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MABEL ST ALTERS TERRIFIED OF CIIAII6E 0F LIFE? biectrr'itaftsltetef4 a snne tt metirti reief went bet nasbts, senses tessHa. DouY feel yuu are all aionv ra feanrg ths ysnt ct ar Ktr Ne woman ran pueub'y ar.twi ate the hot flsii th 'relinks of clammy roid. And im scatter now hard she trie she eftam eaaset control ii irritability. There med.eine to wkiek sremen, aeaergeiog the bare turned for oa erol relief. Tbe gentle wdi eme snth the gentl rams.

LyJia Pink Ham Tablets. In doctor's teeta. three out of oar women reported relief rxprts Sive "shots. So den iet innecra. frr srorry you.

Ot Lyiia TableU torjay. LVDIA E. PINK HAM Up. 7. If 41 ANNK COG EUAN VVosiingfon in Retrospect HOME AGAIN AFTER the historic 'March for Jobs and Freedom" in Washing ton, D.

I ran now look bark with awe and recall the thrill that I felt over participating in the biggest event of the century. That the march was impressive, even its gira'u st Titn are forced to concede. But wiiethei ii avomplishes its purpose getting Con Kis to pas the President Civil Rights law, is another matter. IT WAS. HOW LVtK, aa enormous suc ress because It atnlihi ane big thine.

It made Negroes more aware of their euni hined strength and drew thrtn closer togeth rr. It aKo showed thai we are aot atone in iHir fight for freedom. There were thcnsands if white who "stood ap to be counted." luting action Instead of mere word to make tbeir meaning more significant. THE MAIU1I was unique in a.wii.er way. It broke down the socalled "caste'' stem whii exists in country Doctors, lawyers and people of all professional fields riarched Utfetlier with little folk and ti)e unemployed men and women of all races, needs and colors.

Perhaps the largest deiega Tin was composed of labor groups Certainly one of the most impressive was the Ladies Garment Workers from New York. The next was the group of clergymen every' faith. Marchers came from all parts of thij coiin try. from as far north as Maine and far t'uth as Florida. Many came fi om ahrr ad.

The UVt Coast. California. Oregon. Wa and Colorado, ser.i over 4i0 strong There as ev en one marcher wearing a sign which irfd: Is there anyone here besides nve frvrn Alaska?" THE EXCITEMENT for me began when I left P1ttdKirjrh' Arena, where the Vat Kins Cole shout. "Sift hts aod Sounds of opened Tuesday ttlshc Not wan tins to grt raitghl ap bi the heaT traffic bmusbt a boat bv the lairna opeeung klgltl cnmd of the heasoa for the Civic Light Opera's King Cole production.

I Wt while the 'King" doing his bw4 set of nttmbers. I wa amaird at the Urge crowd waiting nearby at the areM to board nome IS buses to make the lung trip to Dee tee. AT THE B. O. STATION here in Pittsburgh.

I found a beehive of activity going on. An even Salter crowd than I had left was waiting to get on the train. The train left half hour before the buses Heading the delegation the trait were: Attv. Henry Smith presnient of the Pennsylvania State NAACP: Attr. Byrd R.

Brown. preMdem of the Pitt.shurgh Bralich NAACP. aiid the Rev. Kcicrt Wilkerson. executive direilor of the Pittsburgh Branch NAACP.

Jameo A. iordoh andTiis mife, Martoa, were anumpanied by lrinn nvther. Mrs. Grace Bond of New York, and Pittsburgh a Mrs. W.

T. Poole Dr. and Mrs. ttilnam Orthbert. Connie Randall, Ann Waters.

DeigratU Allen. Sue orsey. daines Bradford. Andrew Yaughn. shrh.rfi.

Boyd WIImjo. Hearr D. i I'm i ou I touch. Gerald Parr, Vivian Wrse. 4a tiraty, Patajr Ware.

Helen Peeler. Bessir lynch. Joy Falk and son. Ted. were also on the train.

There were also a targe delegation younjj pmpie. including Phyllis Moon man and her sister, Justine; Joyce Stewart. knm th Pangborn and year Sharon Wrems. SEVI.KAL IIMSTI.KS took the trai i. including 1 James.

Cox. president the Aii'eg. ienv I niun Baptist ConfereiKe: Father Walter P. 11 Parker of the Church of the "ros s. and the Rev.

