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RESIGNS POST [Photo] ROBERT L. VANN Editor of the Pittsburg Courier and special assistant to the Attorney General in the Department of Justice, who handed in his resignation this week, effective January 1. Mr. Vann says, he is returning to his private business, but is not retiring from political activity. Mr. Vann received the appointment a few months after the election of President Roosevelt.
RED HEADED POST OFFICE CLERK ACTS LIKE FAR SOUTH ROUGH NECK If there is any time during the year when there is a fellowship which is kindred between all groups and classes of Americans, whether they be white or black, rich or poor, high or low, it is around the Christmas season. It seems that the Christ spirit begins to at least pass through the minds of the American people, north, east, south and west, around Christmas eve of each year, whether that spirit [illegible] [permeates?] the being of any large number of them in some of the nation's localities or not, so far as Negroes are concerned, other than that which is within their own group. Right here in Louisville, however, a strange, surprising and embarrassing situation was met by a well known business man last Monday morning, the day before Christmas eve. According to this business man, whose name we are withholding, he had gotten together a number of greeting cards to be sent out to friends, and in the number were three cards addressed to white friends. In nine out of ten cases said he, he would have sent to the postoffice for stamps. Usually busy, he was not so busy last Monday, and he himself, went to the sub-station at Liberty and Armory Place for stamps. Reaching the stamp sale window, he found several persons in line. Not being in a great hurry not only did he wait for those ahead of him to be served, but he allowed others to be waited on. When all were through he walked up to the window, but before he could ask for the stamps, the clerk yelled at him, "What are you trying to do? Who gave you the authority to get up to this window ahead of other people? Knowing that the clerk was all wrong, the business man, [though?] [illegible] and embarrassed, in straight, positive words let the clerk know that he was wrong and that the remonstration and insult was resented. That was done while the clerk attempted to drive him from the window with a storming voice, and the usual rough way employed  when a colored man is the subject. The three persons who were in line for stamps behind the business man did not come toward the window until the colored man had moved to the window and might have gotten away before anyone of them approached had the clerk promptly waited on him instead of going into rage for no cause at all, other than raising his eyes and looking into the face of a black man. In Louisville the relationship between the races is finer than in any other southern city, and is as fine as there is in many cities north. In the Louisville postoffice is the finest kind of (Continued on page 4)
EMPIRE BUILDER [Photo] WILLIAM MILES A great asset to the city of Louisville is the Empire Taxicab Co. It is to colored Louisville what the Yellow Cab is to white Louisville. The company was organized by William Miles because he felt colored people were entitled to the best. With a small number of cars he started some years ago, and by quick [reliable?] and reasonable rate service he has built the Empire into a fleet of cars with safe and sane drivers, who are polite and protective to patrons. Mr. Miles deserves the commendation and patronage of the taxicab users of the city because he has given to them a dependable service equal to that any other group enjoys. Turn to page 3 and see his fleet of cars and the colored drivers of them.
WOMEN WARNED TO RETURN DOLLS The two women shoplifters who took the colored dolls from the National Confectinery and News Store at 919 West Walnut Street, will not be arrested if they return the dolls. According to the management, the dolls were taken Christmas eve, Tuesday night, by two women whose names and addresses are known. The management states that nothing will be done if the two women return the dolls, but that a warrant will be sworn and they will be arrested if they do not return the dolls.