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.1 1 4 .1: 1 41 3 10 TH PIHIIURCH COURIER AfrU 21, 196 Horizon ly P. PRAniS Jobs Waiting would you do If a good Job came up and slapped you in the lace? Are you prepared to say that you would turn the other cheek and embrace the job? Julius Thomas of the National Urban League, who has done so much resou rceful i neerine in the placing of Negroes in new jobs, is findinn it more and more difficult to find Negroes who are pre pared to "embrace" the Jobs which are OR a UliEM. Mr. Pratt 7 THE JOBS of today and the Jobs of tomorrow require training. They require brainpower and its application to challenging tasks which are in the very nature of our times.

From time to time, I have indicated the existence of jobs FOR MEN AND WOMEN WITH PROPER SKILLS, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE. Responses I have received have not been too encouraging. Most inter individuals have pursued a variety of nondescript occupations, but nothing to qualify them to say more than that they have worked HARD and LONG. This week I am using this column to "advertise" another JOB OPPORTUNITY. Color doesn't count.

Trainings does. The United States Patent Office needs men who can earn $7,570 a year, 5 years after graduation from college and further advancement Is possible up to $13,760 a year. The jobs are open to men and women between the ages of 18 and 36 and there are no age limitations for veterans. No civil service examination is required. But for appointment without examination you must have a college degree (A) in any field of engineering or applied science; (B) with a chemistry major, having 26 semester hours, in chemistry, or (C) with a physics major, having 21 semester hours in physics, or (D) with any other major which Included 40 combined semes ter hours in engineering, chemistry and physics; or 23 combined semester hours in chemistry and physics.

If you can qualify under the above terms, you can start IMMEDIATELY, at $4,345 a year; after six months your pay will be at the rate of $4930 a year; a year later at the rate of $5,440 a year if you merit it, and eighteen months later, at the rate of $6,390 a year. There are generous provisions for vacations and the educational facilities for Improving yourself for advance men are practically unmatched. These jobs are waiting for YOU TO TAKE THEM. IF YOU have the qualifica tlons, all you have to do is to write to the COMMISSIONER Cf PATENTS, WASHINGTON, D. state vour qualifi cations and ask for an interview.

If you want any questions answered, he will answer them. The Commissioner of Patents doesn't care whether you are white or colored, male or female. He needs qualified workers. He can't use you if you have majored in HISTORY, or ART, 7te MMELUKBS, A PLASTY OP PALACE SLAVES RULED EGYPT FOR 561 YEARS (1250 181US0ME' WERE EUROPEAN; OTHERS UNMIXED AFRICAN. IN islam rr WAS NOT UNCOMMON FOR A CAPABLE i N.

4 1 vr i in ill 'err i mP mi MA tec SLAVE TO BECOME RULER. COLOR WAS NO BAR. Ml' Vi Sir. Rogers or DRAMA, or if you have simply gone in for the "humanities." They're Important, too, but hey don't lead to mast jobs except in teaching and social work and the church. lui UWUTAT IONS NEW V0RK CITY.

NATIVE OF VIRGINIA AND GRADUATE OF LINCOLN WORKED AS REGISTERED NURSE FOR the new Vork crry mission FOR 4a YEARS, (1910 1952). SHE VISITED THE SICK AND Mccnv nc All THEIR 56 HOMES. AIDED IN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WARDS. MATERNITY JiTs. 111 nnr rkii nA IK1IC I AND MADE LIFE BRIGHTER FOR ALL.

MOW RETIRED. 1814 1868 VALET, CONFIDENTIAL MESSENGER. AND INSEPARABLE COMffcNION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. GOOD NATURE0 AND WITH A KEEN SENSE OF HUMOR. HE LINCOLN DUR INQ SOME OF IN6 UNCOLN U5EP TO HIM" AND ASK HIS OPINION ON MATTERS AFFEC states to declare on what side they are as was done in 1861.

At least thirty seven of the forty eight would stand with him and the Supreme Court ruling. If that thirty seven show some determination, how lone would the recalcitrant eleven hold out? WILL THE present generation of Americans get together and take an effective step to end an evil that has plagued America for 250 years an evil that has diverted this nation from its proclaimed ideal like a man who sets himself a high goal, but has never been able to reach It because he hasn't the strength of will and the courage to overcome the one lefect that keeps him from it In spite of the stirring declaration that all men are born free and equal, slavery was Written into the Constitution. In Article 1 Negroes are classified as three fifths of a human being. This starting off on the wrong foot caused innumerable evils, as the great Civil War. After the Civil War there was a for a good start again.