Charles H. Fog gie. pas tut of Wesley Center AMEZ Church. Boarding the train in McKeesport. along with my daughter.

Phyl. were Mrs. Lawrence R. DwV.ir.g WKiowof the Ute dcr.tist. and the former PnscilU Wilkes of Dee Cee.

With her wew AU Long a id Maybeile Jtarkes. Genevieve Howard WiUon of Pittsbuj gh and Buffalo, brought her mother with her. Gene vieva was leave early this month for Europe, where she will join her husbana. an Army officer stationed in Germany. This will their second soiourn in that countrv' IT I IMPOSSIBLE to mentioa all of the mi if oa pprssm of both rarrs oa the Pitts iiiiiifiiiivir is 17 Minutes fcvl ONLY 99 SawHWw aW SLACK STAHO Hirr Coioi iuiii the te.o.s cf rv hv ocit.

Ls.4. TtfF rj ptrnr. irr tWi. Iu Nfst. Ult C.H LT ifX ITfct 1 i ci rin llcstfu hr.n LtAJk, pumraui xmf ti imi liC Cr nr bLACs tltAVDia KOT.S 1JC( MOwtsiit twMtaMa ainnlW mm ieo tos pcrocr 'M "rV UBBT CLARK erick, who had gone on an earlier train.

She met the train and man bed into tne station with the Pittsburgh delegation. LaRue is a past regional director of the AKA Sorority, and is president of the East Bio Branch NAACP. here. She is al.so a Girl Friend as is Connie Randall and Marion Joedor. who have already been mentioned here.

A battery; of newspaper photographers and television corn era men met the train, and some along with me. became filled with emotion when the Pittsburgh Student Coordinating Council marched from Uieir coach singing a freedom song. SAW DEE CEE BACHELOR Mhr For sythe in the crowd at the station; also former Couriertto Clifton Cabel! nf the same town. Our headquarters waa the Pirn Lee House, from where I walked to get lo the Washington Monument. One i the first persons that I emountered en route waa Mabel K.

staup ers. 73 year old retired nurse, who was the driving force spearheading the fight to get the nurse Integrated. Formerly of New York, she now resides with her sisVr in Dee Cee. She walked about a mile with the group. With her was Nema Newell of Detroit, who left her vacation Atlantic I hy to joiw tiw Dee Cea marchers.

FROM A DISTANCE I caught a glimpse of Drand Mrs. Kairieth Clemer.ts of Cleveland. He's the new national president of the National Medical Association. I saw thrm in Cleveland a week before the medical convention, and they told me they would fly bails from Los Angeles in time to take their family to the freedom march in Dee Cee. Several oilier Clevelanders were in the march.

Fellow Courierile Woody Taylor. r.o lives ia that cirv gave me the names of a few. THE CLEVELAND CONTINGENT In eluded four city rouneilmea, Charles V. Carr, majority leader of the cousri from the 17th Ward; James BeU of Cleveland's 11th Ward; Warren Gilliam. Ith Ward, and James Williams of the 25th Ward.

Three assistant county prosecutors nf Cleveland were there. They were James Fleming. IJoyd Brown and C. Smith. Dr.

Nathan R. Christopher of CTeve Knd. rations! hoard member of the NAACP, was there, as were Frank Evans. biteraBtion al vfrr president of the CAW; Dr. James E.

Levy, Ohio State NAACP president; Carrie bell J. Cook, head of Job retraining for the city of ievebtnd; Arty. Moses DUon, former member of National Bar Association, and so on, including Anne Hedgrstan of Near York PUTMHKOH'S LMTY sHAW sakl her niotht r. Dr. Julia A.

Baum. research assistant at Cleveland's Western Resene I'niversity. paiii ipat. rt in the rr.arch. Letty.

a talented wuter rn in PittsbuTgh. was unablenoTT" aiiv of She has written a three which Fredr nck Burleigh of the Piayhou.se has promised to read. If lie it. he mav produce it next season At Pl'BLIC RliLATIONS erpert. Ub "bjmark or Lo Angeles, was the eooruiitor fur the Wrsl tmt debgation ef oser 40s.

