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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE VOLUME I.XXVIII <iiiiin»ii RrusirinU Toure Gets Warm Welcome in U.S.A President Toure Visits N. C. Mutual’s Home Office PRESIDENT SPAULDING GREETS PRESIDENT TOURE From left: Arva Floyd, Interpreter, Department ol State; His Excellency Sekou Toure, President of the Republic of Guinea- Robert *• G ?, rng ' a "- De P ut y Chief of Protocol, Department of State; Asa T. Spaulding, President of North Carolina Mutua , ; .an unidentified person, J. W. Gcodloe, Vice President and Secretary, North Carolina Mutual; Major Lambert, Paul H. Clar.<e, Security Officer, Department of State. October lionored h^Lrt C K by r ° lina a visit \ o Ut , from Ual ^ Excellency Sekou Toure, dent of the Republic of Mrs. Toure, and their a ® e - Rock Hill CORE Registers To Vote Rock Hill, S. C.—More 100 additional Negroes will eligible to vote in the er 1st Rock Hili, South lira municipal election of the three-day whirlwind reg¬ istration campaign of CORE. In a driving rainstorm bers of CORE made a door-to- drior canvas seeking oct those not yet registered to vote. The chairman of the newly ed Rock Hill CORE group Thomas M. Murdock, a photo- grapher. The group was sisted by National Field Sccre- tary James T. McCain. CORE workers helped in fill- lng out registration forms erly and provided transportation for all those needing it. A memtaer of CORE was stationed near the registration office to give last minute aid and to get names, addresses and certifi. catc numbers of those who reg- , «.*«« persons may be contacted w ^ ien ■ Continued on Page Four, Open House at Bethlehem Center Sunday SCENES OF SERVICES OFFERED AT BETHLEHEM COMMUNITY CENTER 1. Day-Care for Children of Em¬ 2. Community Service-Jonquil Car¬ Leisure Time Activities for ployed Parents den Club School-Age Children • The board and staff of Beth¬ lehem Community Center am Day-Care Center will hold opor house Sunday, November from 3 00-5:00 p.m. at th< Center, 303 West Gwinnett St Everyone is invited. Bethlehem Community Cen¬ ter opened its doors to 230 children and 114 adults the month of October. From Monday through Fri¬ day afternoons the doors have swung wide as boys and have come in to such groups as the “Jack Jill Club” for 6 and 7 year olds;., or the “Tuesday Good Time Club” for auannalt ©Ilnur ADams 4-3132 Following a program at North Carolina College, Presi- dent Toure and his party arriv- j ed at the Home Office of North Carolina Mutual at 11:20 a.m. , where he was greeted by North ' Carolina Mutual’s President, Omegas’ Achievement Week at SSC Climaxing the annual observ¬ ance of National Achievement Weelt ’ the local Omegas will sponsor a public program on November 15 at the six vespers in Meldrim Auditorium Savannah State College. The public is coidiaiiy invited. j Speaker, for the occasion; will be Bro. Paul L. Taylor, Dr. Taylor is director of Guiding j and Testing and Professor of Education at Savannah State! College. Born in Darien, Ga.,: the speaker is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University, (A B . l; Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartfrod, Conn., (M A ) . McCormick Theologi- ca j seminary, Chicago <B. D.); Western Theological Seminary, j Pittsburgh, Pa., (M. Th.); and j nd j ana University, Blooming- , t nc j ,£<•[ n , pa5tored Carohna and’ New York. 1 and, while Associate Professor a year olds. A group of 19 sub- ,epn boys have come in on friday afternoons to do worxl- work under the direction William Russell, a student Savannah State college. Others have come to cook or to sew, to paint, to sing, to play toge¬ ther, to plan together with the guidance of an adult worker activities to enrich their Six such groups are now or- ganized. In addition there is a parents’ club which meets monthly, composed of parents of day-care children Halloween week there were j parties . each afternoon—masks Asa T. Spaulding The entire party toured the building with y ... *‘ ^ _ ?. ent ^ Secre ^ I ic eS an ry j f tour W ' ended °. 0<> ?'.