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ARE NEGROES BECOMING A RACE
OF GAMBLERS
Hold Man And Wife Van Cortlandt Club
For Murder
By Drmilln Dunjee Houston
(Fop Tlio Associated Negro I'ress.)
One of the principal Jova on tli«* •
life of a sports "dopester" in tin-
opportunity hi' linn now nnd then,
of fleeing « n« of his predictions
coiiit* true Nnd to be able to any,
"I told you io." Thus it is with
no little pride that we call atten-
tion to the latest feat of Eddie To-
Ian, premier dash man — heating
Frank Wycoff by two yards in set-
ting a new world's record of ten!
and three-tenths seconds for the
one hundred meter run. What must
Percy Williams have thought us he
sat on the sidelines and watched
the black hoy flash by to victoryt
Some time ago 1 predicted in this
column that Tolan would heat Wy
eoff at the Olympic distance of one
hundred meters which is equivalent
to one hundred and nine yards. To-
lan is perhaps the strongest finisher
in the minds of those who have
just skimmed history, many of the
things people are doing today seem
new and highly fashionable. These
people do not know that civilization
goes round in a circle and that there
is no new thing under the suii. Tin
follies of today are hoary with age.
They have had their bearing in
every clime and condition always-
with the same results. We have a
right to spend our recreational hours
as we please. There is no civil wrong
in plaving cards, dancing, or ti; ping
the flowing bowl, but there may be
a moral wrong. We do not live un-
to ourselves. We stamp these in-
fluence* within our unlmrn children.
The prospective mother may have
only normal interest in the cards
she plays hut that interest will live
fourfold in gambling lu*t in the
Cleveland, Miss., Aug.,
That iri why the intelligent class of i Associated Negro Press.)
whiles make war on slot machines. |M|H Harton and his wife
One of the best salesmen who came rested here Wednesday
to out store lost a steady, laying, ,-barged with the murder
job because he would chance his Thigpen, a white farmer,
money in slot machines. The com
pany felt that they could not trust
him longer. Social classes have set
the gambling vogue.
Years ago we used to take our
children to the yearly carnivals. In
them were many things that were
intsructivc nnd amusing. We used
to enjoy the "Alps," realistic and
beautiful. There were other things
worthwhile. It was a needed outlet
for overflowing young spirits. But
a change came over carnival*, the
spirit of giving value depnrted and
gambling took possession of them.
Everywhere you would turn there
him something to knock down for
a dime and carry home. Few people
Leads in Orphanage
Contributions
With The Jazz
Orchestras
The Vnn ('ortbindt *
it" meeting ut the rcsi
Arthur L. LewU. 214
body was found near his _
day night.
Officers said that tracks frol th.
place Thigpen'■ body was fijjijpd
to Barton's house and thst'l r.
volver which had been fired TOUiit
Iv was found there. Both of the >ri
soncrs declared that they hti^fcitli . ^
ing to do with the crime.
"Three Peanuts"
Rehearse New Act
among pretent ilav tprintera. He i* i •'"'"'"B ''hilil.
built low on the' ami has to" la,,• we ,i"'1 °m whether a tlii K
great ntamina. Wyeoff in fast on \ WB* *ronB °* rW-
the start. In every race at one 'rlli" '■eeoming a nation of gam
hnndred yards won bv Wyeoff, his hler «r"um' "r """1V
margin of victory has been inehea i rin" cIh"" "" I ''"'stent hai
only. Infact photographs shorn that l"""1 ,h'' « n'b '>K a,llonB that
Tolan really beat Wyeoff at the In I Police al"' l",|'"ul ""thorities have
tercolegiatcs in Philadelphia. Then
too, Wiyeoff's physique does not al-
low bim to enter the longer dash
at 220 yards, while Tolan is supreme
at that distance. All of this gives
us high hopes for a double victory
/or Tolan at the Olympic next year
in Loa Angeles.