Bufthe victorious North fumbled. It chose white unity and trade in th South ratlier than justice. 'The' Supreme JH 1 jmmm TING SUVERy. HE WATCHED OVER LINCOLN'S HEALTH AND PROTECTION TH0U6H OF NEGRO WAS VERV LIGHT WITH LIGHT CHESTNUT HAIR. HE LOOKED WHITER THAN UNCOLN, WHO HIMSELF; SAVS HE WAS DARK WITH COARSE HAIR.

THE MAMELUKES WERE MASSACRED BV MEHEMET AU, WHO PENNED THEM IM THE PALACE. ONLY OME CHIEF ESCAPED. HE LEPT HIS HORSE OVER THE WALLS. History Shows By j. a.

BLUNTLY speaking Presi dent Eisenhower's and Attorney General Browne's proposed civil rights measures are a wasie of time. Southern juries would pass on the violators and acquittal would be certain. Eisenhower's plan to call the Gov ernors of the states together if Congress does not give him the 1 a he asks for, ir equally futile. What would a South ern Governor do ith his political future at stake? I suggest this instead. We have a United Nations for world problems, why not a union of our states for this domestic problem? Let Eisenhower ask the Legislatures of the Court with its jim crow ruling, undid the sacrifices made in the war.

And the immense irony of the whole thing was though it was the Negro who had provided the balance of power that saved the Union Lincoln said so several times: 'The colored population Is the great available force for saving the Union," he wrote yet, the very element from whom the Negroes rescued the Union, came back to Congress and were openly imitted to damn them and work against them them Benjamin Tillman of most execrable memory. ANOTHER SETBACK occurred In 1913, when fJie Solid South as the result of cheating the Negro of the triumphed and brought Wcxxlrow Wilson to the White House. The South has been in the saddle since. It Is whenever the Democrats are in power in Congress. Here, again, but for the race question there would have been no Wilson 'to take America into World War I with all the slaughter and mess that has followed since.

In any Ta.se, something will have to be dono. When Thomas Jefferson saw how Negroes were being treated, he taid, "I My View ly BENJAMIN E. MAYS "Do Negroes Want to be I HAVE reluctantly, come to the conclusion that most Negroes do not want to be free if they have to do anything to get it It is an old story, but a true one that freedom has to be won. It has never been given, and it never will be given to one on a silver platter. If freedom could given to one on a silver a ter.

It would soon be taken away, because it takes eternal vigilance to keep freedom and such persons would lose it Dr. Mays Atlanta is a great city. We boast about the culturj of Atlanta Negroes and we talk about the beautiful homes that they own. We, here, in Atlanta, are held up as a model for Negroes in all parts of the country. And yet I am going to reveal some startling facts about Atlanta and Georgia Kegroes.

THERE ARE something like 94,700 'Negroes in Atlanta and the Atlanta area 18 years of age and over. Only 19,600 are registered voters. This leaves 75,100 eligible to register and vote, but who are not registered. In the State of Georgia there are 2,600,000 white people eligible to vote. One million four hundred thousand are registered.

There are 1,200,000 Ne groes In Georgia eligible to vote and only 90,000 registered. To state it another vay, less than 8 per cent of the Negroes are registered, but over 53 per cent of the white people are registered. In Atlanta only 20 per cent of the Negroer eligible fo vote are registered. As strange as it may seem, there are public school teachers and college and university professors who are not registered. There are property owners who are.

not registered. In fact, I learned on good authority that there are some wealthy Negroes who do not vote in Atlanta. I could understand it a little better if Negroes in small towns and rural areas did not register and vote because of the constant intimidations made by white people threatening them if they vote. But this Is not the case in Atlanta. Negroes can register and vote freely in the city of Atlanta.

I DO not argue that the ballot will bring the millennium to Negroes. I do know, however, that whenever Negroes vote in large numbers they are treated with more respect. A voteless people is a hapless people. Negroes are going to be kicked around politically, economically and socially for a long, long time. They will be kicked around less if they register and vote.

Even civil rights gained through the Federal courts will prove useless without, the wise use of the ballot. It seems to me that people who have as little as Negroes would seize every opportunity to increase their status. Do Negroes want to be free? tremble for my country when I reneci mat uoa is just." Had he lived thirty five years longer, he would have seen Americans engaged in awful slaughter over it. And those with a sense of justice do tremble today. The peril is no longer national but world wide "The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy" Russia's most effective weaoon..