Women's Anthology. In a phrase from the Chandler Woman's Club song which she wrote Mrs. Blake is herself one of "the valiant scouts and pioneers whose zeal transformed our land." 1913 The June issue of the Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife carries a study on the life of Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Munson of Groton, N. Y. The story tells in detail of the "Wedding Rug," upon which they stood at their wedding in Beirut, Syria, 36 years ago, and how the rug has been used for nine American weddings. Six of their children have stood on the "Wedding Rug" while taking their marriage vows. 1915 Mrs. John W. Love (Margaret McRoberts) has been re-elected chairman of the Women's Discussion Group of the Cleveland Council on its earliest days thirty years ago, Mrs. Love is also active in the Women's City Club, where she is now on the program committee and represents the club on the Welfare Federation committee on the Women's House of Correction at Warrensville. 1919 Mrs. Elisabeth Nielson (Elisabeth Burgess) is living in DeLand, Fla., and is always "happy to see Oberlin friends who come to Florida during the winter season." 1928 Charles A. Mosher, publisher of the Oberlin News-Tribune, has been appointed to a Freedom of Information Committee of the Ohio Newspaper Association. The committee is pledged to secure full and unrestricted public access to information about governmental activities in Ohio. As a state senator, he has also been appointed to a committee to study public assistance in Ohio. The committee will study aid for the aged, general assistance, aid for the blind, aid for dependent children and other assistance programs. Robert B. Auld received the M.A. degree in English from Western Reserve University in June. 1929 Paul Gilbert, professor at Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., has been awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship and will study at Harvard University next year. 1931 David R. Wahl is "still publishing ISRAEL SPEAKS, "The News of Israel direct from Israel,' a 12-page fortnightly paper, to which he settled down after working with the Haganah during Israel's struggle for independence. Just bought an old farmhouse commanding a view from Spuyten Duyvil in New York's Bronx, where the Hudson and Harlem Rivers flow together. His two daughters are now 15 and 11. Life has been hectic for several years, but has now settled down to being simply stimulating." 1932 Everett Bracken, x, who has been serving as a part-time instructor on the staff of the department of bacteriology at Vanderbilt University, has been appointed to a full-time instructorship. In August he is attending a three-week study course at Cold Harbor Beach, L. I., in biological research. Mrs. Bracken (Iris Bahr, '45) is secretary to the head of the physics department at Vanderbilt. 1933 After 5 1/2 years as Welfare Federation area worker on the near west side of Cleveland, Mrs. Wallace T. Ryan (Florence Materse) has resigned to give full time to homemaking. Melvin W. Wright is joining the staff of the mathematics department at Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio, this fall. For the past six years he has been on the staff of the Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, serving as a teacher of mathematics, dean of boys, registrar and director of athletics. He will teach freshman and sophomore math and help with coaching. 1934 Dr. John L. Mohr, (gr. '33-'34), associate professor of zoology at the University of Southern California, is spending the summer on research at Point Barrow, Alaska. He is studying the shrimp-like animals in Arctic seas and tundra lades as a possible source of food for fliers forced down in the far north. He is working for the Arctic Research Laboratory run by the Office of Naval Research. Mrs. Lawrence R. Hinken (Agnes Harlan) writes that her her husband is now working in Joliet, Ill., so the family recently moved to a home near Plainfield. They have three children, Larry, 7, John, 3 1/2, and Betsy, 1. 1935 "A lot of changes have taken place for the Holmes family in the last six months," writes William M. Holmes. "After working six years on the staff of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, I resigned on Dec. 31 so that I EAST-WEST Class of '22 Re-union brought together Franklin K. Mayer (left) of Harrisburg, Pal, Philip L. Kelser (center) of New York, and Ralph Marshall of Seattle, Wash. Mr. Kelser is retiring '22 president. 