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I NEW VOPJC - Founded in th
State of Georgia, the Girl Stoul
Pot America points vdB pride t
its success in fostering democra
cy as it looks forward to its 40t
Anniversary to be observed o
March "12th, throughout the ns
jT tion. Perhaps Juliette Gordo
Low, the Founder, foresaw, whe
she made her now famous phon
/; .call in Savannah, Ga., ahortl
p -after returning home from En|
land, that her organization woul
?. embrace well over a million an
a half young girt* of all raco
i creed* end colors in the Unite
States within forty years. Sh
was a native of Savannah. s
That telephone call to a
friend began with the word*
"Come right oyer! I've lit
.r somti Wqr for the girls of &af
- vanmsb, and all Amedcl"to(i
jOLtke worM." With *uut)t
tatk, Virion .he uw the un.
' > >))? idjtatUI of ?gB"Trem
7 to 17 as a powerful force
for good will and mutual understanding
among races and
> gifts was formed k\ N<J
MShis,,. hy .the efforts c
' toilsi Mioa Jaimi|
NHHlMM^and Mm. Eldor
encourage
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Mrs. R. C. Wil- Mre. Charles
ivingstone, 'Rev. narl, Sect'y.
. and Mrs. J. A. lie*. M. Pitt
B. Bailey, Rev. shall and gue
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iirl Scouts
wxatic Growth
e |A.M.E. Church, lending the base;S
mejqt of his church for the first
o ''meet*fig*.
i-i Since that time Negroes hive
h ' spread throughout the Girl Scout
n organization, integrated on'a bai
sis of equality in many of the
n Northern sections, and . quietly
n i bringing together Negro and
e; white girls in Southern regions
y, on many occasions in keeping
j with the spirit of the National
d | Office to foster racial unity, und
derstanding and equality.
R. Marking the 40th Annlversary
celebration will be rep*
resentatives of 1,507 Integra.
; fetI Girl Scout troops fnthe
North and West and 1,634 allNegro
Girl Scout troops in the
South. Also, Negro officers of
the movement who are Integrated.
In the National Office
and throughout various regional
and local offices.
H Tn ttt'A ~M
u icvuui wiwviijfruiciu ui
. Girl Scouts, girls worked, ate,
elep^ and pHs(yed) together on
the basis of equality in the same
tents, end Negro Girl Scoots
d way sent as representatives from
e ? number &t inter-racial IQlrl
h Scout units in the country, or of
(l'their State setJUp. In 1949, a Nes
gro Girl Scout represented the
r entire State of North Caroling.
; "Si&JsJSirft&ljr
v! movement, but girlfc from Am$F
f lean territories such as, tfce VirJ
gin Islands. Puerto Rico, and
Hawaii, teLeaders
of the Girl Scout
" movement at the 40th Anniverr'
oary are* planning to redouble
>1 their efforts to expand the organization
and to work for great,
k-er integration of the races, as
well as to extend their energies
for good will and mutual underStanding
among races and na1
tions. " I "*]
FIVE PERCENT
Today, rheumatic disease afflicts
five per cent of our na-;
' tional population. Its causes and
cure are still almost as obscure
as they were at the beginning
of time.
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! Choir Stages
: Unique Review CHARLESTON?
I Mrs. Dray Ion, director of the
i Senior Choir of the Washington
(formerly Wesley) Method-,
ist Church, Magnolia' Section wijtf
I the cooperation of members of
, the choir presented a styl^ re
view Eeh o? -
I MbdeTs were Misses Etta Let
1 Jenkins, Ida Lee Simmon >, Mari
garet Middleton, Vermel Alston,
Ezella Jones, Margaret Cokely,
Ruby Miorris, Virginia Dickerson,
E. Bates, Irene Ravenel, Rebecca
Palmer, Lillian Williams,
Gertrude Duggin. Apparell
was purchased from Jr. Rebel,
Little Town, Peggy's Dress Shop, ^
Simmon's, Daisy Bogin, Lerner's,
Davidson's, Dianne Dress Shop,
Conklin, Elza, Harry Miller, Cont
don, and the Thrifty Lady. Participants
of the program were |
soloists: Mrs. O. L. Scott. Elisie
Mitchell, Lillian Williams, Celvin
Alston, Rebecca Palmer.
Thelma Dfrayton, pianist, Mrs.
Vermeil Alston and Edna Brown,)
rendered a piano duett, Guests)
Were: .Mk*. Ml Davis, Mrs.' J. I
Region, Mfrs. M. Middleton, Mrs.
M. Richardson, Mrs. Mary Alston.
Proceeds for the buiMin*,
fund of the church.
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Injurea Child
1 Willie Mae Blocker, 10, of 23-1
61 Senate St. was njured when
struck by a car backing info a
driveway early this week, ae -'.
coHding to a report from the
! Columbia Traffic Department. ]i
| The report stated that she.was*
itroated at Columbia Hospital for
bruises >f the hack. The driver 1
of car w a s identified i
hi Jaifvl-s Knott 32.* of 2355 Sen-;1
, ate street.
