WE WISH ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR
J. A. JACKSON COMMENDS 75TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE Says Teachers Should Take More Interest In Directing Negro Mind Toward Business Editor's Note: We are reproducing a letter from J. A. Jackson, noted business specialist and veteran newspaper man that is personal but which should be of public interest. Mr. Jackson began his major newspaper career as a member of the staff of the "Billboard" a national theatrical magazine. He has contributed to leading daily and weekly newspapers. He has held positions in the Department of Commerce under Republican and Democratic administrations, and is at present a special representative of the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Jackson who has lectured to college and fraternal groups throughout the country, supports The Leader in his reference to the lack of sufficient interest on the part of teachers in directing race students toward business. As a guest speaker at a symposium sponsored by the Louisville Municipal College two years ago The Leader publisher said that capable and progressive Negro business executives were hampered because of the lack of manpower, that there were not enough ambitious, intelligent young Negroes being interested in journalism and general business, and that in his opinion the schools and colleges were very largely responsible for the situation. Mr. Jackson's letter follows: "Please accept as a sincere compliment [these?] few words anent your recent special edition. They come from one fully familiar with the extreme difficulties with which the Negro journalistic enterprise is conducted; and from one who knows through years of experience what constitutes good newspaper work. Your local public should be greatly pleased with the fine assemblage of editorial material presented in the anniversary issue; and I have not the least doubt that had you been able to command the services of even nearly competent advertising solicitors that the issue would have been vastly more profitable. The circumstance is one that I have been struggling for years to aid in correcting; and it may take a long time more. In this connection, I wish to state that I burden myself with a twenty pound case as I travel filled entirely with clippings from Negro newspapers, including yours, depicting in pictures the proof that some where, some Negro has broken through every barrier to commercial employment and enterprises. This is my gratuitous gift toward arousing some business pursuit interest in the school youngsters whom I so frequently have occasion to address. Our teachers have been remiss in not taking sufficient interest in directing the Negro mind toward business, and while you and several others whom I know are seeking advertising people, and while some men like Joe La Couer, Mrs. Porter of Washington and others are earning really large incomes from such work. Few youngsters are having their attention directed toward it--and all of the time there are young men and women crying for teachers jobs that are overfilled. Keep going. For twenty years I have watched your consistent progress. Some day our educators and others will wake up to the value of the Negro press, and with that awakening will come an appreciation for the wide variety of profitable opportunities the publications offer. Yours for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year."
RADIO CHIEF BACKS BAN ON COUGHLIN, STATION PICKETED
BORDENTOWN BEAUTY CLASS [photo]
PUTS OVER DRIVE [Photo] HERBERT T. MILLER Executive secretary of the Christian Street Branch Y.M.C.A., Philadelphia, is still getting congatulations for the historic campaign he directed in which Negroes led the entire city, completing their drive in two weeks as originally planned; reaching their quota of $25,000, and oversubscribing this quota by $12,726. With six white branches also part of the citywide effort not a single one reached its quota. Miller is a native Kentuckian.
NEGRO ON JURY IN MEDICAL CASE
HONOR NEGRO CONGRESSMAN FROM NORTH CAROLINA
CRIME HAS HOLIDAY
CRIME TAKES A HOLIDAY IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE No Holdups and Only a Few Thefts Reported During Weekend
NEW YORK SCHOOL TO TEACH RACE TOLERANCE
STITH TAILOR DIES SUDDENLY Frank Liggett, 53 years old, and well known on Walnut St., died suddenly Saturday, December 24, from a hemorrhage of the lung in the Stith Tailor Shop, where he was employed. Liggett was a native of Nashville. Funeral services were held at the Mason and Hobbs funeral home, Wednesday. He is survived by his mother, wife, a son and daughter and one brother.
AUTHOR [Photo] MISS ZORA NEALE HURSTON Author of the new book, "Tell My Horse," published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pa., which has been widely praised by critics. The book is the story of folk life in Haiti and Jamaica, personally observed as no white person ever saw it. Carl Carner, author of "Stars Fell on Alabama," says: "Her book is full of keen social comment relieved with constant humor, is packed with good stories, accounts of folk religions, songs with both music and words."
FAITHFUL MARY RE-JOINS DRIVE
ITALIAN FORCES IN ETHIOPIA FACING SERIOUS DIFFICULTIES
MINISTERS TO HOLD MASS MEETING MORAL, CIVIC PROBLEMS OF RACE TO BE DISCUSSED United Ministerial Brotherhood Would Lead 65,000 Negroes In Louisville The United Ministerial Brotherhood of Louisville will hold a mass meeting at the Plymouth Settlement House, Tuesday, January 3, at 11 a. m. The recently formed organization is composed of ministers of the various denominations of the city whose object as stated in its constitution, is to "benefit all the people by civic unity, moral uplift, poli- nomy, religious ascendency, edu- tical cleaning, justifiable eco- cational progress and to cultivate a better relationship between the races. An article in the constitution says that "regular ministers in good standing with their denomination, men of vision and gentility and who are respectable and humane may become members, that any outstanding layman may become an honorary member with the privilege to speak or ask questions but not to hold office." at the mass meeting next Tuesday morning the ministers will discuss the moral and civic problems of the race in Louisville, as is recognized in other cities. The subject is to be opened by Rev. G. Horace Jenkins, president of the United Ministerial Brotherhood.
ALPHAS AND KAPPAS IN ANNUAL CONCLAVE IN DETROIT
BURGLAR ENTERS GARVIN HOME A burglar who attempted to loot the A. L. Garvin home, 2307 W. Chestnut St., last Thursday was frustrated by Mr. Garvin before he was able to completely ply his trade. The thief who gained entrance to the home during the absence of the Garvins escaped through an open window, believed to be the way he entered when Mr. Garvin returned to the home. Joined by neighbors a search was made for the burglar, but of no avail. Only a slight description of him was obtained. Upon investigation nothing was missing.
"POSSE" OF 1,000 HUNTS MAN