14 THE OBERLIN ALUMNI MAGAZINE These Are the FACTS, Mr. President A Radio-TV Address by CLARENCE B. RANDALL President INLAND STEEL COMPANY New York, April 9, 1952 THE PROGRAM Invocation REV. JEFFERSON D. ROGERS Toastmaster ROBERT R. NATHAN A TRIBUTE TO ELMER DAVIS ERIC SEVAREID, MARTIN AGRONSKY Response MR. DAVIS Music CHARLOTTE WESLEY HOLLOMAN, Soprano ALDRICH ADKINS, Tenor VADA ADKINS, Accompanist MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The Winner! THE SONOTONE TRANSISTOR Hearing Aid IS THE "Finest in its Field" So declared a committee of noted engineers, acting as an independent jury, in selecting the Sonotone Model "1010" for the First Annual AUDIO ENGINEERING Award for "technical excellence in the design and manufacture of hearing aids." AUDIO ENGINEERING is the leading magazine in its field. As always, for the "finest" in better hearing, its . . SONOTONE - THE NAME YOU CAN TRUST The U. S. Steel Quarterly NOV. 1953 VOL. 7, No. 4 71 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y. [photo of industrial scene] The Blast Furnaces at Fairless Works THE CHAIRMAN'S LETTER SUBSTANTIAL accomplishments in output of steel and shipments of steel products continue to characterize the operations of the Corporation's steelmaking divisions. United States Steel has never before produced as many tons of steel nor shipped as large a volume of steel products in a comparable span of months as in the nine-month period which closed on September 30. In achieving these two new all-time highs, it has turned out 26,885,093 net tons of steel ingots and castings and shipped 18,951,123 net tons of steel products. This latter figure, including 6,004,920 net tons during the third quarter, is 606,626 net tons more than the previous tonnage shipped by United States Steel in a like period--the first nine months of 1951--and 4,444,625 tons more than the total net tons for the first time months of last year, when strike conditions seriously affected both production and shipments. * * * Production during the first nine months of 1953 averaged 98.6 per cent of United States Steel's rated annual ingot capacity of 36,399,000 net tons at the beginning of this year; the record outpouring of steel ingots and castings resulting from this maintained high operating rate exceeded by 1,233,172 net tons U. S. Steel's hitherto highest ranking production total for a comparable period, achieved in 1951 with its facilities operating at an average rate of 101.1 per cent of its then rated capacity. During the third quarter of 1953, United States Steel's operating rate averaged 95.8 per cent of rated capacity, production in this period contributing 8,870,768 net tons to the peak nine-month output. These figures illustrate what management and labor can accomplish in an atmosphere of mutual goodwill and present a bright contrast to the production picture in 1952, when a prolonged work stoppage in the Corporation's mills lowered the operating rate for the third quarter to 67.2 per cent of rated capacity. * * * The operating rate in the steel industry is, of course, one of the barometers --and an excellent one--upon which economists and business and financial experts rely heavily in prepar- FEATURING: News and Views of Artists and Artisans in the Record, Radio and Television Fields THE BATON An Informative Monthly Publication on Viewing and Listening Entertainment Vol. 3, No. 10 The material in this publication may be reprinted without permission. Glossy photos available on request. MAY 1953 George Washington Honor Medal Awarded To RCA Victor By Freedoms Foundation The George Washington Honor Medal of the Freedom Foundation was recently presented to the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America in an impressive ceremony in Philadelphia's famed Chapel of the Four Chaplains. A citation for "outstanding achievement in bringing about a better understanding of the American way of life during 1952," the award was given RCA Victor for developing and utilizing a program for recruiting and training Negro engineers. Dr. Kenneth D. Wells, president of Freedoms Foundation, assisted by Directors of the organization from the Philadelphia area, made the presentation. The medal was accepted by Albert F. Watters, RCA Victor's Vice President and Director of Personnel. The 1952 National Awards Jury was composed of 30 state supreme court jurists and officers of national patriotic and service clubs. The jury met late