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Kdnctetion in Indiana:

Ind. Superintendent May Improve Negro Schools

By SCOTTY SCOTT

Ramsaikle schools in Indiana that spread their blight of intellectual paralysis in the field of modern education are an unmitigated disgrace to the state. Dr. Clement T. Malan. state superintendent of public instruction de

dared this week.

**In considering the deplorable | situation surrounding the two col- | ored country schools in Newburgh. ' I dr. not agree with those charged with responsibility of maintaining an up-to-date school building that there are no funds available for

of the outworn township unit of government. The twonship trustee. who must struggle along on a miserly salary if he is morally and financially strong enough to scorn emoluments of various and devious sorts, is final arter in the matter of improvements in schoo. buildings and facilities. When Charles South, trustee of Ohio Township, in which the two wretched colored schools are located. says there are no funds available for their improvements the taxpayers seem not inclined

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immediate improvements.” Dr. Mai- 1 to argue the point. Long before an asserted with two-fisted em- Mr. South’s time it was asserted , - g j there were no funds for improve-

, , „ ments and consequently there are • I’m sure the good people o , m) nol j cea i)l e arguments.

Indiana do not wished to be vl <,ss ' state superintendent of ed as a backward state in educa- ^ S( .j iro i s however, is not entirely tional development of its peep e. ^ an effective means of get(,ur Hoosier commonwealth is ( ’ se t} n g himself listened to if he sinto Mississippi only in the mu tei cere ]y desires to see to it that °f geography which we cannot | ever y. child in the state receives ^ e *l > - . .a decent education, regardless df Although ne has been in office ,. at .g t color, wealth or of location nearly four years. Dr. Malan said Q f ^g community in which he or be had learned only recently s j le jives. Payment of $140 on through reading this series ot mon thly salaries of each teach-1 articles in The Recorder of the er ma y i )e withheld in any paralmost criminal denial of opportun- (i cu i ar case by the state superinities for a decent elementary edu- tendent of education if, in his discation being forced upon the inno- C retion, educational standards do

rent children down in Southei n , mee ^ requirements.

Indiana.

He said he would make a per-

Mr. Pouth is' 1 of the opinion there

Grand Master of the 28,000 Both of these one-room schools. be ^° l " ld . 101 finamin s tbe . 1,1 u(h Masons Of Mississippi. The ! located in Ohio Township of war- needed improvement wtthm the

post became vacant upon : » iok C’ounty. were built many yeai s

r rli uso and have been permitted to

the death, recently, of John deteriorite undisturbed by the

L. Webb. Mr. Greene is supervising principal of the high school of Gulfport,

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n^cir n7 nregress"* around ^ them , iousl y is - are separate schools for Indiana has steadily through the | colo ^ d children in Indiana necesycars reduced the number of one- sai >- i JL.C 1 room, one-teacher schools from a

high of 19.000 to less than 500 at present. Although the refinement of the processes of education technically is instituted by local autho:ities, it was instigated and has been increasingly stimulated by state officials with broad vision and a comprehensiur. of the factors that

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trustees of the various townships “n ^teiw-i'ew are charged with responsibility for th - g week ' establishment and maintenance ot ^, b8 pj an to in( .j u d e cclore 1 . public schools fc-i which t ey ie- ob j cers an d enlisted men in the ceive funds collected thiough taxes. aJ - r co ,.p s nas i ira rty support The operation of schools m pool- of - n OV p, linr Ralph F. Gates as .veil cr districts is heir to all the evils a . I(iin j p, f G9n Waft ( u-chivc:t.

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tional Guard under War teparment cont’ol is in initial stages at present with formation ot a headquarters unit and headquarters detachment. First enlistment will

WASHING TON, D. C. (NNPA) be , limitod to 25 percent of the —Jesse M. Dcdmon, veterans sec- designated full strength, retary of the National Association V1,b -dditiona! enlistments of 10 for the Advancement of Colored Percent at regular periods over People, last week protested to Sec- tw ® to years up .o .t ) pel cent, retarv of War Robert P. Patter- Tbe War Department considers son that War Deparnnent policy 1 present plans are tentative mH is restricting enlistments of colored Pioceodmc with caution m view youths in th * Regular Army to ^ be ,incei tainty of the a Ait uue these possessing high school dip- (>1 congress toward univcrtal :nililomas was di-criminatory and un- u, ' y ••’a.ntug which tao Armv topes democratic. | ^ ,u ; iK “ w a ni N ‘ l oual In a letter to Judge Patterson ,uald eftectn eiios-s. he urged the Secretary of War to |