In a recent installment of his auto
biography now running serially in
the Saturday evening Post, Jack
Dempsev explain* his failure to
meet Harrv W4lls, the Black Pan
ther. He says he himself had no
fear of Will*,—rather, Harrv was
the one man he wanted because he
figured he was the best drawing
card. But it was Rickard, the noble
Texan, who cautioned against it,
saying that a mixed bout would kill i have taken over
the boxing game. However, .lack wealth.
hastens to add that this is no alibi When you let another man do your
on his part. Passing strange! % 1 thinking for you, what else can you
wonder what some future sage willl®*P®®tf ^ •' have a shallow type
give as the cause for the continual [ who would claim that the postmast-
shunting aside of Godfrey and <'ar- erwaa sharpening his wits. In that
neMV WarbV'fheir feet are too big.TWflFfT'the pefopfc duT not r£a<f. They
_____ | had no church. I was the only No
Well once more the boys are lim- gro there. When they fonnd that the
bcring up the old soup bones pre
perhaps realize that this is pure
gambling. These games are so set
Sometimes when it is j that a small number will knock
down something and the vast num-
ber of dimes and quarters will be
thrown away. Various stool pigeons
are uppointed to take a shot and
win. These privately return their
winnings and receive a small pay.
The public seeing their "luck" fall
over themselves to waste their
money. These gambling carnivals
carry away thousands of dollars of
the people's hardearned money.
Many towns refuse these gambling The
carnivals entrance. j will be
Do we want our children drawn Church
been compelled to join hands to
stamp it out. In a Swedish town of
California I found that not only the
school boys but the postmaster and
his associates spent spurc time
shooting dice. One evening a few
weeks ago, we had occasion to visit j
Chicago, Aug. (By The AseO'Ut
ed Negro Press.)—The ThrMLPM
nut Boys, Leonard Heed, Oreille
Jones and .\flffin Campbell, who
were the sensation of Earl Fplw'n
night club in Cincinnati asd fho
closed a contract with WFBK radio
station recently, are now rchtai <in^
a new singing, dancing and chattel
act.
The trio just closed at the ftegal
theatre here.
ocial club, in
.Icnce of Mr.
i. -it Ferguson St.,
went on record uiwiniinously in its
endorsement of the Ella Austin
Home drive, and voted n contribu-
tion of One Hundred Fifty (flftO.dO)
Hollars for the cause. The club in
the midst of its festivities, with Mr.
Lewi* as host, discussed the ad-
visability of even going further dur
these times of stress in help-
ing to relieve suffering and putting
over constructive programs of real
Community benefit.
(i
(For
By
The
.limmie
Associate
IT I ' N KK
d Negro P
Carroll Dickerson.
directed one of the
in Chicago, is now di
Mill '* famous '' Hlue
This feature can l e
who formerly
leadiug bands
rector of Ir\ ing
i{y t It in Boys
heard over the I
i W. MUM IB
fOACH AT TF.XAS
COLLEGE
QUESTIONS
w
L.
\LKKR)
ifue
What lit
Me Kenny *
Nina .Mae
ItllK-
f"
sent
i* Kenny <
in a stage i k
e Harlem Tit*:
Bo Hill Kobii
N. B. C. tui
With the
many clinngc
Omar Siuiiei
Karl lliae's
eklv.
oming of tall, conies
in Orchestra lineups
n, saxaphoiiists with
baud, has joined Me
THE \MKDDINO OF TflE
NATIONS
'Wedding of the NatfAis",,
presented at Bethel A.XK.I
Monday night, directed by
a number of Negro homes in the
evening on a matter of business and
to our astonishment we found room
after room of colored people gam-
bling. In the congested rooming
house life that the musses must live,
there seems nothing else for them
to do. They do not read. Men are
fast even forgetting how to think
into such channels of influence? Mrs. Willie Young Richard!