last year to evaluate thousands of nominations for the awards. More than 800 individuals, schools and organizations were honored in the 17 divisions of the awards. Regional Presentation In addition to RCA Victor, recipients of Freedoms Foundation honor medals and cash awards in the Philadelphia area regional presentation included the National Freedom Day Association, which was organized by Citizens and Southern Bank, a Negro organization; Gimbel Brothers Department Store, honor medal award for an advertising campaign; former Negro newspaper editor Ralph H. Jones, winner in the General Category for "Negro America: Freedom's Opportunity;" The Curtis Publishing Company for its television program, "Keep Posted," and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Several other individuals, public schools and firms were cited for similar achievements. The recruiting and training of Negro engineers at RCA Victor is part of the Division's specialized employe training program, designed to bring outstanding college graduates into the company for assignments in such fields as engineering, manufacturing, technical and non-technical sales, public relations and personnel work. Pioneered in Recruiting RCA Victor was among the first industrial corporations to send its recruiting officers into Negro institutions such as Howard University at Washington, D.C., to select graduates for training. Several of these Negro engineers are now at work in the company's plants at Camden and Harrison, New Jersey, Indianapolis, and Los Angeles. In addition to their work in the design and development of RCA products, many of the engineering trainees have represented RCA Victor at career conferences sponsored by Negro colleges in cooperation with the National Urban League. ALBERT F. WATTERS (right), Vice President and Director of Personnel for RCA Victor, accepts the Freedoms Foundation's George Washington Honor Medal from DR. KENNETH D. WELLS (second from left), president of the organization, at the recent ceremonies in Philadelphia. Looking on are MRS. J. HOWARD PEW and REV. JOHN ROBBINS HART, Pastor of the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge, Pa., both Directors of the Foundation. FEATURING: News and Views of Artists and Artisans in the Record, Radio and Television Fields RCA VICTOR BATON An Informative Monthly Publication on Viewing and Listening Entertainment Vol. 3, Nos. 13 and 14 The material in this publication may be reprinted without permission. Glossy photos available on request. AUGUST-SEPTEMBER, 1953 INDUSTRY, COMMUNITY LEADERS MEET AT 2 LUNCHEONS HELD ON WEST COAST Leaders of California's increasingly important Negro communities met last month with representatives of the RCA Victor Division of Radio Corporation of America in a highly successful continuation of the Company's program to cultivate mutual acquaintanceship and understanding. The gatherings took place at Los Angeles and San Francisco and included two luncheons and a plant visit. Harold R. Maag, Vice President and Western Manager, and Julius Haber, Director of Public Relations, discussed RCA Victor's objectives and problems with leaders of California's Negro Community, representing the press, civic organizations and professions, at the two luncheons. The informal sessions also brought together local representatives of RCA Victor and its distributor in the two cities, the Leo J. Meyberg Co., with a Negro public which, they were told, now numbers approximately half a million from the Bay Area to San Diego. Cite Interracial Goodwill The two speakers took cognizance of the interracial goodwill everywhere evident in California. Both also referred to the public statements of RCA officials concerning the Corporation's policy of the Corporation's policy of employment and advancement based on ability only. Brought out at the get-togethers was the fact that much of the progress in the community has been the direct result of team work among interracial organizations, notably in the areas of religion, civic leadership, and the press. Among the participating organizations cited were the National Urban League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Federation of Negro Women's Clubs, and many Greek-letter fraternities. In conjunction with the Los Angeles luncheon, the RCA Victor executives invited their guest to a tour of the company's plant in that city, which is engaged (Continued on page 2) HAROLD R. MAAG (left), RCA Victor Vice President and Western