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i ''fHl 1 (The Women 3 'C. TpHERE'S something sad about bathrooms. They're always there, but they're taken for granted, neglected, overlooked. Much thought, enthusiasm and expense go into dressing up bedrooms, living rooms, dens, dining rooms. Even kitchens and hallways get more attention than bathrooms.

The average home maker throws up a fancy shower curtain, lays out bright towels, bath mats and toilet covers and the bathroom is completed. Thereafter, it's just a rpom that must be cleaned and washed down every now and then. None of the loving care is given the. selection of bathroom apparati as is given new drapes or a lounge chair. Never is any appreciation shown by the family for the room that is their most personal and intimate.

No one seems to realize the myriad services offered lay this little unsung room. Where do women rush to weep and wail when they have had big arguments with their husbands? The bathroom. There's no place in the house a woman can cry so fully and also hide her red rimmed eyes than in the bathroom. There too a girl (3Gq8odciI Quo COdI18oo0 Q3I3533 The Kiss of Death! HpHEY1 SAY lightning doesn't strike twice in the same spot, and that theory holds true uv the case of my friend, Percy Greene, talkative editor publisher of a weekly newspaper, the Jackson (Miss.) Advocate. It can be sdid for Brother Greene that he doesn't make the same mistake twice.

Back in 1951, when Paul B. Johnson was in the gubernatorial race in Mississippi, Greene came out editorially in support of Johnson. The voters went to the polls and all but ignored John son. In his defeat, Johnson turned his" evil eyes on Percy Greene. He blamed Percy for his downfall, accusing the editor of "giving him the kiss of death.

Johnson tried again this week. was in a run off takes her love letters and reads and rereads them. There's no other place where she can completely! give herself up to her Pill v1 Mr. Greene election Tuesday with Attorney General J. P.

Coleman, but just before the holding of the statewide election Johnson made it clear that he didn't want Greene's editorial support and warned his fpllowers to beware of "last minute lies." In order that the voters would understand that he didn't want support from any Negro, Johnson emphasized the fact that he's for segregation. Well, if you know Percy Greene, he's not a. man to keep his mouth shut. He came right back and let Johnson know just how he felt about the matter. Percy sat in front of his battered typewriter and knocked out an editorial which added up to this: "Percy Greene is for the winner, no matter who he is, and anyone who says Percy Greene is backing any candidate in the race is guilty of a deliberate and calculated falsehood.

It Backfired in Atlanta A similar situation took place in Atlanta several years ago. Atlanta Negro voters were determined to throw their support behind a certain candidate, but didn't want to give him the kiss of death by letting the white folks know whom they were backing. They held a mass meeting the night before the election in Big Bethel Church on Auburn Avenue They agreed on a candidate and asked every person present to pass the word to other colored voters. It was a big secret. Even the Atlanta Daily World, the Negro dally agreed not to publish the selection.

But, it turned out to be no secret. The white folks had sent their maids and cooks to the meeting. Next morning, the news was all over town. Even the daily papers had the story. The candidate backed by the Negro voters lost the election.

NAACP Atty. Oliver W. Hill of Richmond, Va. has decided to Jceep as a souvenir the wooden cross 'left on his front yard by Kluxers. Charles (ChucJO Smith, public relations expert for Florida A.

and M. University Tallahassee, and pretty wife, Norma, are vacationing at her native home, aWhere the West Begins Fort Worth, Tex." Congratulations! This comer offers its congratulations to Coyness L. Ennix, only Negro member of the Nashville (Tenn.) school board, who last week stood alone in his stand for Immediate desegregation. The white members outvoted him1 8 to 1 to continue segregation in the 'Nashville city schools for an other year. The stand taken by Ennix was much different from that taken by Dr.

Rufus Clement, only Negro member of the Atlanta (Ga.) school board. Dr. Clement, a university president, went along with the white board members for continued segregation, at least for another Dr. James O. Hopson, noted dramatist and educator of Talladega College, was at his best Saturday evening in the role of host to scores of friends in the Pittsburgh (Pa.) home of his sister and brother in law, the Nathaniel Dandridges.

It's an annual affair and this time Dr. Hopson featured the operatic recordings of the great Marian Anderson. The event opens with cocktails and the usual munching of hors d'oeuvres, then the recordings, and finally a big steak supper. The Unsung Room letters and be assured that no one will barge in on her arid destroy her mood. In fact, a great deal of reading is done in the bathroom.