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Knott backed hi- 1941 Buick se- >
dan backward into the driveway ?
on the north side of the street 1_
and struck the child standing in
the driveway. |
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1FDR Was Man VI
White House Mai
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.CHICAGO, 111. ? Laughtc
x)frus the joy of President Roost
belt's life. "The people may r<
fnembex him as the man they <
lecfcad to the highest office i
tfte land four times, as the apo:
[ tie of the New Deal, as the ai
I ihor of the Four Freedoms, i
I this Commander in Chief.
"But to me, h ewas simpl
th~ Boss or T'apa,' a hard-worV
ing man who loved his fa mil
liked nothing better than
laugh." ??
This is the intimate and
_ warm, memory of ^ Roosevelt
as held by Mrs. Elizabeth
. McDuffie, a White House maid
for 12 years who writes of hei
life with the President and his
family, "FDR Was My Boss,"
in the current issue of Ebony
Magazine, leading Negro pub?lication
-hi the world.
"Lizzie," as " she was know
around the White Hou^e, pre
vides an umpublicized iglimps
of Mr. Roosevelt's life as Pros
dent. With affection and snr
plicity, Mis McDufTie draws
heart-worming and. pio#?m#T^k
ture of I-yXR as a man who love
liis laughs, a*- a man who lovci
parties and gaiety, who love
driving his hand-controlled au
tomobile around Warm Spring
mpre than anything el?e, as
man who thought in big term
when it cayre to governmcn
spending but who had to bor
row a dollar for church collec
tions, a man who efused to par
with his old sweaters no mat
ter how wtxrn they had become
as a man who rated the pros
pect of getting his hair cut, ;
mah who insisted on using left
overs from meals and finally a
a man who was "dcmocrati<
without posing and a true friem
of the Negro without paternal
ism."
From her vantage point as :
maid, Mrs. McDuffie observec
many of the little events tha
took plaoe in the White Home
the little events that, naturaih
become quite significant thesi
-days?as 'historians .icek to e
valuate thr? phenomenal caree
of FDR. She remembers' Harn
Hopkins as a. man who insistec
that she, Lizzie, come to his wed
ding "but not in your uniform,'
aii das a m*f* this country owe:
a great debt of gratitude becaus<
of taie untiring work in behal
of th? government; She renoewi
be** - Wlinston Qhufchiil's
ril
<ippOt! off o
the President's ?/\n<fcnildrer
racing around shouting, "Santi
Claus from England is coming,'
Aiaaame t-'hAing Kai-Shek, as i
gracious lady who tipped her $5(
and treated the household helj:
of.the White House very well
the late Harold Ickes who gave
the President a bigger kick than
anyone else in his Cabinet
Louise Howe, one of FDH'> first
secretaries who had more opportunity
to influence the Prescient
than anyone 'else.
Here's A Farmer 1
Farms Ilut Kept T
WAS! UNA 1 r )N -- Although
L. K. Mar hat. of Porter, Okln
lost two farms over a 10-y?. a
pKTiod. hr> nc\'cr eav eup. :i\
District Agent Paul O Brooks o
the Oklahoma Extension Servic
in a report la-4, week to the U. ?
Department of Agriculture.
Today \?? and Mrs. Mar-ha
own a 1 or re diversified farr
:which they ire trying to keep 1
"the family by fonuirig a par'.net
ship with two of their five child
ren. "We don't wan* our boys t
experience the difficulties w
had," say.s Mr. Mar-hall.
A Daft Indian and a member
Of the Greek Nation, he began
farming on his 160-acre allotment
in 1911, but soon lost it
Then he set out to buy a farm
and had paid $2,400 on it out
of his cotton crops when he discovered
the title wasn't clear."
"I started to (five up and mov
j to town, but my wife liked tb
[ country and I did umj, w ye star
ed out again to( try to own
piece of kuMt* The next yei
they paid down on 60 acres thi
cost them $6,000 When they pa'
out, they bought 70 acres moi
Ia? AAA
v?
??m this land, every lc*
oI it, and are hnve the deeds
Mr. Marshall boaafta. He ?d 01
sen, Jay B., gross about $7,000
year. Hie other torn, Adalh
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10 Loved His Laughs,) Sa
d Says In Memoirs
A |
>r * Mrs. McDufTie's account is
j. " highlighted by some lively
' anecdotes to emphasize her
j. point that "Probably more IS
n than anything else Mr. Roose- a](j
i_\ velt to me wtls a man who hg.,
i_ laughed. He laughed when a __
lg picnic table fell down at Hyde G< r
Park, taking all the fancy sal- star
ads and sandwiches. He laugh- foil
y ed at me because I was always ou'.i
falling on waxed floors. He mai
y always teased the people a- M)el
round him." roll
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As for herself as she lives in L
I retireruc*nt now in Atlanta, Ga., elUl
^ " with nvany White House souvenirs
giveen her by the President tui*
Mrs .McDufTie reoadls vividly the natj
( i rotr she assumed- an "SASOO- ^app
, ! P A." seVf-appointed-secretary- s1km
, ' on-colored-people's affairs. For _?