Manager; MRS. FRANCES GLOVER, Editor of San Francisco's Sun-Reporter, and JULIUS HABER, RCA Victor Public Relations Director, are shown at the luncheon in San Francisco where the Company was host to outstanding community leaders and members of the press. NOUVELLES BRÉVES • NEWS IN BRIEF • NOTICIAS BRÈVES NOUVELLES BRÉVES NEUES IN KURZE 新闻简讯 КРАТКИЕ НОВОСТИ ÉDITÉ PAR LE SECRÉTARIAT DE LA FÉDÉRATION DÉMOCRATIQUE INTERNATIONALE DES FEMMES UNTER DEN LINDEN 13 • BERLIN W8 • TELEFON: 201117 NO. 11 23rd May 1953. END THE TORTURE OF WOMEN PRISONERS ON KOJE ISLAND! The U. S. negotiators in Panmunjom refuse to agree to prisoners-of-war being sent to a neutral country. The reason for their refusal becomes daily clearer. While the Korean and Chinese authorities propose concession after concession on the P.O.W issue, the U.S. negotiators raise new obstacles and make preposterous new demands which show their determination to continue the war at all costs. Still further increased pressure alone will force the U.S. to change their attitude. Facts about the treatment of Korean and Chinese women prisoners on Koje Island present a further terrible indictment against the U.S. Command which has permitted, and continues to permit, atrocious outrages against women prisoners, including women civilians. These outrages are aimed solely at preventing the voluntary return of prisoners to North Korea and China. They flagrantly violate the Geneva Convention of 1949 concerning treatment of prisoners of war. 21 women prisoners were among those handed over by the U.S. to the Korean and Chinese authorities. But over 60 still remain on Koje Island itself. Therefore it is of the utmost urgency that the facts about their treatment be made known to the women of the whole world, in order that they may raise their voices in protest. All the women are beaten, tortured, raped and starved in an attempt to get them to renounce their right to repatriation. 24-year old Cho Dong-shi, one of the returned women, stated: "The two commonest reasons for torture and beating were resisting screening and resisting violation." Of those who have been returned, one girl, Lee Chang-hi, has become insane as a result of being raped by a U.S. guard. . . . / . . . (13)- (251)- B 115 57/53 NOUVELLES BRÉVES • NEWS IN BRIEF • NOTICIAS BRÈVES NOUVELLES BRÉVES NEUES IN KURZE 新闻简讯 КРАТКИЕ НОВОСТИ ÉDITÉ PAR LE SECRÉTARIAT DE LA FÉDÉRATION DÉMOCRATIQUE INTERNATIONALE DES FEMMES UNTER DEN LINDEN 13 • BERLIN W8 • TELEFON: 521117 NO. 3 24th January 1954 250 Greek Women Call for Help A moving appeal from 250 women prisoners in the Averof prison, Athens has just reached London. The appeal, which is signed by Fanny Isara, Amalia Granopoulu (who is ill with cancer) and others, says that they have been in prison for seven years enduring the most wretched conditions. As a result the women suffer from cancer, leukaemia, kidney troubles etc. Yet there is no medical service whatsoever. The majority of the women suffer from tuberclosis and forty of them have frequent haemorrages. Twenty of them are aged, many are mothers of small children. The women appeal to the United Nations and world democratic opinion to insist that a General Amnesty be granted in Greece to put an end to their sufferings and re-unite them with their families. Mrs Betty Ambatielos' message The wife of the imprisoned seaman's leader, T.Ambatielos (National Organiser of the League for Democracy in Greece) in her New Year Message says among other things: "My most heartfelt greetings go to our men and women in the prisons and camps of Greece to-day. And a close embrace to the precious children– the generation of Greece tomorrow....." "On the eve of the New Year – Mrs Ambatielos goes on – "Our thoughts are with the political prisoners incarcerated in the cold, damp cells of the prisons of Idzedin, Aegina, Volos, in your homes Greek workers, peasants, intellectuals, doctors, the children still see the empty place of the father who is beginning his ninth year of wretched life in the ragged tents of the Devil's Isle of Ai-Stratis. These horrors go with you into the New Year and with them the memory of heroes who have died in them or before the execution squads." . . / . . (13)- 3141- X 2302- 50 [*To Mary Church Terrell from Ruth S. Brumbaugh*] Centennial Anniversary RECORD SHIMER COLLEGE MT. CARROLL, ILLINOIS some words to the wise Benjamin F. Fairless Chairman of the Board UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.