Who knows to what extent the tiny, room has made cultural contributions to society. This reading in the bathroom habit jhas grown to suchxan extent that a number of manufacturers are offering special! book and magazine racks for the bathroom. Most women puton their make up in the bathroom. The light is usually brighter and more direct there. And it offers privacy for putting on eye lashes and touching up dyed hair.

Anyway, what woman can do an effective make up job with someone standing over her staring? No one yet has invented any better way to relax than in a bath tub. What with bubbles, ointments and oils floating around in the tub, a woman can really By frhe Scribe i 27, 1955 THE PITTSBURGH COURIER 9f DARK LAUGHTER By OLLIE HARRINGTON by Evelyn Cunningham 1 relax, and at the same time capture a sense "of well being. If she wants to be stimulated and feel young and healthy, she needs only jump under a brisk shower. Where else but in the bathroom can a woman so pamper her whims and moods Then there's an aloneness in the bathroom that can be found in no other place. Being utterly and completely alone at times can be one of the most wondrous of human experiences.

And it is a necessary human experience. The bathroom is also the place where most people smoked their' first cigarette. How many kids sneaked into the bathroom, locked the door, opened the window wide and puffed away on a cigarette while fanning the air with the other hand. How many kids looked to the bathroom for this little sinning because they thought they could get away with it. And how many unhappy parents have marched into the bathroom and been smacked in the face with the smell of tobacco.

It's a wonderful little room, the bathroom. Somebody ought to pay homage to it and acknowledge its position as the real seat of the family group. patty jo (Singer wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm aibblemasiid! CHICAGO South Siders are puzzled over the! proposed opening of another swank imbibing bistro by one of this city's blonde tressed figures According to reports she was supposed to be minus "bread" up to the first of this year. i CHICAGO Reports have it that a well known movie projectionist, who also is a biggie in the Elks, and his lovely spouse have hit the melting stage. i Residents up and around Pittsburgh's latest housing development are turning up their noses at the frequent trips of the hoosegow wagon, in and out of Belmar Gardens with passengers.

But they were shocked, in turn, when one of the area's beige gentry played polo with a pal's head, a red brick, and a baseball bat, as he chased the victim for one half mile down Oberlin Street at three in the afternoon. i LOS ANGELES African Prince Madupi, whose name was linked in the sensational magazine article which prompted Doris Duke to file suit for $3,000,000, reportedly told a friend that "Confidential" has been making overtures to him for a payoff settlement! i HOLLYWOOD Look for Marie (Mrs. King) Cole to come up with a terrific singing act which will be previewed at the swank Ciro's on the famed Sunset Strip, with Nat planning to fly in for her long planned debut. i I PITTSBURGH That popular female singer of songs, who continually hangs around this city, does so for more reasons than one, the main one being the handsome mortician she "took" from Ids wife and kiddies, i WASHINGTON, Pa. Dinah Washington is preparing a suit against a in this Pennsylvania village for violation of the civil rights law.

The "queen" and nine guests were refused service, recommended to Howard Johnson's Turnpike Restaurant and almost "escorted" from the premises. i PITTSBURGH Pretty ofay girls in and around the steel city are seen more and more with tan escorts, some of them say, to get away from their dull living. The tan boys say the ofays know the real gone spots and make life more interesting from all angles. Oddly enough, the largest number of thegirls are from exclusive sections of town, being members of exclusive familic" i WINDSOR, Canada Joyce Bryant's act was sabotaged during her recent engagement in these parts. Second week of hfer run was with no, billing (they took' her picture off the marquee and all ads out of the papers) reason rujmored to be that "she drew too many NegroeSj" to the swank spot.

An eye witness said the owners may have wanted her to go, but the waitresses did not. Their pockets jingled with loot received in tips from the Cadillac driving, mink stoled Negro customers. "Why it's downright disgusting Mom's YOUTH cream can't io this to me imagine growing six years for nothingl" 1 pj fci i a "TffSMgg fWi V. VUAL'ZrtfOl 1 mmm mx mm mm "Well, to tell the truth, Mom, I dont know what its 'sposed to be myself, but that'swKaf the Government learned me on the Gl Bill and not only that, but the white folks buy. 'em up just as fast as I can get the paint dry on "em!" Heard and Overheard Washington By LEVI JOLLEY WASHINGTON An interesting professional career, covering more than twenty years, has been devoted entirely to activities concerned with human relations and emphasizing the integration and adjustment of racial minority groups into various phases of community life.

