The Register, 1943-04-00

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VOLUME XXXIX, NO. 6.
A. & T. College, Greensboro, N. C, April, 1943
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Inflation,
Iture
and Industry
The student body of A. and
T. College was favored by a
roundtable discussion Monday,
April 12, 1943, by speakers well
versed in the topic of inflation.
Mr. A. R. Brooks of the English
Department presided over the
very informal discussion. Miss
Wedlock, Social Science instructor and Dean J. C. McLaughlin
of the Agricultural Department
represented A. and T. and Dr.
Jackson represented the Economics division of Bennett College.
Dean McLaughlin expressed
the views and objectives of the
Agricultural group in upholding
the Farm-bloc in Congress. He
stated that in order for the farmer to compete with Industry he
would have to demand higher
prices for his products.
Dr. Jackson opposed the viewpoint of Dean McLaughlin by
stating that the farmer was better off under the present set-up
than he realized. He further iterated that the farmer -was a
constant complainer who always
felt that all other labor groups
were against him.
The discussion was terminated
before either side had agreed to
any possible solution.
A One-Act Play
The student nurses of the L.
Richardson Memorial Hospital
of this city staged a one-act play
recently in the Richard B. Harrison Auditorium. The play was
one of a series of health programs sponsored under the supervision of Dr. F. E. Davis, A.
and T. College physician.
The play entitled "A Case of
Chastity" was a moral play very
appropriate for the audience
present. It depicted the plight
of the college girl on a typical
college campus. It warned the
girls to first seek medical advice
from authoritative sources before venturing out into any social acts which might cause them
years of regret and misery.
"A Case of Chastity" featured
the performances of Miss Brown-
lee, Miss Gorham, Miss Pro-
vatte and Miss Webster; it was
directed by Miss Flora Blanch-
ette, instructing nurse at the Memorial Hospital.
F. A. Williams
Writes On Land
Grant Colleges
Members of the Register Staff
were interested iji reading the
article of War Time Negro Land
Grant College appearing in the
March issue of Negro College
Quarterly published by Wilberforce University.
This interest was greatly increased When they discovered
that the article was written by
Mr. F. A. Williams, instructor
in Rural Economics, of Southern
University, Scotlandville, La.,
who was an honor graduate of
A. and T., Class 'SI.
We wish to congratulate Professor Williams on his very
thorough discussion of the program of the land grant college
at this time and we recommend
it to all who are interested in
getting a better understanding
of these colleges.
A New War Program
Comes To A. & T.
The Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina
officially inaugurated the Army
Specialized Training Program
when Dr. F. D. Bluford, president of the college and Lt. Col.
Basil A. Wood, contracting officer of the fourth service command, signed the Letter of Intent on April 16.
A. and T. College is one of
the eighteen schools in the nation, and the only Negro institution, to be selected by the War
Department as a Specialized
Training Assignment and Reclassification Unit. The agreement provides for the training,
testing, classification, and assignment of Army Specialized Training Program trainees, not to exceed five hundred at any one
time. The first unit will arrive
at the college on or about
April 19.
STUDENT
ELECTIONS
Students and candidates
are urged to consider the
forth-coming May Elections. Eligible candidates of
students for the presidency
of the Student Council and
iss A. and T., 1944, will
compiled and posted in
immediate future.
Mr. Green Publishes
Book of Verse
Mr. Green of the Dramatic
department has published a
book entitled Poetic Interlude.
It is to come off the press within
the next few weeks.
Poetic Interlude, a book of
verse, has been broadcast over
Radio Station WBIG for the
past four years. This series of
weekly programs has won the admiration and favor of thousands
of listeners who have faithfully
followed up the series of broadcasts.
The book contains poems written by some of you who listen,
those penned by Mr. Green himself, and some of those that listeners call—favorites—including
some A. and T. students.
The preface poem is illustrated by H. Clinton Taylor, and
the entire book follows the procedure of the broadcast from
which it received its name —
Poetic Interlude.
Industrial
Program
Growing
High Schools In All
Sections Turn to Trades
—Diversified Interest
Popular
According to recent reports by
Mr. Samuel C. Smith, State Itinerant Teacher of Trades and Industry, with headquarters here
at the College, high school training available to boys and girls
in this state has more than doubled in the last two years. He
further indicates that we may
look forward to even greater development along this line in the
near future.
In a recent interview with Mr.
Smith he made the following
statement in regard to this important division:
When an attempt is made to
take a restrospective view of the
Trade and Industrial Program
for Negroes of North Carolina,
with headquarters at A. and T.
College, it is imperative to note
the trend in national affairs and
the direct effect which the trend
has upon this particular phase of
the Educational Program.
The present war crisis has had
a dual effect, both positive and
negative. The demand for skilled labor has created an interest
in Vocational training, and has
brought to the front the need
for such training. The call has
been for the individual who can
produce. Therefore, there has
been a tendency to accelerate the
Trade and Industrial Program.