° / ln e the , c ^ Home arge ‘ Ofi ? fici r hc 1 (Continued on page tnree, I | I I)r l Paul L l Tavlor ^ j of o Education w and College ... Min-: ; ister . , , at ... Arkansas A. M. and N. College. Pine Bluff, he organ- ized _______| the First U. S. Presbyterian tContinued on Page Eight* were made, candy apples cook- ■ ed, jack-o-lanterns molded from paper-mache. On Friday afternoon a group of 10 girls with milk cartons in hand went out in the neighborhood to “Trick or Treat for UNICEF.” They collected $2.55. Volunteer workers play an important part in the program of Bethlehem Community Cen- ter. Assisting with groups this month or in some other capa- city have been Mrs. Helen Brown, Mrs. Ronelle Taylor, Mrs j Sadie Chance, Mis Richard Sheets, Mrs. Lansdeil Banks,: Mrs. Regina Graves, Mrs. W. M. SAVANNAH, GEOBGLA SATURDAY, NOV. 14, 1939 By Charles J. Livingston for Associated Negro Press CHICAGO — President Sekou Toure, the man who bravely led his country into independ¬ ence from French rule a year ago, received a warm and heartening welcome during his three-day visit to Chicago re¬ cently. Arriving by air from Durham, N. C, where he made history as the first black man to be hosted officially by a southern gover¬ nor, Toure received full honors reserved for visiting heads of >tstr. The round of festivities started the moment his plane touched down at Midway air¬ port and continued through early Saturday, when he de¬ for Los Angeles, the stop on his 16-day good¬ tour of the United States. Toure’s tour of the country began after he and Madame Toure were hosted by Presi¬ and Mrs. Eisenhower In In the capitoi, the were housed at Blair the presidential guest and entertained by President at an elaborate House dinner. It was Eisenhower who invi- President Toure to the States. Local Y Teenager Wins at Natn’l Miss Saundra Barnett, daugh¬ ter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bar¬ nett, and local representative to the National Y-Teen Con¬ ference held in New York City and Washington, D. C., won laurels for the Savannah Y-. Teen Clubs. She participated whole¬ heartedly throughout the con¬ ference, and while actively engaged during a discussion decided to close her with an original poem titled “The, Spirit of Citizen¬ This resulted in her receiv¬ an invitation to read her on the occasion of the banquet scheduled Saturday, November 7. De¬ the fact that teenagers from north, south, east west to consider together Role in National and Affairs,” Miss Barnett the only Y-Teen of her to appear on the banquet Following the presentation, delegate was com- highly by Miss Doro- Woods, Consultant for Development, _ ' . who , was resent , . th e ... , . ™ CA ene ™' Switzerland. , In addres- the members of the con- Miss Woods told her Wright, Mrs. Dora Bryant, Mrs. Emma Lewis. A recent teenage volunteer is Ernest Parlin. Adults ot our community have come through Bethlehem Center’s doors for educational, social and cultural meetings. Such groups as the Men’s Rose Garden Cub and the Food Ser¬ vice and Management Dept, of the State Department of Edu¬ cation have held workshops in the ' building. '^ Tuiidi)^ Other 'have'been groups u slng the 0mega Phi Psi Fraternity, j on q U jj Garden Club, the . _ . _ ............. (Continued on Page Eight) In more serious moments. Presidents Elsenhower and Toure discussed the economic and political future of Guinea and its relationship with the United States. Gets Red Carpet Treatment In Washington also, the am¬ bassadors of the free African countries were hosts to Presi¬ dent and Madame Toure at an elaborate reception In Mayflo¬ wer hotel. In fact, everywhere they went, officials went out of their way to give the 37 year old Negro president of the new African republic a great re¬ ception. Chicago was no ex¬ ception. President Toure was met at the airport by Mayor Richard J. Daley and other city leaders and driven in a police motor¬ cade through the city to his hotel. The following day, he was officially welcomed by the mayor at city hall and given the keys to the city. At city hall, he reviewed an honor guard composed of army, navy and air force personnel, led by the Fifth Army band. Later in the day, he was taken on a tour of the city’s southside, predominantly pop- (Continued on page three 1 Miss Saundra Barnett listeners, whom Miss Barnett! had captivated, that there was \ nothing that she could include ; in her speech on citizenship ‘ that w-as not incorporated in the teenager’s poem from the Southern Region. Miss Barnett was requested at the end of the banquet pro¬ gram to send copies of “The Spirit of Citizenship” to The Bookshelf, a YWCA bulletin for teenage program leaders, and The YWCA Magazine, which is the national publication for the Young