The possessor of this unique background is Charles C. Beckett, assistant director, racial relations branch of the Public Housing Administrator. The son of the late Rev. and Mrs. Campbell Beckett, he was born on Jan.

23, 1912, at Philadelphia. A graduate of Overbrook High School, Phi ladelphia, and i 1 force University in 1934, he began his career as a visitor in the Phil adelphia County Relief Agency. Mr. Beckett THE; YEAR after graduation from Wilberforce'he became activities secretary of the i 1 1 Community Housed New Haven, Conn. While at the center, he attended school and in 3938, received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Yale University Graduate School after having specialized in social ethics, and sociology.

Shortly afterwards, he was appointed a social worker in the Social Service Division of VVPA at Washington. A few months later, he became industrial sercetary of the New Jersey Urban League at Newark, remaining there until 1940 when he became general sercetary of the Washington Community Center at Hamilton, Ohio. ALTHOUGH MEMBER of respective families had been friends for years and years,) I first met Charlie in 1942 whan he was appointed execu director of the South Broad Street USO Center, a war service agency in Philadelphia. During the five years thit he directed activities of the center, which won acclaim as the cbest in the Quaker City, Mr. Beckett found time to conduct religious services nearby mu tary installations.

With war's end, Mr. Beckett was appoined to the Veterans Administration and shortly after that was selected as executive secretary of the Washington Urban League. With his family in Philadelphia, Charlie accepted appointment as race relations adviser in the Philadelphia field office of the Public Housing Administration. The very next year, 1951, he was promoted to assistant director of the race relations branch of the Public Housing Administration in Washington. Married to the former Rubye R.

Rush on Dec. 30, 1941, they have one daughter, Sydney Ann. An avid reader of the latest books, Charlie is fond of fishing but claims that he has very little time now for the rod and reel. His devotion to duty has won him many commendations and citations from religious and fratenal groups. IN COMMEMORATION of the sixty third birthday of Emperor Haile Selassie which was in July, the Ethiopian Embassy has distributed an eight page magazine type booklet, "This Is Ethiopia." giving a detail outline of the country's progress.

Upon assuming the Regency of Ethiopia in 1916, His Imperial Highness began to reorganize Ethiopia, it is said. A devoted Christian, he is lauded for his stand against Italy at Geneva in 1936. A RENEWED effort by the American Veterans Committee to have Government officials to issue regulations that would end all types of racial discriminati in the District of Columbia is a welcomed movement. It seems that the apathy in pushing this matter can be jointly blamed on the District Commissioners and' the civic groups that fought for the elimination of discrimination here. After winning the first round of the fight in court, the civic groups apparently took recess.

After the death of that grand old warrior for rights, Mr. Mary Church Terrell, seems like those who had fought so valiantly earlier just plain ran out of steam. 1 IN LETTERS to Attorney General Herbert Brownell and the District Commissioners, the AVC points out that the laws of 1869, 1ST0 and 1872 should be and can be made to include all of the District of Columbia instead of the Old City of Washington. The District Commissioner can do this, according to several leza.l advisers, through p.pprovir.g specific regulations Efforts to get the commissioners to enforce the old laws, which prevent racial discrimination in places of public accommodations, Web inaugurated in September, 1953. After fifteen months of discussions with District officials, it was announced that the antidiscrimination laws would be enforced.

Despite this promise, there are a few places in the District of Columbia that con Beat tinue to discriminate yet are not being prosecuted under the old THE APATHY of the Commissioners seems to stem from the fact that constant pressure is not exerted to get them to issue adequate and strong regulations. This column hopes that the administration will take another step by having the Commissioners issue the regulation and put a bit of administrative pressure on the members of the Police Boys Club board of directors who believe that racial discrimination should be continued among young Americans despite the Supreme Court's ruling. S'. Selected son of Mr. and Mrs.

Butler S. Blalcney of Charlotte, N. has been selected fori a ppoi ntment as physical metalurgisf, GS 5, bv fhe Boston Naval Shipyard. majored in mechanical engineering at Tennessee State. A.

and I. University. Virginia Union 2 To Install Prexy RICHMOND, Va. Dr. Samuel DeWltt Proctor, the new president of Virginia Union University, will be inaugurated in ceremonies which will take place in the Belgiaji Building Auditorium, Nov.

BIGGEST tie BEST THE United States plans to send three specialists to Pakistan to improve that com try's airways facilities..