The young man who is thus drawn :
will never make a working husband miaous effect on young life, ikouM
or son. He will lay at home and , w0 ttg Aframericans continue ih
sleep and wait for the goddess jp(.t imitutlon> Lvt ua iit JuWn
"chance, usually a lather or llttr|v with our children nnd rca to;
mother, to feed him. From the cards th(M;, worthwhi|e booki> Let Ui| li(1
he advances oil to highway robbery, th« m to think of vital worlljp )l
—they are twin forms of taking , Icni(l< \A,t us train in them {
money off others. He descends to 0f conversation. By study and t^ vei
paratory to crossing bats. This time
the fun takes place at Van Daelc
Htadium on Nundnv, August 30. The
Regular Fellows are out to make it
two straight over their opponents
who are this time playing under the
name of the Kast Side .Nfix Team.
At first I thoug'it maybe they had 1
ways that we can
to the life of our children asd
friends. The trouble is now thst
middle-aged are racing around
mad pursuit of false pleasures
hfX ugh L t o-J*
safe and delightful ways
for youth.
toy:
or inform themselves upon vital I
questions of the race and nation. ■ the pit of the '' strange woman awaken them to the i'jl
Wliile we live thus stifled our fa that she may furnish him support, beauties of life nnd real |.!ea*i <•«.
collies. 20 per rent of the people An Inst we who set the eard game ' Ab(, for thoie of whn M|B|(
per eent of the | example pny for it in n soil with an |M(I1„. t)ll,ri, >r,. ,,
evil eye upon our possessions, | os lij/i>nt ways that wo can add
sessions laid up by a toiling fat lief
and mother, that he never lifted
his finger to help gather. The gam-
bling mind learns to covet the means
that will bring ease anil leisure,
n?" (f ress "ana popfiflttty. TtTIXIf
the old father and mother who stand
in the way of his possession, be
l.iternrv Digest came into our home j come hated for continuing to live
and was digested, I was interview We who abet the gambling crnzc
ed daily upon nnlionnl <|uesfions ) h vo h lped to make this monster.
Thev took this information and my
MEET ME AT THE
GUADALUPE
ASSOCIATION
(UNING)
AUG. 24 - 31, 1931
IN
SEGUIN, TF.XAS
AT
SECOND BAPTIST
CHURCH,
REV. W. I. RECTOR,
Pastor
iKnnev's
Valentine,
Tate's oi
Karl lllne
is also
tioa.
fa
Iso leaving
exjj
lot ton Pickers
first trump
'iestra. will
in the t. II. <i.
the lline
i-ct to see
s in the local bauds tlii
liaymouil.
ter with
it art with
irge Dixon
i eoiiibinn
many neu
inter.
Jelly
Hot IV|
< on their
j Compain
I'i.II Mortoi
pers" are •
recordings
this miiiitli.
' Itais
•• lte<
l ain'
Victo
Th
Colic
dred per
W. Mum
ford wai
coach at
and Intel
to the li
that the
Wiley a
luster ai
year to
entered
mediatel'
wast ho
ti-am out
ronche
team
rands
ut look for athlet ics sit Texas
lias been enhanced one bun
r cent, by the • oming < f A
ford as head couch. Mum
vcars
o I lege
Robi
for a number of
Jnrvis Christian (
r lend the Bishop Bears in
imclight. It was under Inin
annual "Classic" between
lid Bishop took on udded
ml the interest grew from
venr. Wtien Mum ford first
Texas as a coach he im
\ began to show the South
iw to develop a winning
t of what he had at li:nid.
season he was one of the
of the famous Wilberforci
hicli held Tuskegee at a
I last Fall.
Xmer
t}w ati
Ans.:
<.<|y IM
(juesl i
on (Colore
tap-dance'
Hi.'l Water
if ha |
iged
« lifford Ha\eV-
>'tompers.'' want tb
that they can be |
viHe. Kentucky. Clifford
bovs were formerly Victor
ing artists.
Professor I?. A. Wilson,
the department of llistor. :
College and Acting Dean f
3'J is spending a f• •' days
lie is accompanied '•> Mr.