She bnsW a party for that group after the march Wednesday night at the Stat ier Hll ton. wnk h.4rew.manT. from other parts of the country, too. It waa there that I met Con gresman George Brown. Asisemhljrman Byron Bumfrard, Douglas Doliarhide.

city councilman of Comptuo. Nanry Washington IhHielas, a niece of Booker T. Washington: Andy Tyler of New York, comedian Ihri. tiregarj. Irving Smith, the Wshint ton and lnn ashington of the Los Anceb SrniineJ; aKo Iawreaee Haubea of Holly wL and you name "em.

fioyai Moklnq New Mocklim Stella a P.oval V. exi hoUls ivcill tyftc rec iri witii cf 264 word; a minute remains us that Uiey 4V typtwTiters cf'mirg olf he Royal assembly lines hat have a greater capi city speed than aoy hurr.ir. i.inc can itsvh. Aril, ihcse cushion mact.ines re iuite a to the secr tap r.o ra to touch he Ke. rt thVn r.ah oui A tar rv frcsn revai rt ers who Yew ton' I lose wtH the cet yen ese en the Courier's Me? Order Fogei For Rates, Wr.te: J.

W.J. BOX IK MTTSBCBCa S. fA. A i a Things to Talk About by HAZEL CARLAND I 'si. 3 Ns 3 I burgh traia, bat the above and the following were some of the few that I chatted with daring Use long night.

In the party were aach noted chxbwoun a aa Maaaie Steward, a past presloVait of the OrysVoaaty Feirtatiea of Negro Women's Cmba. aad now residence director of the Spahr Street YWCA Pitta burgh. Ahm Georgie Paylor and Bessie Lynch, who recaUs wtta me martiiSj; on the White House about IT years ago when the National Association or Colored Women's fin ha marrbed in protest of the lynching of two tieorgia married couple. ARRIVING AT UNION STATION In Dee Cee. our train as met bv La Rue Fred I MARIAN ANDERSON a I i iK 't'f.

ii. ii i 7 VI AXILLA WILLIAMS BIG CLUBWOMAN Dr. Ron Gragg, preiidenf of tha National Atsociation of Colortd Women's Clubt. it sur. rounded by a group of clergymen who discussed, with the prominent Detroit clubwoman, the freedom rally.

Woody Tiylor Photo WOMEN ON MARCH Women were very much in evidence at the mammoth freedom march in Washington, D.C., on Aug. BEAUTY HINTS I h. Nin T.mrO Theie arc several sc ivts r.f kept" clean, feu "wIiTrVrvHrfooirt I riashivi with ice water to I it. and Ihen. nel up for The right.

This last keeps lit from sagging and making! thc se ugh circular lines jarounl the month. ilnwir.g rhf iiin iiur to fall a a look of in i ivep ir Th a cour't! tilm "Tw or in vii'tr tjut 'theie fj one whu li an agries wt man lolil me: il is this: "Keep as voting a ou an. as a you can There is only stlH kM Mtt'g. PIuti Whip 7 7IS( tt xt' r. innitt III alii a IfV.

ae vup pHirns 1 M.r iMK r. on jiii.e Soften gfiatin in re i dissolve oer liot egg whites end! ssi: tlien gradual tin mature. Chili at leat two hours. Spoon into dessert: jdishes tOr spnun into dessert i dishes, then chill, Serve plain or with thin cistard sauce or I rcatn. if desired.

Makes eight i sen ir.ps. i dtnj herself hime after a cay of literally a type MtiVT that wa primitive an iari. S.e vi" c. fx I I MAHAUA JACKSON i'iS." xr. I.I.J 'i YOUTH MAICH.

TOO Young people joined in the march, at can be witnessed by this group. They, too, re interested in jobs end freedom. Woody Taylor Photo If i i si I i ll f5 rri', i nT I I 1 '4'. it.i ML jt 28. group was just few of those representing various organizations taking in the march.

Woody Taylor Photo laaw a i 3 .7...: i 1 1 I I orirg; heat un'il stiff peaksj KTIIL of New York City hes been risHinsj form. iii plums aivi Mr parenn, ur. and Mrs. Uco still Kalamazoo, Mtch. Miss cstiii will assume new duties this fail at supervisor of elementary music in the public schools of Yonkert, N.Y.

She has played the violin, clarinet end piano; she sang in musics! groups in high school and at Western Michigan University, and played with the Junior Symphony Orchestra. A I960 graduate of WMU, with B.M. degree ike received the Department Head Awerd) I i jmnm bake Women Join Giant D. C. Freedom Rally Freedom Now." The word "freedom" was the keynote of the rally.

