Portland Challenger_1952-10-03

\ Page Two WILLIAM A. HILLIARD EDITOR AND PUBLISHER TED BURGER MANAGING EDITOR RICHARD BOGLE JR. ASSOCIATE EDITOR PORTLAND CHALLENGER ]. D. McCowen To Wed Soon John D. (J. D.) McCowen, for– mer football star of Oregon and a Portland resident for about five years, but now at home in Long Beach, California, is to wed Miss Jean Carrol Cummings soon in the Angel city. She is the daugh– ter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cum- Friday. October 3, 1952 News In Brief By William Wright 3300 North Williams Avenue, Poriland 12. Oregon MUrdock 4092 mings of Los Angeles. ----------------------------~~------------ Off to Camp Stoneman after spending a few days at home with his parents is Ellis Casin. Formerly stationed in the air force at Spokane, he is waiting shipment overseas ... Back from a ten-day jaunt to Los Angeles is Mrs. Juliet Banks where she visited her father and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Hilliard ... While in L. A. she visited with the Lands, former Published every other Friday in Portland, Oregon. The Chal– lenger is not responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or photographs. Urban League Rolls On Portland's Urban League deserves much credit for the energetic and hard work it has done in bringing to our city a plane of integrated living that has won the recognition of the entire country. Without a doubt Portland's Urban League branch has the qualified, competent leadership that the entire city can point to with pride. Look at the honors won by our local league delegates at the national Urban League convention held in Cleveland re– cently. Their capable leadership won the plaudits of their fel– low Urban League colleagues and put Portland on the map as being one of the most active and advanced cities in the field of race relations of any city its size in Amerca. The far-sightedness of Edwin C. Berry, E. Shelton Hill, John H. Holley and Mark A. Smith is to be commended. Here are leaders who realize the value of human rights. Men who realize that human rights exist prior to and independent of constitution and laws. The Urban League of Portland has taken the stand that human rights are natural r 1 ights of mankind, and rightly so. For only in the realistic, broad-minded thinking of free-mind– ed men can we obtain the ultimate desire and true end of American democracy. The Portland branch recognizes the fact that we can't have forms of segregation existing among the populace, con– tradictory to the laws of the land, and expect to have a united citizenry. It is with these thoughts in mind that they have gone ahead liberally and fought to obtain and maintain a de– cent strata of living for segregated groups in our community, broadening their experiences here so that they may prove beneficial to the nation as a whole. Men like Peter Gantenbein, Lawson McCall and Abe Cohn, to name a few, have all been instrumental in advocating integration as the only mean~ to peaceful living among men of different color. The Urban League is doing its .job, and doing it well; membership to this organization is another step forward in cementing real American democracy. Citizens Otherwise Just about anywhere the potential voter goes today he's apt to see advertisements in one form or another reminding him to register. These little forget-me-nots may take the form of magazine articles, car cards, posters, hand bills or even edi– torials. Regardless of this, however, it looks as though about two-fifths of the potential voters are still going to forget. During the last November election period only slightly more than half to the potential voters registered and the sit– uation for this November doesn't seem to be shaping up to be much better. This editorial is a little late to be enlisting registrants since the deadline for utilizing this Democratic privilege, Saturday, October 4, is nigh. Just in case, though, this editorial would like to take the opportunity to urge all those of you who haven't registered to do something about it if possible. Go right now to your local fire station or to the Court House. Too Few Votes for Locals Concerned now with voting we are appalled to learn that during the last November election period only about one third of the local voters cast a single vote for a local candidate, al– though voting for the national candidates. Without careful investigation it would be wrong to ven– ture an opinion as to just what type of officeholders, national or local, are the most important to the urban individual but from here it would seem to be a draw. It is certilin that proper Democratic functioning calls for efficient administrators at both levels, and that any voter neglecting to signify his choice of local candidates is just as guilty, un-Democratic and unde– serving as the individual, otherwise a citizen, who neglects to register. McCowen is a product of Long Portlanders Dorothy, June and Beach schools, where he was out- Marian, and the Rev. and Mrs. son and sons Jimmie and Robbie standing in athletics. He attend- Browning C. Allen, past minis- Jr. are back home after a month's t f B h I AME h h visit to Houston, Texas, and Ab- ed the University of Oregon and er o et e c urc . beville, Louisiana, where they Portland State college, major- Lawrence Maddox, 3344 S. E. visited the youngsters' grand- ing in physical education. Yamhill street, fell from a lad- parents. The Robinsons, 27 N. E. der while painting his home and Cook street, motored all the way. While residing in Portland he broke his arm ... Mr. and Mrs. was addmitted into the Kapp&. Alpha Psi fraternity. His bride to be is a member of Alpha Kap– pa Alpha. Miss Cummings attended the University of California at Los Angeles and is currently em– :rloyed as a physical therapist at Kabat Kaiser, In 1949 she was elected Kappa Alpha Psi sweet- heart. LaWTence Campbell Jr. are set– tled in their new Jeanette apart– ment at 2322 N. Williams ave- nue..They formerly lived in the Parkside Homes project in north Portland. Saturday night they gave a house-warming party and invited friends over for a night of re– !axation and fun. Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Robin- Jeff Mother Keeps Active As Member of PTA Council Holding an interesting office in names in alphabetic order are the Portland Council of Parent from Rigler school through Wood– Teacher Association is Mrs. Ald- stock. ridge Johnson, who is one of Just now the Council is occu– six members-at-large for the ;Jied with acquainting member Council. associations with activities relat- Each of these six members-at- ed to the United Fund drive. ~arge is assigned to one of the ~ix junior vice-presidents of the Council. Her duties are to assist that vice-president by keeping in close touch with the 14 pres– idents of PTAs in as many dif– ferent grade and high schools, to advise them of the latest devel- opments in council affairs. Mrs. Johnson will be assistant to Mrs. J. J. Guard. During their :1ear working together Mrs. John– son will be contacing officers of the PTA in the 14 schools whose Mrs. Johnson has had five busy years in PTA work at Boise grade school. She served that school as president in 1952. She was chairman of publicity for the Council in 1950, and last year ~he was a delegate from Boise to the PTA convention in Pen– dleton. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson reside at 623 N. Morris. They have two daughters, Harriett and Joan, who are in their freshman year at Jefferson high school. On the Presidential Beat Eise·nhower, Stevenson Hit Trail To Win and Maintain Supporters In his strongest statement yet, minoritywise, Eisenhower came out recently in a speech to Indian– apolisites promising, if elected, to wipe out the "last vestige" of racial segregation in Washing– ton, D. C. He also went on record in this same speech as being dedicated to the improvement of the racist condition in 17 southern states. Since then, having become em– broiled in the "revenue disputes," he has not committed himself again this strongly. Of late he has been generally tight-rope walking in the South. Stronger in the East Eisenhower seems to be a good deal more popular among Ne– groes and Negro leaders in the East than here, receiving much more active support. One Negro editor, Marcus C. Stewart, of the Indianapolis Recorder, told Ike that Negroes would support him. "Discrimination is criminally stupid," the general says, but still he offers no solution to the problem. On the question of the filibuster he is equally undecid– ed. Also the Republican presi– dential candidate remains pat in his opinion that comP.ulsory law will not break the bars. Since his California campaign tour the Negro press has extoll– ed the praises of Stevenson, call– ing him, particularly on the West coast, the undoubted choice. Now back in Springfield, Adlai is preparing to go east in the wake of Eisenhower. It is con– ceivable that the Democratic presidential candidate might make his strongest plea for civil rights on this leg of his cam– paign and what is to happen should be interesting. In Los Angeles recently Adlai made a very encouraging speech. He seems to have cleared away any doubt as to his interest and willingness to advance the cause for equal rights legislation. Wants r'ghts legislation He said: 'We must, by effec– tive legislation, insure equal op– portunities for fair employment for citizens of all colors and creeds." Equally encouraging was this demonstration of insight and conviction to the Los Angeles audience: "You are not going to clean up crime and corruption until you clean up American civ– ic and political life. And who is going to do that? You are or it isn't going to be done . . . " Heard the other day that Em- ery Barnes' father-in-law is plan– ning to set him up in business ... Mark Smith pulled a boner at the recent Urban League meet– ing last week when he comment– ed on the entertainment of the recent national teague confer– ence. Smith said that he even saw "Luke Easter and his Cleve– land Indians play ball." I am under the impression that it's AI Lopez and his Cleveland Indians. Or why couldn't it have been Bob Lemon and his Cleveland Indians, why the emphasis on Big Luke? (Could be because he is a Negro). Mr. and Mrs. W. G. AnJ:hony, 1524 S. E. 32nd place, are taking a trip to Denver, Kansas City, To– peka and Troy (Kansas), Omaha, Oklahoma City and St. Louis, where they will visit with friends and relatives. Cliff Banks drove down to Los Angeles to pick up his wife last week and on the way home had to lay over all day in Klamath Falls because his car blew a rod. Couldn't get car fixed in time to return home for U.P. to Chi– cago, so he had to put wife and daughter on S. P. Shasta Day– light and make train ride home in order to make UP trip. Notice the rash of restaurants going up now on Williams ave– nue? Cooking biz must be on up– swing. Public school teacher took first grade class on fie'ld trip to local dairy and a little Caucasian boy chose a Negro youngster as his partner. When little Caucasoid returned home he told mother of trip and little Negroid partner, ',vhereupon his mom calls teacher and explains that "although she is not prejudiced" she doesn't want incident to happen again! Best thing for mom to do is en– roll her pet in private school. Teacher concluded to mom that no matter what control they iry to take over youngsters, the kids have a way of choosing their friends in a manner regardless of skin color. H. J. Belton Hamilton calls Portland Challenger and leaves this message "I am not married to anyone and I have no inten– tions of getting married to the lady referr~d to (Miss Alvema Oneal)." Mrs. Letitia Brock is off on an extensive trip that will eventual– ly take her to New York City ;l.nd the nation's capitol. Last year 'Mrs. Brock visited Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. Overheard expansion move– ment: Father L. 0. Stone of St. Phillips Parrish is reportedly having a home built in the west hills and said home is supposedly being designed by a Portland– reared architest DeNorval Un– thank. Jr. Bill Carrington is now attend– ing Lincoln university in Jeffer– son City, Missouri, where he is on the football team. ...