(iillcspi , a r. t ent graduat
ProftsM.i W11 -on i< v. II
Th
uud i
hope
fan^
.* loo
at
k in i:
Tyler are jubilant
forward with great
Whi
artel
ii dual
Muh
gm
a r
HI fir
.d
Mi*
lloff
\\ i«
and
Rovi
:t rd <
t 'olnreil
a intYi 11
i under th '
II Hugfi4 .
insetvatrfry
id the
h< ad
it ^
to tlu- • oming
ford. \ 11« .d> he li
I 1 auh ♦ r an attncl
the material nt hi
will arrive to take
ber 1st. Several boy
the grounds to gree'
Muni ford when he a pi
f l oach Mum
begun l.i ing
that will suit
disposal. H*
harge Sept cm
are already on
the mighty
ars.
Uhb Hip
ehool yea
Ans I
purine li:j
•..'is Odel
was the Ixmt I
irl athlete at Do
i during the jr.
; girl athlete w
.• best boy athle
Mc
Mite he
,f Wib
th
Hie
1U30.
Ant..
w ih
i:
evening with Louis1
Friday night, Sept. 4, at Beeth-
Hall.
GIORGIA S
COMMI MTV sroiu:
Dealers In
Groceries. Meat Market &
Dry Goods
Ill's! in Quality, First
in Prices
We want your Business,
We Strive to Please you
JUMUt.l V I'
Phone Woodlawn 2900
1401 N. LAREDO 8TREET
The Southwestern Athletic Con
ference will be in the limelight this
season, with the mighty Long broth
cis of Wiley, backed up by the
coitnuiiig Cox, Sam Taylor the
Beaver Man" of Prairie View,
George H. Collins, the "rough and
rend) Hear", who returns to Bisho)
'o take charge of the Bishop Bears,
and the "Silent Mumford." who is
no stranger to the Southwest, guid
iii«r the destiny of athletic* at Texas
College, and will radiate a color, the
lil of which has not ben seen be
Don't forget to meet me Friday
night, Sept. 4, at Beethoven Hall
to lioar Louis Armstrong and his
recording Orchestra.
Doii't miss Loius Armstrong toA
his recording orchestra. Beethov
Hall. Sept. 4. 8.30 P M.
Don't Ih
v the niie
August:,
Chestnut
service to
lil
a "(luinen'' knov i*
nf noiw you ure al .
our nccompliflhmer..
it• :i Guin
n^?*.
<t reet
all.
iiuty Parlor, "2l%l
Cr. 9572 courtdftu
called upon the services of some of
the mighty players of the fairer
sex—thus giving us a mixed team
sure enough. Hut the lineup gives
no evidence of such so we are fore
ed to conclude that Tom Moore and
"Bob" King were unnble to j^er
eonclusions, swallowing them whole
sale. This is much the present Aemr
lean attitude. Was t'leir town grow
ing? It was not.
Trade was slipping away from
them to another place rapidly grow
ing just down the road, whero the
people were too busy to waste preci
ous time gambling. The masses to
day are getting their standards from
I the movies, extrnvagance around us
j grows space. We read the propagan
samde President Ratliff and the 1 da of the bought white press. Our
other more sedate members of the j idle time is spent with "True
Van Cortlandt Club to consent to , Stories," doping our minds
permit any further such atrocities, lurid, lustful, stuff.
as were committed in the first gume
to be done in the name of their
mighty organization. He that as it
may, the boys are out for revenge.
J. D. Lowcry says he'll put that ball
across the plate at any cost and he
won't dig any holes or tear off the
roof of the grandstand, while trying
to find the plate. The East Siders
have added Arthur Brady, who is
fresh from Fred Long's couching
school at Wiley, but Mam Wright
says that when he gets through
shooting his favorite curves at Ar
thur, he'll think lie is in the Cliem
istry and Physics laboratories both
at one und the same time.