Some Defense Training Classes have been organized in such
trades as Welding, Machine
Shop Practice, Air-craft Sheet
Metal, Sheet Metal, Shipfitters,
etc.
The  public  schools  throughout the state have become more
concerned about Trade and Industrial  training  for  pupils  of
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National Negro
Health Week
Dr. Wm. J. Hughes, head of
the Negro division of the state
Health Department opened the
conference stating the significant
growth and development of public health among Negroes. He
also stated the important role
of the teacher in the matter of
public health.
Dr. Harder, head of the city
Health Department, made his
first address to the A. and T. College student body during Negro
Health Week. He spoke on the
general theme of Negro health,
noting its development especially in the sanitation, food and
like phases. He also pointed
out the problems which are confronting health safety.
The program was regarded as
one of the best of its kind given
here in many years. It was under the direction of Dr. F. E.
Davis, college physician.
Kappas Host To
Provincial Meet
Alpha Nu Chapter of Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity was host
to the Middle Eastern Province,
April 16-17. Representatives
came from Durham,. Charlotte,
Fayetteville, High Point, Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
Charleston, Bluefield, Beckley,
Welch, and Mt. Hope, W. Va.
Undergraduates were represented from Johnson C. Smith University, North Carolina College
for Negroes, Bluefield State
Teachers College, and West Virginia State College and A. and
T. College.
"The Negro and His Relationship to Wartime Problem"
was theme of the meeting. Appearing on the opening program
were President F. D. Bluford,
Miss Catherine Howard, Miss
Barbara Canada and Mr. Richard Epps, who extended greetings to the delegates on behalf of
to the delegates on behalf of
the college and Greeks respectively.
I. J. K. Wells, supervisor of
Negro Schools in West Virginia;
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Notice—Senior Issue!
The May Issue of The Register will be dedicated to
the Senior Class. Each member of the Senior Class is
urged to cooperate in this effort by remitting to The
Register the following information no later than Friday,
April 30, 1943:
Name	
Home Address	
Passport size photo, glazed	
College Affiliations _•	
Major	
Life Aim 	
C Called
Into Active
Service
One hundred and twenty-four
members of the E. R. C. were
notified by the War Department
on April 15 to report for active
duty, some on April 26 and
others on April 27.
This is the second call, the
first being the forty-five members
of the Senior R. O. T. C. who
received their orders to report
on April 5. There are still a
few members of the E. R. C.
who have not yet been notified.
The majority of the men will
report to Ft. Bragg, N. C, while
a few will report to Ft. Benning,
Georgia.
The  following  is  the  list  of
the men called:
To Fort Benning, Ga.:
Edward  F.  Parrish,  Carleton
W.   Moore,   John   S.   McGhee,
Samuel L. Brown;
To Fort Bragg, N.C:
Julius M. Alston, Paul O. Alston, Luther D. Baldwin, Roscoe
J. Betsill, William C. Bradshaw,
Clyde H. Brown, Evan Brown,
Glenn Brown, Lum Brown, Willie Butts, Warren Cabiness, Archie Cameron, LeRoy Campbell,
Walter Carter, Eddie Cecil, Austin Clay, William Cohen, Leonard Cooper, James Davis, Montrose Devane, Alfonzo Dicker-
son, David Douglass, Douglass
Faison, George Felton, George
Fennell, Henry Fennell, Asbury
Fikes, John Forte, Carl Fox, Edward Francis, Jesse Francis, Willie Frierson, James Fryar, Fred
Gatling, Emmett George, John
Gibson, Edmund Gilmore, Hilliard Gilmore, James Goode,
Earl Gordon, Harry Gore, James
Graham, Alphonso Greene, Elijah Griffin, William Gupple,
Marshall Hall, James Hardy,
Earnest Harrelson, Benjamin
Harris, Oliver Harris, Volious
Harris, Woodrow Harrison, William Henderson, Marion Hilliard, Wilfred Hines, James Holley, Murray Holmes, Clarence
Holt, Alfred Hunter, Clemmon
Jacobs, Elton Jeffries, Richard
Jenkins, Albert Jones, Randolph
Jones, James Jordan, Edward
joyner, Henry Joyner, Clarence
Kimber, Calvin Lampley, Harold Lanier, Larry Lee, Wilson
Lee, Joseph Leonard, Walter
Lewis, William Little, Clarence
Love, Eddie McCray, Sandy Mc-
Kellar, Booker McNeil, Houston
Melvin, Allen Mewborn, James
Miller, Harrel Mitchell, Warren
Mitchell, Frank Montague, William Moore, Austin Murrell,
Frederick Newbury, Nathaniel
Oliver, Wilmer Pinnix, Willie
Perry, Wilbur Pierce, Fred Pitt,
Graham, Pope, Clyde Powell,
William Powers, Charles Price,
John Purdie, James Reeves, Ol-
lie Royster, Albert Sadler,
Broadus Sawyer, Edward Ship-
man, Pearl Simons, Benjamin
Smith, Ernest Smith, William
Smith, Lewis Smyre, James^^
Speight, Seth Spellman, Gaston^.
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