WHITE AND NEGRO STUDENTS DISCUSS PROBLEM. FLETCHER MARTIN FORUM SPEAKER. TELLS MIXED AUDIENCE IF YOU DON'T DO DEMOCRACY YOU CAN'T HAVE IT. Fletcher P. Martin, city editor of the Louisville Defender and former war correspondent, who began his newspaper career with the Louisville Leader, was the principal speaker at a round table discussion of the Negro problem at Male High School, last Wednesday evening. The forum was sponsored by the Interracial Youth for Action Committee. An interesting article about the meeting appeared in The Courier-Journal of last Thursday morning as written by Eve Mark, which is quoted in full as follows: "It was said in black and white at Louisville Male High School Auditorium last night. In its first open forum for the discussion of the Negro problem, the interracial Youth for Action Committee proved that it may be young in years but not ideas, that it may go off on a tangent once in a while but that's the exception and not the rule, and that to give  the lie to ancient prejudices, it can be brutally frank. "After Fletcher Martin city editor of the Louisville Defender, spoke and a round table of four youths answered the questions concerning racial problems, the audience of an almost equal number of Negroes and whites entered the discussion and without veiling sentiments spoke on subjects previously taboo in polite drawing-room conversations.
Students Answer Each Other. "Proof of the need for the meeting was shown when a white high school student asked questions rooted in prejudices, and proof that democracy was working in Male Auditorium was shown when the student (Read the Leader's editorial, "A Negro Newspaper's Changing Policy," on page 4) was answered not by the speaker but by a dozen fellow students, attempting to show the fallacies of his views. "Martin, who said he spoke 'from the heart,' and his delivery and words testified to it, emphasized that "democracy is great but if you don't do it you can't have it.' (Continued on page 4)
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Painter And Designer Vernon Winslow
DISCUSS HIGH SCHOOL, HOSPITAL The new Central High School, education in general, and the Red Cross, were among the things discussed before a fair crowd at Broadway Temple last Sunday afternoon. The meeting, sponsored by the Jefferson County Sunday School Association was opened by Rev. D. J. Hughlett, director of the Association, who introduced A. E. Meyzeek, chairman of the education committee. After a few pointed remarks, Mr. Meyzeek presented Mrs. Hortense Young, member of the committee as mistress of ceremonies Mr. Meyzeek, Mrs.Young and the principay speakers, George D. Wilson, R. S. Stout and Mrs. Barbar Rehms, white registered nurse, pointed out the differential between the opportunities and advantages offered white and colored people of Louisville in education and hospitalization and they urged that Negroes organize and work together in the effort to better the situation. Mrs. Young, who opposed the proposed location of the new high school building, said that Negroes were not given an opportunity to express themselves in regard to the location, but she said they had an opportunity to say something about the courses to be taught. and that they should get busy about it. She stressed the need of provisions for trade courses. Mr. Wilson using a prepared chart compared the courses taught at the University of Louisville and those taught at Louisville Municipal College. The need of nurse training at Red Cross and the discriminatory practices at the General Hospital against Negro doctors, nurses and colored citizens were pointed out by Mrs. Rehms. Good music was furnished by the Broadway Temple choir.
Daughter Signing Charter Mrs. Portia Pittman
Make New FEPC Plans
Outlines New FEPC Campaign
Wings Over Jordan Back on Airway
Hear Dr. A. D. Muse, the Radio Evangelist at Fifth Street Baptist Church, Sunday, February 24 at 4 p.m.
SURPRISED FRIENDS [Photo] J. E. Hankins Mr. Hankins, who is secretary of the Mammoth Life Insurance Company, surprised his friends last week. That is with the exception of a very few, by going off to New York and getting married. The announcement sent out early this week by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas William Pate, said that their daughter, Jane, was married to Mr. Junius Edward Hankins, Saturday, February 16, in Peekskill, New York.
EPPSE CLOSES HISTORY WEEK The National History Week celebration, closed at Quinn Chapel, Sunday afternoon, with Merl R. Eppse, chairman of the division of History and Social Studies at Tennessee State College, who was the guest speaker. The meeting was presided over by Miss Maude Brown, chairman of the Women's Auxiliary U.S.O. The speaker was introduced by Floyd W. Crawford, instructor at Louisville Municiapl College. Mr. Eppse delivered a strong and interesting adress, subject, "For Value Received I Promise to Pay", through which many historical facts with regard to the Negro were revealed and which was packed full of sound admonitions. He strong ly urged race unity, cooperation among Negroes and genuine faith in God on the part of the educated as well as the unlettered.
THREE GIVEN THREE YEARS EACH Pleading guilty to the charge of breaking into a storehouse of the Federal Land Bank, Samuel Gaines, 929 Ballard; Virgil Bullock 437 S. 15th, and Richard Porter, 1221 W. Madison, were given terms of three years each in Criminal Court last Saturday. The men also pleaded guilty to breaking into the storehouse of Harry Schneider, 659 S. 22nd, but the sentences of five years each were suspended.
WOMAN KILLED BY ESTRANGED HUSBAND Frank Duncan, 1923 Cedar, estranged husband, shot his wife, Mrs. Kita Mae Duncan, to death last Friday morning. Mrs. Duncan was shot in the head and abdomen with a double-barred shotgun. He is being held for murder.
RED CROSS HOSPITAL IS SUBJECT - WHITE WRITER MAKES APPRAISAL - SAYS NEXT SIX MONTHS WILL BE CRUCIAL TIMES FOR INSTITUTION With Red Cross Hospital as his subject, Grady Clay, Jr., Courier-Journal staff writer, said that "the next six months will be crucial times for the Red Cross Hospital, Louisville's only private hospital for Negroes," and his article continued in part as follows: "During those six months, the hospital's biggest question will be answered: 'Can we be recognized and begin training nurses again?" "Since 1936, when recognition by the American College of Physicians and Surgeons was withdrawn, Louisville has trained no Negro nurses. During approximately the same period, the number of Negro doctors in Louisville has dropped from 50 to 33, although the city's population has grown. Medical attention in general has been inadequate. "Thus a better Red Cross Hospital, a small four-building center at 146 S. Shelby, is one of the main hopes of those citizens, white and Ne  gro, who want to improve medical care for Negroes in the Louisville area. New Class Is Goal "It is the hope of Miss Nettie Bealor, Red Cross Hospital director of nurses and principal of the school of nursing at Jewish Hospital, that the hospital's first class of 14 student nurses can begin work next September. "Before such a class can begin, the hospital must be accredited. Before it can be accredited, it must be acceptable to the American Medical Association and to the American College of (Continue on Page 4)
Aroused Over Police Killings
BURNED TO DEATH IN ONE ROOM HOUSE Cristzbelle Mullins, 18, who lived in a one-room house in the rear of 3709 Virginia, was burned to death early last Saturday morning. George Thurman and his sister Mary 19, ecaped from the house. Miss Thurman reported that she was first to discover the fire and aroused her brother and Miss Mullins. Thurman said that the flames enveloped the house before he could rescue Miss Mullins.
Atlanta Police Bypass Negroes