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Indianapolis Railways which says it is seeking higher street ; car fares partly because it lias I had to pay higher wages to em- | ployes. has at least one motor i bus operator who does only what ho is paid to do. And that does not include playing cop This driver’s job is picking up {tudents for transportation Iron’ their homes to . Attucks high school. A large group of husky youngsters wedged their way into the bus as it. slopped at 28th and ,T*a r i s avenue Tuesday morning, seiiously overcrowding it. ‘The law says I must not carry too many. Some of .you must ' get out, or the bus won't move’", • the driver announced. “The law also says your coni1 i any must carry us to school, and if the bus won't move we won't move”, the youngsters retorted. Con vim ed they meant it tb - driver sought a phono at Doc l-ee's Grocery and Meat Market. He explained the situation to company olficials. •'If they won’t get off, put them off”, came a stern order. “Oh, no. Not me. I ain’t big enough”, the drher replied om^ phatically. Half hour latfr another bus arrived to help carry the tardy students to school. Parents said they would protest to proper officials the inadequate service given by the railways company. Sometimes tiie bus is large enough to carry all the students along iho route without overcrowding. they asserted, but generally Ihc bu i is toe email, necessitating overloading if Hie children are to get to school on time. The company says it doesn't have enough equipment. Investigators say much equipment remains idle because the company refuses to hire enough operators and secretly strings along with the AFL operators union headed by Ray Harp which refused to admit Negroes seeking iobs as operators.

MURRY J. MILLER Murray J. Miller, lor the past several years assistant manager of the Hook Drug store at Indiana and N. West stieet. has recently be.-n appointed store manager, officials or Indiana's largf st chain drug company have announced. He thus becomes Iho fir-t Negro t< b ' eiven the re-qumsibiiities of management of this busy store which was formerly operated by the Wallgreen company of Chicago for a number cf years with many colored empicyes. In announcing the appointment of its first colored store-manager. Hook officials said Mr. Miller had demonstrated to their complete satisfaction his competency, ability. and efficiency, and his promotion was in line with the company's policy of advancing eniplo yes on the l;h.ri< of merit. The Hook company considers i*s trained staff of employes ft the Indiana avenue store an important aid in bringing to the public the best qualities of drugs and merchandise at lowest prices. Mr. Miller and James Begley, hi:; assistant manager, are the company's guarantee r .!iat every cunsidcra lion of the customer's needs with courteous :;eivice -viH continue i> be the watchword of the store’s personnel. Born in Dickson. Tenn., Mr. Miller came here and finished his high school education at Attucks, after which he attended Tennessee State college in Nashville where he won letters in basketball and baseball. In following a natural aptitude for woik of a scientific nature, he pursued a course in pharmacy at what is now Butler College of Pharmacy by working his way through. After graduation, he served apprenticeship at the Maxey Drug and Winston D ug stores in this city and a rlmg store : n Ga j y Ind. His ability and personality attracted th^ attention of the Hook company officials who induced the young pharmacist to return bare cs assistant, manager of th^ store of which he now has been promoted to a merited managership. Mr Miller lives in the Douglas apartments, 2105 Boulevard place with his wife and is a member of ihe Kappa Alpha I’si fraternity Scottish Rit? Masons, tin- Elks Lodge, -he YMCA and Simpson Methodist church.

Bilbo and Smith

Dewey, Ives Denounce Hate Front Leaders

NEW YORK (NNPA)— Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Irving M. Ives, Republican candidate fo’United States Senator, last Aeek scathingly denounced Gerald L. K. Smith, -‘Anic' i .i FirV * leader, as a “disreputable demagogue” :or an attack lie bad mad“ against United State- Senator James M Mood and fonr.oi Governor Hcrhe- f H. Lehman, candidates for Governor and .United States Senator. respectively, or the Demot ratic-Anuu ican Labor t.i ce.'. In a joint statement Governor Dewey and Mr. Ives declared that Mr. Smith and his kind were tli? natural allies of Senator Tneodoros G. (The Man) Bilbo of MisH2s?|«sippi and of the Ku Klux

Klnn.

