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OFFICIAL ORGAN of the NEW NEGRO ALLIANCE

New Negro Opinion

Featuring Clean Inspiring News
For the Good of the Race

Second Year. No. 6.|WASHINGTON, D.C., WEEK OF FEBRUARY 10, 1934|Price 2 Pennies

AS WE GO TO PRESS ...

   FLASH! ... Miner Teachers College and Howard University students not invited by educational committee of the Washington Branch of the American Association of University Women to enter "Best Poem" contest opened by the association.  Though this is a local group offering cash prizes, students of the University of Maryland have been invited to enter their creative work.... Let's stick together and discover our own Edna St. Vincent Millays and John Masefields.  It is recalled that promising high school editors of the 10-13 divisions of public schools were barred last fall from a convention of D.C., Md., and Va. public high school editors sponsored by The Hatchet of George Washington University.  Do something about these injustices....Join the Alliance.
   FLASH AGAIN....Mme. Lillian Evanti, celebrated soprano, has been invited to have told a delegation of Communists that the N.A.A.C.P. favored jim-crowing of Negro workers in project camps and other phases of CWA work.  This does not sound like the N.A.A.C.P. we once knew, but the matter bears investigation.
   F-L-A-S-H .. Anacostia and Southeast Washington citizens are showing unusual activity and interest in the Alliance since a successful mass Administrator Robert G. McGuire, Jr., has charge of this eventful gathering.  This marks another step in lining up every citizen in all sections of Washington with the Alliance.


Missouri Jury Frees Lynching Suspect

   St. Louis, Mo.––Walter Garton, 41 year-old white cook, was freed early this week on a charge of first degree murder in the lynching of Lloyd Warner, 19, who was burned by a mob here on November 28.
   Trials of six other suspected members of the lynching party were held up pending a decision from Attorney General Roy McKittrick as to what further action will be taken.
   Garton was acquitted by Buchanan county circuit court jury on the first ballot.  He was charged with being a leader of the mob that lynched and burned Lloyd Warner, who was accused of criminally attacking a young white woman.
   One member of the jury, Samuel Utz, told police that a group of angered white persons threw eggs at his home after the verdict was announced.  Officers reported that no other unusual incidents were reported to police headquarters.


George E. C. Hayes Gives Timely Speech

   At an enthusiastic regular meeting of the New Negro Alliance, Attorney George E. C. Hayes, attorney for Howard University, gave a rousing address to an audience which filled the assembly room in the Y.M.C.A., last Saturday night.
   Said the speaker, in part, after being introduced by Mr. Clyde McDuffie, who presided: "This can be no kid-glove organization.  It must reach the needs of the people.  It must respond to needs of the less fortunate persons in the by-ways and hedges with a genuine, whole-soul response.  Whether this is a right movement is determined by a favorable response on the part of the man of the street."
   "The Negro Alliance has started a movement which can not be allowed to slip out of control.  You are going to have your ups-and-downs.  But a whole-hearted action will keep this organization from going to pieces.
                 NO FULL DRESS
   The speaker laid stress on the fact that in (the coming court injunction trial, the New Negro Alliance could ill afford to appear in court "as mendicants in full dress."  He pointed out the need for printed briefs of the case, and the attending costs to "put over a clean, intelligent job."  He welcomed the radicalism of the organization, "if it means a displacement of selfish organizations whose only purpose for their being is to increase their coffers."  
   Among the discouragements which the Alliance would meet, Attorney Hayes cited: the drag-down effects of "leaders" who should be in the thick of the fight, but stay outside to check all failures; the "leaders" who "flee the fight when things get pretty hot," and the "close friends" of members of the organization who "jump on the golden chariot" while it is good running order.
   Concluded the speaker, "the eyes of the world are on the Alliance.  You have done your best.  You have done well.  The best that can be said of those of you who are in this work is that with all of the difficulties and discouragements which you have experienced up to this time, you have not fled the fight."


Adult Courses Begin At Cardozo High

   Courses in modern social problems, emphasizing the economic status of the Negro, will be given at the Cardozo High School night classes, Ninth Street and Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest, beginning next Monday. These courses, planned for grown-ups will extend for a period of five weeks.  On Mondays and Wednesdays at 8:30 o'clock, lectures will be given.  Discussions will be held on Friday evenings.

   Economic theory and history, general social effects of economic development and economic trends in the United States will be among the subjects discussed.  Eugene Kinckle Jones, special adviser to the Department of Commerce on Negro Affairs: Lieut.  Lawrence A. Oxley, of the North Carolina educational welfare board, and Dr. Frank Coe, white, research associate of the Brookings Institute, will lead the discussions.

   Registration for these adult courses will be held next Monday night at Cardozo High School.

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What Others Say About Us

   "Colored people do not seem to realize that effectual use of the boycott is a saber in the side of the merchant who depends upon Negros for his trade.
   "Too long, the blacks have thought white, lived white, and some have tried too hard to be white.  Let us remain black and be full of wisdom."
Granville T. Johnson,
Washington, D.C.

   "I am very proud of the splendid work your organization is doing for colored people." 
Addie Morgan,
Washington, D.C.

   "Last week I organized a group of young Negroes Alliance of Philadelphia.  Since then my brother, Charles Lofton, of Washington, has written me to the effect that the group in Washington is organized as the New Negro Alliance.  I am writing to you for advice as to whether you think it best that we take the Washington group's name or not.  I would also appreciate you sending me any advice and information that you might think would be helpful to us here."
Melvin M. Lofton, M.D.,
Phildelphia, Pa. 

Dr. Just Sails

Dr. E.E. Just, professor of zoology, Howard University, sailed February 1, abroad the S. S. Rex bound for Naples, Italy, where he will continue his researches on the "Analysis of the Basic Activities of the Living Cell and the Beginning of the Life-Process in the Living Egg,"  researches he has been doing for a number of years.
   Dr. Just is the author of some fifty scientific papers on experimental embryology and was for five years Rosenwald Fellow of the National Research Council.  Dr. Just will resume teaching at Howard University in October, 1934.
   Dr. Just is associate editor of Biological Bulletin, Wool's Hole, Mass,; Physiological Zoology Chicago; Collaborator Protoplasma, Berlin; and Cytologia, Tokio, Japan.  He was formerly vice-president of the American Society of Zoologists meeting at Padua, Italy, in 1930. He was guest professor of Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Biology, Berlin, Germany, 1930, 1931, 1932.

Figure it out for yourself.  The Alliance has obtained over forty jobs for Negroes that are worth $30,000 per year.  What will it amount to in ten years? Think it over.  A membership in the Alliance is an investment for your children.

De Priest Introduces Resolution

   Representative Oscar DePriest has introduced in the House of Representatives, a resolution intended to wipe out the vicious discrimination recently put into effect in the House restaurant when two gentlemen, one of them secretary to DePriest, were denied service there.  This discrimination was caused by Lindsay C. Warren, North Carolina Congressman, who claims that as chairman of the Committee on Accounts, he has the right to fix the policies of the restaurant.  The DePriest resolution challenges Warren's authority and calls for a House Investigation.  Under the rules of the House, this resolution must be referred to a committee, and thirty days must be allowed for consideration in committee before it can be brought up on the floor. 
   The text of the resolution, in part, follows:
   "Whereas it has come to my attention, as a Representative in Congress, that a rule of discrimination is being enforced in the restaurant service of the House of Representatives; and
   "Whereas, these people and their forbears have contributed of might and
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