1 instance, Walter White, the exe;
cutivte director of the NAACP.l
"could by-pass a itw govern- (
incnt channels through me." She
\ was able to interest Mr. Hoose- j
velt in cases of discrimination
i- .. .. . - 1
m ine postal service anfl other
iI
Mrs. McDufTie prizes a m-mo
government agencies and today
from F'DJl advising her about
, the appointment of Negroes to !
ci . , I
. sup rvi^orv positions in the
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Your Show Moves |
t Into Third Year .
OnNRC-TV | B1
1 NEW YORK CITY?Notwithstanding
remarks made .by many
people in the television industrv J
aJ that an audience could not be
held far an hour and a half,
s NBC's 90-minute television mu-it^M
, sical revue, "Your Show of
^ Shows," starts, ijts' third year on |
the air wi'h broadcast of Marchn
*i,st- a
Having eons latently placed 1
1 among the five top TV shows I
t since its initial program,
Your Show of Shows" has
/ continuously starred Sid Cae- D
; sar and Unogene Coca. Tiie
?program has?been?sold?oat J,
r since September 1950, to par- !
/ ticipfiUng sponsors who foot 9
1 a sizeable bill in time and pro- |
gram charges for the benefit
" of the more th^n 20,000,000
s viewers who see the show. , I Jj
; The Pnly Williams Quartet is 9
f ? feat11r.. attmetion ->h?t Viae arwB
- peered or the show since its be^B
.. h this sudden rise ih,j I
U % popularity ^ the -sinffixifc' "
f {roup u-en in constant dt?j?
\ mand for night club, hotel and H
i theatre engagements. B '
Max Liehman, producer, ft
j?proudly notes that "Your Show . S
> of Shows" is backed up by a : 1
) of experts who put together a p II
; team spirit, an dby a platoon ^ "
? of experts who put together a j > ^
i hew musical review every !i>JH
; week by work ing the major
portion of the 1G8 hours in the j ]
week. il
On the premiere broadcast '
j Burgos^ Meredith actc.l as host,! ' ^
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SSfe X
Who Lost Two I
Ught On Trying J
h shares the u>- the tractor and'B
other equir im :it, but rents Go'R
r aero- independently.
Only U'n?'.iuit?.<?nn'l?frtrmin'.;
f farming practices, Mr. Brooks
0 p'tints out. could th v have been'*
>. able to start all ov* r twio . The . jU
Marshall* u i a to plant ai"-1 of I
II 'heir Inn*! t > cotton. but when
^ cHTi-jiite allotments first went in- H
to < Pfert several years ago to hclp .B
, . contfol ov. r-produetion ana safe- !
1 guard the fertility of the -oil, they i I
shifted <ome of their land to oth- H
! er crops.
In addition to cotton, they &
now sell corn, soybeans, I
cream, calves, hogs, broilers, I
1 | and eggs. County Agent liar- J1
i old E. Berry \ns helped them
' I to develop Improved pastures. jl
1 i "We Like it better this wa/,"|B
^ i says Mrs. Mnarshal], "now wo.B
, have money coming in year.JB
1 round and I can make some home I
'e improvements I've been want-IB
ie? in? a long Jlmc." IB
?Mi s Inez Williams, the home fl
a demonstration agent, points out I
Iri thai Mrs. Marshall in putting I
some of her money from broil- I
^ j ers and eggs into home appliance fl
r* and modern conveniences.
4 T%o Mar shells formed their I
Lit father-and-sons partnership two fl
*" yem& ago and like it fine. "We are I
m ! not worried now about the farm I
a | being lost wHeo we're gone," fl
is, says Mb. Marshall
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irah Vaughn,
la Fitzgerald
*e Top Singers,
ee' Declares "
rEW YORK Ella Fitzger
, f'oonsidered the champ o
m all by many authorities ir
trude Lawrence was the gues
\ and this pattern ^as beer
owed ever aince with suet
standing stars as Mische El
Jove Ferrar, Pearl Bailey
vin Douglas, Madeline Carand
many others,
ena . Home, celebrated nighi
:> singer who has also beer
tu<red in mar^y motion pics
musicals, is among the many
onally famous figures to have
eared' on the star-studded
v as hosts and hostesses.
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tha and Sarah Vaughn,
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rhythmic accents," are nainad by
Steve Allen as top singers in ail
article in the current issue d
See' Magazine, Just released.
Ella," says the CBS star in hit
I regular "Sec-ing Stars" feature,
" t "is blessed with the ability tc
f J make a pretty sound. When she
11 sings 'sweet,' the litener is entranced
by toier tone whether he
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of them." , '
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peculiar, bewitching noise that
She slithers from one note to the
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