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The Equal Rights Bill will not become effective until Sept. 1. Last week, however, Pennsylvanians were beginning to realize how hard it would be to evade it. Discrimination of any kind will be a crime, punishable by a fine up to $500. a jail sentence up to 60 days. Two Negro women marched into the William Penn Hotel Beauty Salon, swankest in Pittsburgh, asked for a "powder test." usually given free. A white beautician told them it would cost $5 apiece. They showed their money. She said they would have to have an appointment. They asked for one. She finally said there were no appointments free for a month; she would telephone them when a date was open. Had the law been in force, she might have done her telephoning from jail, having boosted prices, refused to give an appointment.
At a cinema theatre in Monessen, Pa., three Negroes asked for seats in the orchestra. They threatened the manager, a Greek, with the law. He answered that if necessary he would close his theatre on Sept. 1. At amusement parks in several towns, when Negro couples invaded dance floors, white dancers promptly marched off. At a small hotel in Pittsburgh a Negro minister tried to arrange a banquet for 40 persons but the management was "booked up for two months."
*Other Negro fraternal orders include: Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia; Knights of Pythias (Eastern and Western Hemisphere); Grand United Order of Fishermen of Galilee; Grand United Order of Galilean Fishermen; Improved Benevolent Order of Reindeer; Benevolent Protective Herd of Buffaloes of the World; Improved Benevolent Protective Order of the Moose of the World; Grand United Order of Brothers and Sisters, Sons and Daughters o Moses-Grand United Order of Tents of J. B Giddings and Jollifee Union; Royal Circle of Friends of the World; Supreme Circle of Benevo-lence.