Our 44innocent" card playing in
fashionable circles has sent tliih
vogue on down to the common mnnl
for the he apes what the higher
classes do. Mrs. Greenback Tippler,!
mother, plays cards and if we do]
not we are "back numbers." Sol
the weak mother accedes. The thing
apparently innocent today may be j
come a gigantic, whirlpool tomorrow
that shall cany men down to des ■
tructieu. It takes strong, wise men |
nnd women to make the program of j
social life, not people who t an see ,
no further than their noses. Arab ;
with i ians are a nation of gamblers. Be
| cause of the nature developed by it i
\Vifiy pi
5
and
y hide
eek for tires . . . .
deliver and install
zTus+Thonc. ^
we
Let us look back at other ages and they have no settled life and tend
other nations that have gotten into ; when they can take
our trend. Let us see if they were | etnee of those able
really better and happier. When i
men lose the soberer virtues, in or
der to earn a living and reach sue
cess, they turn to taking chnnces.
The trouble today with our young
men is that they are infected with i
this spirit. Why learn a tedious
trade f WJhy stay in school f Out
there is the fairy goddess chance, j
over the sub-
nations. Why i
should they plant and tend when !
they can take over the substance |
of those foolish enough to do so. j
Gambling makes men concienceless
The wild Bedouin claims the virtue)
of any Arab womun when he may .j
appear at the door. Virtue and liber-
ty sometimes the stake.
We have all made mistakes in our j
It is more easy to pursue her. So j social pursuits and standards and
they stick to no job. \ chance game the sensible thing is to realize this
will furnish him a meal. Luck at a j and to make adjustments. White
slot machine will furnish some other people are following forms of amuse-
neceasitv. Wliien a young- man gets inent in social life that are out-
such a slant on life he is mined. | worn und senseless. Seeing their
At> the same time out at Lincoln i
Park John MeKinxie's Athletics;
will cross bats with the West Side j
Eagles. Last Sunday these two teams
• wsnt nine innings to a 6—0 dead
lock, so the fun will fly next Sun
day. Incidentally the Lincoln Field
boys have been playing some mighty 1
cIohm and exciting games during the j
week with teams from various other
parts town. Yes, it's true. Truth)
is stranger than fiction. f
Tennessee Baptists
Meet And Elect
tyem^his, Teuu. (ONS-.) — The j
Riverside Baptist Association, coin
posed of churches of West Tennes-
see held its convention at Salem
Baptist Church last week. The of-
ficers elected include: Rev. L. E.
Miller, president; Rev. J. B. Jones,
first vice president; Rev. J. H.
Walker, sccond vice president; Rev.
J. W«. Wafford, third vice president;
llevia Turner, recording secretary;
Rath Smith, assistant seciotary; Er-
nestine Pruitt, corresponding secre-
tary; Simuel Mcrris, treasurer; and
Rev. W. H. Mos'jy, chairman of the
exaaotrve committee.
AUG. 281
STEVENS' BIG TENT
(nWVKII AM) NUEVA)
3 p. m. — 2 SHOWS — 8 p. m.
BIG TIME FOR EVERYBODY
Evrrylhiiiji from
PEANUTS TO CALLIOPE
A Great Program — a Fancy, Funny
Frolic! Join the big "PEE-RADE"
that's headed for this Big Show
August 28th
UNbEH THE DIKECTION OF
CITY RECREATION DEPT.
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You waste no time or energy, and y<_u know you arc getting the
best tire your money can buy when we install a U. S. Tire. Its repu-
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accounts fcr the Big Swing to U. S. Tires. Just phone us, and we'll
quickly have the tire you need at your door, with an experienced
service man who will install it without charging you a cent extra.
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Fourth
At Ave. "E
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Modern Conveniences
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f:
kin.n Ki\in:n(.\niE\;
SCHOOL
Hon": and Hay iard fcr Children
The First of its kind in
San Antcnio for Colored
Children taken in the building
Boarders from 2 to 12 years
Group Classes Taught
School open the year round
MISS KELLY, Supervisor
P>e<hnonth At*. ant-
Mission 7324
gooil Kindergarten dept.* Ji.
tin* rt-nl foundation of an effi-c
five life in cliilil education. '.J
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