At the Liseoht Memorial where the march terminated, a two hour program featuring ekxiuent soeeches and Inspiring songs, was held. The vast crowd also had the privilege of thrilling to the singing of three of the country's greatest vok es Citable to get thrown the crowd In time to sing the National Anthem aa she waa listed, an. the. worid contralto, Marian An antra at the plat form he tewrs just after CaaOIn WDUnma sang tn her stead. Mm WUHama also aaag tha laspriag "Beaatifal Ctty.r The crowd did have an opportunity to hear one of the world's most beautiful voices when Marian Anderson later sang "He's Got tha Whole World in His Hands." IT TOOK the great gospel singer.

Mahalia Jackson, to set the crowd to dapping their hands. Singing with her customary' fervor, she was forced to sing a second number to pacify the crowd. Other music was supplied by the well known Eva Jessye Choir and arious entertainers. As part ef the program, a tribute to Negro women who ti hare been lea tlnx ufdScatrd III I LONELY MAICHEI This Inrindesl in the tribute were matron, loaded with a large Mrs. Medgar Evers, Mnaes.

bag. uses stf to help Bs Bosa Parka, her march. Gbrte Bicltaxtho Dlmae Nah nevet ana airs, ueroert SPEAKING ON BEHALF cl the women was Mrs. Daisy. Bates.

She let the world know that women were on the march and would not be stopped until freedom for everyone had become a reality. 1 Josef hine Baker, who left this country in the 20 to Free French, arid wearing a number of medals. La Cakei with emotion, said to the crowd: This is the happiest day of my life." Now 60 years old and retired from the entertainment world. Miss Baker makes her home In Paris, sharing her chateau with 12 adopted chil dren of different races. LOOKING OCT OVER the; crowd and seeing the white and Negro marchers.

Miss Baker said: "You are together as salt and pepper, just as you should be. You are a united people at last. I am glad tiiat my homeland this day has come to pass." i The once toast of two ronti 1 nents went on to say: Today you are on the eve of com plete victory. Tomorrow time will do the rest The wwid is behind you." She tame over just for the march and was to fly back the next day. After listening tn some of the greatest oratory ever de livered and moving musical I renditions the crowd retraced I their steps back to where they had started the big march, tired but happy to head for home, content that the pur i pose of their mtnh had been accomplished.

DAISY BATES Program Featured Three Famous Concert Artists By HAZEL GARLAND WASHINGTON The mammoth "March for Jobs and Freedom" is now a part of the annals of history, but the more than 250 000 men. wo zsm zr.i rhiiirr rwes who participated in tne inspiring epic, will always remember Aug. 2. 1963. as the greatest day in their lives.

It was a day when social bars were dropped and peopl from all walks of life marched side by side, showing the world they were united in one common bond. THEY MARCHED solemnly with a purpose, some singing tongs of freedom and carrying placards demanding "We Want I 1 ol MOTHER AND CHILD None were too young to participate in the march. This mother marches along with her small ton. achieve internanonal fame in fea362 Paris, flew in just for the rally. SWiS Dressed in the uniform of the jr fastest, easiest, most effective way to help protect your home from FUNGUS, MOLD.

MILDEW, ODORS It's to rjv to Eurd your home amatt tuold. and mi, including the funu? tlil aues Ata kte's loot. Jut add a little l.rml to votirrcj. uiarrk uin; atrr. L'uli'se pine oik, Lysc! dtrojs divrar nrv in rrl a funi and odon at Icmer ml frcsh Kndling Lysoi whrn ou clran bathroom kitchen, baby's room, ail through the house.

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leave skin teeUng. fresh and fimes. Qokky teJferes ItcJi h9, Bwntfng Misery eft Ugly Bumps, Acne Pimples, Simple Xhcfwerm, Burnina, rrHrred Font, Red, Irritated Hands, Tetter Cfxoma lOVIRIHEV mere, wtt a memoer ot me choir, the Uub MM, i end Sigm. Alpha lot. end Keppe fsi Sororities.

She got ttlfiflPi riHlH PaTTTIsn ITe neseter i music and music education in Itftl, end PZl UllI 1 VjJ 1 ILr UlllllilljaJl is now stedyig toward Ph.D. at Columbia Uveetrty. 11 I.

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