The exact, nature of the attack Smith made upon.the Democratic candidates was not disclosed, but it was said Smith was circulating among his scant followers in New York State letters which reflected upon Senator Mead and Mr, Lehman. The text of the Dewey-lves statement was as follows: ••It has just been brought to our attention that a disreputable demagogue called Gerald L. K. Smith from some place; in the West, has attempted to inject himself into the New York (campaign through an attack on our opponents and a backhanded endorsement of the Republican ticket. ‘We regard this person as beneath contempt and his attack on our opponents m an aci which we denounce as wlieily un-American. Smith and his kind live or. hate. Tiny ar* the natural allies of Bilbo and the Ku Klux K'a.n. They are enemies of freedom in this country—as evil as those wo have; lust beaten on the battlefields of the world. ‘ All our lives both of us have fought this kind of intolerance anu bigotry with all the strength at. our command We shall continue to do so, exposing if and condomning it every time it lifts its ugly head in our society. “There is no place in America for racial and religious prejudice. There is. no place for such base appeals in this campaign. Those who feed on it or use i: will be wrongly rebuked by us an;, we believe, by the people.”

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FLAY TEXTROOKS (Continued from Page i—1st Sec.) whereby minds of children and adults are turned toward war or i peace, would be the primary ob

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Among other programs that the commission urged be handled by ! UNESCO was the formation of a conference on adult education and one on teaching of international relations at university level for 1947, together with an exchange and evaluation of teachers, students and other persons to determine the contributions made toward promoting peace and security. Toward this end, UNESCO should promote scientific education at an adequate. level ir all countries and all sciences. IT. S. schools, colleges and universities were urged to participate in the program of scientific study in devastated areas. This won hi devel op effective international coopera tion between scientists and all teachers of science, according to

1 the commission.

produced one shred of evidence which proves these men pulled the triggers of the guns which wounded the policemen, yet day after day the State has ruthlessly and relentlessly pressed down «on the heads of these defendants.” Last Thursday’s session was opened by the arguments of Hugh Todd Shelton, Sr., of Columbia, special assistant district attorney gen eral, who said tbe State contended that it was immaterial whether or not the defendants fired a single shot which wounded the police men. “If they were aiding and abetting, or lying in wait, they are just as guilty as those who fired the shots,” Mr. Shelton told the jury, citing statutes. The assistant State’s attorney. William A. Harwell. Jr., in closing his argument, said: “I want you to try these defendants as yo-u would try 25 white j Lawrence County defendants. These men are entitled to a fair trial, and the State wants you to give them every consideration.”

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Railways, in refusing to hire Negro workers. The board members, expressing indignation against the street railways company’s tactics in the current situation, went on to vote concurrence in the stand recently taken by the CIO Council, calling for municipal ownership of the street railways system. Action in the “trolly war” was Action in the “trolley war” was president, reported an incident of school bus overcrowding that he had personally witnessed Tuesday morning. At 28th St. and Indianapop's Ave.. Betty said, a bus bound for Crispus Attucks High Schoo' was so jammed that a door broke when the driver attempted to close it on the youthful ‘ sardines” inside. Betty said he counted 85 children on the one bus. after 12 or 14 more bad gone on to school by other means. He telephoned the street railways company, > he said, and was informed that “capacity” of the bus was 40 to 45 seated or 60 standing. Another bus was dispatched to the scene, Betty related, and there were enough students to fill both buses with some standing in each. The Price of Jimcrow The incident was seen as reflecting not only on the city’s poor bus service, but also on the jimcrow school policy. The driver said' the bus had started at 34th St. and Emerson Ave. If the boys and girls had lived in a democratic city and attended the nearest high school, most of them would have gone to Shortridge and perhaps some to Technical. The breakdown occurred about 10 blocks beyond the Shortridge building, as the bus traveled. It was certainly a “heroic” effort to preserve our fascist “superior race” system, hut the lifeless metal and glass of tlie bus could not stand the strain. The NAACP board meeting also moved to increase political activity in the coming elections, by setting up a Political Committee with Ernest Dix as chairman.

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