Chicagoans Ask Equal Rights for Race on Municipal Beaches Form Committee to Combat Growing Discrimination on Lake Front
FIRST PERIOD CLOSED WED. NIGHT; MISS MAY JANE REDIX LEADING The first period of the School Children's Campaign closed Wednesday night at 8 o'clock with a boom. The children showed remarkable progress the last few days of the period and there was quite a rush the last day. Interest has been very keen from the start and the chlldren have proved that they were hustlers. The close of the first period changed the standing of a number of the contestants. Miss Chequeta Donscomb of Providence, entered the ranks this week with a determination to win. Miss Edmonia Jankson of Louisville also added her name to our list. Miss Mary Jane Redix, who had not made a single report jumped in the lead with our hustler Moxley running her a close second. [First?] Period Closes September 9 Only a few more weeks and the School Children's Campaign will have passed into history. It all depends on you as to where you will stand at the close. The field is large, there are still many who do not subscribe  for the paper, but will be glad to do so if you only ask them. From now until the end there must be 100 percent cooperation.. It means much to win in a competition of this kind. It proves who your friends are, what qualities you possess. Get busy--Get votes--Make a Report Each Week--its up to you to Win. The standing of contestants at close of First Period is as follows: Mary Jane Redix--Cerulean School, Cerulean...6,500 Thomas Earl Moxley--State St. High, Bowling Green...6,000 Cyrus A. Morris--Central High, Louisville...5,000 Alberta Foster--Central High, Louisville...4,500 Eloise Spaulding--Lincoln School Louisville...3,000 Theodore Herring--29th Street School, Louisville,...2,500 Anna Emery--S. Taylor Coleridge Taylor School, Louisville...2,500 Chequeta L. Dunscomb, Rosenwald High School, Providence...1,500 Annie Lee Rodgers--Mary B. Talbert School Louisville...1,500 John Mason--Central High Louisville...1,000 Llitie Mae Hicks--Dunbar High Nicholasville,...1,000 Edmonia J  ackson--Booker T. Washington, Louisville...1,000 Bessie Hughes--Madison Departmental, Louisville...1,000 Dorothy Russell--Madison Departmental, Louisville...500 Anita Mattingly--St. Augustine School, Louisville...500 William Caldwell--Madison Departmental, Louisville...500 Harrison B. Shaffer, Central High...500 Ardier Wilson--S. Coleridge Taylor School, Louisville...500 Virginia Dickerson, Whittier School Blue Diamond...500 -- Miss Beulah L. Embry who has been spending her summer vacation in Miwlaukee, Wis., and Chicago has returned to Frankfort where she will attend school at K. S. I. C. -- Mrs. J. E. Buckner, wife of Lawyer Buckner, is making an extensive mo- trip through the East.
18 Hard Years for Another's Crime
Negro Serves White Man's Term
Guilty White Confesses After Negro Has Done Eighteen Years
K.S.I.C.  READY FOR OPENING Old students returning and new students coming for the first time to Kentukcy State Industrial College this fall, will find comfortable, well lighted and congenial quarters to house them and a strong able faculty to instruct them. The new dormitory for girls has been completed and is ready for occupanry. Repairs have been made on the boys' dormitory which have made it comfortable and congenial also. The old frame dormitory, formerly used by students, has been rehabilitated and will provide comfortable quarters for ldy teachers and also two room apartments for families. Natural gas has been installed not only in the new girls' dormitory but also in Hume Hall, Recitation Hall and in all the teachers' cottages. Equipment is being ordered for the Science Laboratory, Home Economics Department and Department of Agriculture. Courses have been added in Physical Culture, Dramatic Art and Commercial work which will be open to students this fall. The faculty  has been considerably strengthened in that every old member has increased his knowledge by attending summer school and strong additions have been made. School will open September 11th and, from the large number of applications received, it is believed that all space will be taken.
