THE ARIZONA GLEAM

THE ARIZONA GLEAMPublished at Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday of each week.

Entered in the Postoffice at Phoenix, Arizona, as second class mat-

ter, under Act of Congress of February 13, 1930.

MEMBER ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS

Editor and Manager G. S. Rodgers

Advertising Manager Jas. L. Davis

Associate Editor Floyd L. Easier

OUR POLICYWe array ourselves as the parties of NO individual, group

or party. In defending the great cause of human rights, we

wish to derive the assistance of races, religions and parties. As-

senting to the "self-evident truth" maintained in the American

Declaration of Independence, "that all men are created qual,

and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable right•—

among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,"

we shall strenuously contend for equality of jusfic, and the

right of life, liberty and happiness unhampered by petty prej-

udices, and for the political freedom of the Negro.

OUR PLATFORM1. The employment of Negroes in all public works sup-

ported by public utilities or from any tax fund from which Ne-

groes are not exempt.

2. Race employees in all businesses which are patronized

largely by our group.

3. Aid and encourage Negro enterprises.

4. Broadcast facts of the health restorative facilities of our

climate.

5. Encourage and advocate the buying of homes and thecreating of bank accounts among Negroes.

6. To fight prejudice and discrimination.

7. The advancement of the race educationally, morally

and spiritually.

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THAN TUESDAY AT 6 O'CLOCK P. M.

VACATION OVER

Vacation period is drawing'to a close for thousands of schoolchildren throughout the country, and the school room doors of thisstate began to fly wide open to accept students as early as Septem-

ber 8.

It is the duty of all parents who have children of school age tosee that their children enroll at the opening of school and continuein attendance throughout the year. Parents, where required, should

supply their children with textbooks and all necessary equipmentin order that the best results can be obtained.

If the parents will do their part, the teachers and officials willmeet them more than half way.

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COMMENDATION

The showing of the Negro posts of the American Legion of thestate during the state convention held here last week is a credit to

the Race and needs commendation.The Negro posts took several of the first prizes awarded by the

convention as the result of their efforts in many of the Legion acti-vities.

What the Legionnaires have accomplished in Legion activitiesthrough co-operation, can be done along lines that are essentialfor Race development.

Well, home again, and I mean

it as a good place to be. As usual,

when returning from a vacation or

"rest feel worn-out, tired of hu-

manity, ant-bit and worst of all—

broke. But, it was swell while it

lasted. Paid a visit to Crystal pier

to fish in the great, big ocean and

darn near froze to death. I could

have stood a lot of that good old

Arizona sunshine that night. And

if you want a thrill (if you havn't

already tried it) just try walking

out on one of those piers and have

the waves shake it when the tide

starts coming in. And worst of all,

there's nothing under you but

about a hundred feet of good old

slimy’, salty ocean.* * *

Did have a sort of thrill, though,

that beats meeting a mountain lion

in the Flagstaff high-hills. Caught

a bull-dog shark. That’s one of

those babies that bark and spit at

you, and when laid out on the pier,

darned if he didn’t start walking

around on his fins, and wiggling

those ears of his that were about

the size and appearance of a bull-

dog’s. THAT’S when I wished I

was back home again.* * *

Had my first glimpse of the

ocean and destroyers. Snoonie

wanted to swim across and Jim

wanted to go in and pull her out,so Ihad a swell time keeping them

both on the beach. I’d hate for oneof those shells fired by one of the

big naval guns to get .hung up in

my Ford. I’m afraid you wouldn’t

be able to find any of it. Also had

my fill of seeing those Army and

Navy planes that people ga-ga

about when they come to Arizona.The darn things flew day and

night and when I say flew, that is

just what I mean. They keep

enough noise for ten cities.* * *

And when you talk about thrills

tie this one. Drove off the road

to rest and found myself buriedjust about two feet in one of those

soft shoulders. Well, after digging

around for about three hours, the

wife happened to look down onthe ground and darned if she didn’t

see one of the most beautiful tar-

antulas you ever laid eyes on. He

was a small devil. Just about the

size of your hand, and his beady

little eyes didn't have any love in

them when he rolled them around

at me. Well, thats when I left

desert, automobile, sand, tarantula

and all. Yes sirree. Those thingsare nice to keep away from. Dueto the kindness of three drunkMexican boys, I am at home now,

Around and AboutBy FLOYD L. EASTER

and if they hadnt come along, thiscolumn would have been VERY

late. I was just in the mood to

play leap-frog with that lowly in-

sect. Sidewinders were plentiful

also, so you can see that really did

enjoy shoveling around in the’

sand.

* * *

Had the honor of being invited

to a wedding. That of Gazella and

Luther Thomas. Met Robert and

Willie Arnold, and Robert still has

that Caponish appearance. That’s

one place where I could always

get lost. I got tired of asking

people where I was staying, and

where this and that street was,

so I just called it a day and stayed

at home. Met Lilly Mae Grady,

too, and enjoyed a nice chat. Met

some other people who knew me,

but I’llbe darned if I could place

them, but everybody was happy

anyway.* * *

Well, the day of this writing,

some candidate is gonna find outwhether it did any good to lam-

bast, and blaspheme his opponent

A lot of good men are going to be

elected to offices, and a lot of

other good men are going to be

voted down because they couldn’t

think of enough cuss words and

slander to lay on his opponent

Well, guess its’ all in a day’s work.

We can only hope that ALL of

the men who get elected will stick

up to their platforms and prom-

ises, but then there is no need ofwishing for miracles.

* * *

Havn’t decided just whether the

Negro is better off with or without

segregation. In the Southern

states, we find big dry goods

stores, drug stores, grocery chains,

lawyers and their staffs, (and

good ones too), undertakers, jew-

elry shops and even shoe manufac-turers. In our district whenever

we want to purchase anything atall, the only place we can go is to

a Chinaman or to some other race,

with the possible exception of beer

and hard drinks. We have plenty

of those places. So we don’t know

exactly whether it really is segre-

gation that makes for this great

advancement of the Negro in the

South, or whether it is the supe-

rior intelligence of our people down

in them thar parts. Now don’tstart a row. When you want to

find the greatest dentists, docotrs,

undertakers and businessmen, you

will find them in the Southern

states.

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