Womens' Christian Association of the United States (Continued on Page 8j Mr. Stanley Named To API Seminar Frank L. Stanley, Sr., Pub¬ lisher of the Louisville Defend¬ er, has been named a member of the American Press Insti¬ tute's Seminar of New Methods of producing newspapers at Columbia University from No¬ vember 8 to 20. The Seminar is for news¬ paper executives who publish newspapers which have under 40,000 circulation. Twenty-five cities in seventeen states and two countries will be represen¬ ted. The group will study ajll new machines, materials, and me¬ thods involved in producing a newspaper. They will put main interest on (1) the reader, (2t the advertiser, <3i production costs, and (4) internal opera¬ tion of all newspaper depart¬ ments. They wifi visit and study model newspaper plants in the vicinity of New York City and be guests of the As¬ sociated Press, United Press International, and the New York Times. Mr. Stanley will be the sec¬ ond Defender Editor to attend the American Press Institute. The late Prank H. Gray was in attendance about 10 years ago. In each instance they were the only Negro members. Successful ’Register to Vote’ Campaign Conducted RECEIVES AWARD—Mrs. Eve lyn Hormcs, 218 W. Street, is shown receiving a $50 award for causing highest number over 50 to register to vote. The award There Lx usually the feeling that too many are not bothered about the progress of their community. They do nothing to improve conditions. But several months ago some did decide that they were NOT satisfied and were going to see what THEY could do to help. A small group set about con¬ ducting house to house meet¬ St. Louis NAACP Memorializes of Wilkins ST. IXIUIS — A house now being demolished to make way for a huge urban renewal pro¬ ject has been memorialized by the St. LouLs branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as the birthplace of NAACP Executive Secretary Ruy Wil¬ kins. An NAACP life membership scroll commemorating Mr. Wil¬ kins’ birthplace will be presen¬ ted to Mrs. Nellie O. Wilkins, the NAACP leader’s stepmoth¬ er, at the branch’s sixth annual tea here on Sunday, Nov. 8. Presentation will he made by SSC ALUMNI PRESENT CHECK Dr, William K. Payne, Presi¬ dent, Savannah State College, accepts alumni scholarship fund A Dams 4-3433 was preset)ted by E. C. Black- j • shear for the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge Mas-' of Georgia. Looking on is! Rev. George D. Walker who: served as guide at the court-1 ings—their purpose to get peo¬ ple to register to vote. At some of the houses many people met. At other homes there were few. Never giving up, this group adopted the slo¬ gan: “From Little Acorns Oak Trees Grow,” and kept working. Borne of Savannah’s citizens like Mrs. Laura King, Theodore Roberts, Walter Bogan, Rev. P. A. Patterson, Mrs. Spencer Mrs. Margaret Bu3h Wilson, president of the St. Louis branch, NAACP $501) life memberships have frequently been taken out Ih memory of individual per¬ sons but tins is the first to memorialize a person's birth¬ place. 'I lie scroll certifies that an NAAfP life membership "is hereby vested in 2G18 Laclede Avenue, Samt Louis, Missouri, birthplace of Roy Wilkins,’’ The site of tiie homestead Is within two blocks of the pres¬ ent NAACP branch ollice Bt. Louis. check for $4600.00 from Leonard W. Law, president. Savannah State College National Alumni Association, as Prince Jackson, Price 10c \ NUMBER C house on several Monday., fr 3-5 pan. He also was adv< at many block meeting., hc,d to stimulate people to reg..,' - r to vote, White, S. J. Brown, Mrs. Sarah. Vanelllson, and Rev. George D. Walker were invited to the ;e house meetings to teacli people how to register. Rev. Walker was with the group from the beginning ser¬ ving as adviser and courthouse guide. A contest was started tostlm- Contlnufd on Page ijfour) The future NAACP executive secretary was born at that address on Aug. 30, 1901, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Wilkins. His father, at th it time a foreman in a brick I i, later became a Methodist cler¬ gyman. Roy lived there until he was about four year; old. After his mother died, he ; i his brother and sister wen' to live with relatives in Bt. Minn. The Rev. Mr. Wi in.-: died in 1960. The special life membership, the scroll asserts, wu, pur- (Continued on Page 8 > Jr., aluinni secretary, a Prince Mitchell, alumni as; ation treasurer! look on.