Scheme To Aid Race Trade
Plan To Link Grocers in Country-Wide Chain To Spur Up Growth
Delegates to National Business League Scheme Submitted by Albion Holsey
PROF. FOUSE AT TEACHER'S ASS'N. The National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools as well as the National Parent-Teachers' Congress held their annual meeting this year in Jackson, Miss., July 27th - August 2, 1929. The Congress has made wonderful progress during the three years of its existence, numbering now over 14,000 members and closing with a balance of $645. The National Teachers' Association held its 26th annual session in the same city with representatives from 14 states. Many distinguished white visitors attended every session and added much by way of inspiration and good will. Among this number was Prof. L. N. Taylor of Kentucky, of the department of education of Kentucky, who as usual was a great asset to the meetings. While Prof. W. H. Fouse was the official representative from Kentucky there were, however, the following educators in attendance: Prof. D. H. Anderson, President W. K. I. C., Paducah; Dean H. S. Osborne, Paducah; and Dean James Bond, N. S. I. C  ., Frankfort and Miss Essie Dortch Mack of Louisville, who represented Kentucky at the National Parent-Teacher session. Perhaps the most outstanding new feature of the Association was the work attempted by the committee on "research" under the immediate supervision of Mr. Leo M. Feverot of New Orleans. This committee sought information relative to Negro education in Southern States as it related to inequalities and to note the consequences of these inequalities. Miss Fannie C. Williams of New Orleans made a display of graphs showing the retardation of several cities in Louisiana. The work done in Florida was shown on a large map indicating the amount of money spent in each county of the state for Negro education. A very unique report of the educational situation in Kentucky was given by Prof. Fouse by means of graphs and tables which showed in a striking way the retardation of several cities in Kenthcky. The facts gathered seemed to show that the state is constantly losing an excessive number of the best citizens of the state on account of the inferior educational opportunities offered ambitious colored students seeking higher training for citizenship and service. An The excessive exodus of Negroes from the farms to urban centers is due largely to educational inequalities. For the same reason the colored schools of the state have a very heavy percentage of retardation which costs the state hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Mr. Faverot was highly pleased with the reports of the committee and work will continue along the same lines for the coming year Dr. Mordecai M. Johnson, president of Howard University, was elected president of the Association. Kentucky was represented on the rostra of officers by Prof. W. H. Fouse and President D. H. Anderson as members of the Executive Board. The Association will meet next year at Petersburg, Va. The place of meeting was by a unanimous vote at the invitation of Dr. F. B. Gandy, president of Virginia State College. Dr. Gandy is one of the outstanding educators of the country and a charter member of the Association. -- Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Oliver are n Canada. They will return early in September.
University Issue Bobs Up Again HUGHLETT WRITES OPEN LETTER ON UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE Quotes Law But Seeks Light On Situation From Those Who Might Know In the Courier-Journal Point of View of August 9, there appeared an article, "Negroes and the University of Louisville," by "A Colored Student," in which he states: "I think Louisville's University should open its doors to colored students, especially in those professional departments such as pharmacy, dentistry and medicine, since there is no institution of that kind in the state for Negroes," etc. I was glad to know that there was at least one person thinking on this subject, but I fear that the writer of that article had not though deep enough. Such a plea as he makes is impossible, as is shown by Article 187 of the Constitution of the State of Kentucky. which reads, "In distributing the school funds no distinction shall be made on account of race or color, and separate schools for white and colored children shall be maintained" Kentucky Statutes, Section 4526, provides a penalty for any violation of the same. It is not my intention here to argue the right or wrong of this portion of the Constitution. but to meet the situation as it is, until such a law is repealed. The citizens of Louisville, under these conditions, have made a gesture in the right direction. Some time ago the voters of Louisville settled a bond issue giving to the University of Louisville funds with which its needs could be met Today there stands on the campus a group of buildings that we are proud of. Out of this fund there was to be used money for the erection of buildings that the Negro students might have a chance to get higher education here in Kentucky. Please let it be understood that I am begging for nothing. The administrators of this fund owe these buildings to the Negro citizens. Just why they have not kept faith with the voters in this matter is past me. Someone writing on the subject some time ago compliments the administrators for the splendid way in which they have bandied affairs. I can't see any splendid thing about any person getting money with which a certain thing is to be done, and years pass without any serious effort being made to do that thing. It may be well for the administrators of school funds to account to its citizens before another bond issue is launched as I understand such a move is about to be made, which cannot be supported by men and women who believe in justice and fair play. Daniel J. Hughlett. Editor's Note.--The Leader reprints the above article because of its merit and its interest to our people.
Liberia Making Rapid Strides Forward, Dr. Taylor Says
CONNELL--JONES Miss Ollie Connell and Mr. Gaston Jones were quietly morried Wednesday, August 14. -- Basket meeting all day Sunday at Old Folk's Home, 30th and Greenwood. Come and help us.
CHILDREN IN PARK PAGEANT Two hundred children from the different playgrounds presented their Annual Pageant last Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The children presented, "Aladdin" as told in the famous Arabian Nights. John McWhorter from Sheppard Park was Aladdin while Miss Ethel Simms from Ballard Park was the charming princess. These two, the royal attendants, flower dancers, the Egyptian sword dancers, the heralds, magevans, acrobats and maidens were arrayed in the styles and colors becoming their rank and role. The pageant presented to give a summary of the season's work on the playgrounds, was written and planned by Miss Dorothea Nelson, assistant director of public recreation. The children were prepared for the play by Misses Lavinia Neal, Amelia Sawyer, June Givens, Mrs. Ida Warwick and Messrs. W. H. Kean, Jesse Lawrence and Edw. Oates, under the direction of C. W. Sedwick, supervisor of the Negro playgrounds. Jordan's orchestra furnished the music for the occasion.