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The monitor., 1928-02-24
VICTORY is DRAWING
NEAR FOR PULLMAN
PORTERS' UNION
Recent Court Decisions in Suits by
Similar Organizations Will Help
That of the Porters'
Union

New York, N. Y, Feb. 24.-Ac-
cording to Henry T. Hunt, Donald R.
Richberg and Frank P Walsh, coun-
sci for the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters, the recent court deci-
sions, namely, the district court for
the southern district of Texas, and
the supreme court of New York state,
on the company union, have greatly
reinforced and fortified the position
of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters in its fight to secure recogni-
ton, living wage, the 240-hour work
month and better working conditions.
Federal Judge j. C. Hutcheson in
the case of the Brotherhood of Rail
way and Steamship Clerks, Freight
Handlers, Express and Station EN-
ployees, Southern Pacific Mines in
Texas and Louisiana, ct al, VS.. Texas
and New Orleans Railroad company,
ct al, handed down a decision order
ing the Imprisonment of three Off
cials of the railroads found guilty of
contempt of court for alleged de-
fiance of an injunction granted the
Brotherhood of Railway Steamship
Clerks last August.
To escape jail, Judge Hutcheson
told the railway officials they must
recognize the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Steamship Clerks until secret
ballot of the employees is taken un-
der court supervision; abandon the
Association of Railway Clerks, the
company union; reinstate the railway
clerks bonafide union officials and
members discharged from service dur
ing the dispute; pay fees of the
Brotherhood of Railway and Steam
ship Clerks counsel and give the bon,
afide unions officials all privileges
they are entitled to- The latest dis
patches in the press show that the
railway officials have obeyed the or
der of the court.
According to A. Phillip Randolph,
general organizer of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters, the above
cited case in on all fours with the
Pullman porters' union fight. He
says that action to compel the Pull
man company to abide by the provi-
sions of the Railway Labor act which
it has flagrantly flouted and AFRO
gantly defied, will be started by the
brotherhood. The precedent in the
Texas case materially strengthens
the grounds upon which the porters'
union will rest it's case.
General Organizer Randolph also
points out that the recent decision
of Supreme Court Justice Wasser-
fogel denying the Interborough Rapid
Transit company's petition for an in
junction against the American Fed
Grafton of Labor to prevent it from
organizing the employees of the COM
pany, was another great victory of
organized labor over the autocratic
company union. The judge condemn
ed the contract made by the company
union with the company on the
grounds that the agents of the COM
pany union were not free. The same
situation exists with the company
union of the Pullman porters, says
Randolph. The contract of the en-
ployee plan is unlawful and will be
set aside by court action. Confidence
of an ultimate victory are expressed
by General Organizer Randolph.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The monitor., 1928-02-24

John Q. Tilson, floor leader, Conn. |;
Nicholas Longworth, speaker, Ohio
George P. Darrow, Pa; Edward E.
Denisan, Illinois; Nicholas j. Sinnott,
Oregon; Allen T. Treadway, Massa-
chusetts; Walter H. Newton, Mime
sofa; Homer Hoch, Kansas; Frederick
r. Lehlbach, New Jersey; S. Wallace
Dempsey, New York; Royal G. John
son, South Dakota.
The monitor., 1928-02-24
new CLAIMANTS
s200,0C0 ESTATE OF
LATE NEBRASkAN
Two Chicagoans Claim Relationship
to Illiterate Ex-Slave and Land
holder Who Died Four
Years Ago
SEVERAL SUITS NOW PENDING

New claimants appeared Monday
for the 200 thousand dollar estate of
an Iliterate ex-slave, who died at
David City, Neb., in March, 1924.
A Chicago Associated Press dis
patch told of suit entered by Herford
Porter and Robert Breckenridge, Ne
groes, who claim to be cousins of
George W. Mattingly, the former
slave. Theirs is only one of num-
ber of claims to the property, which
was left by Mattingly, according to
an unsigned will offered for probate
in David City, principally to County
Judge 1. T. McCaskey and Charles
Bennison, banker there.
Although the Chicago cousins say
the property left is worth two mil
lion dollars, this is secuted in David
City. There the ex-slave left about
four hundred acres of land, some city
lots and some personal property, the
value of which has not been listed.
Suits are pending in the federal court
at Lincoln, Neb., and hearing is
scheduled for March, to find the
rightful heirs.
The monitor., 1928-02-24

Mrs. Breckenridge, believing her
cause good, engaged another attor-
ney, a Negro lawyer named jackson,
said to be one Of the most successful
in practice in Chicago and he is press
ing her claim.
Twenty-one persons, who have set
up claim at one time or another to
the estate, are named defendants in
Mrs. Breckenridge's suit.
Judge McCaskey at David City
recently said that he had helped Mat
tingly in legal matters and that he
had left but small portion of the
property.
Part of the estate, according to
David City records of the will, was
left to Elias Mattingly of Marion
county, Kentucky, and Joseph Mat
tingly of Sholes, Neb. The latter has
since died. Both were said to be
brothers of the dead man.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10
School Girls Dislike Domestic
Science Courses
Will wives Of Future Be Versed in Can Opening Only'

frrTrr furry among teachers in Washingtons public
- schools over reports that sewing cooking and manual
4arinr are to be abandoned subjects yields some IN
terstnr information touching the probable unfness OF
Imercan girls is future housekeepers.
Z 81 ~ : ths domestc sciences which instruct
=; honreAeninr cooking food values ETC. The preferences
are Overwhelmingly the domestic arssewng millinery
Costuming,s etc
choice the and like other grn IN O.ner c
The great majority avoid the domestic sciences They are Tar
more interested in dress questions -.
High school girls universally incline 70 tine ioea
that the Canopener of serving food Is good enough
for themselves their future husbands and children ana 1na
better for them TO know how 70 oress wen IMAM ~ ~
now to cook well.
School authorities regard the situation serious and there
Il a inclination to require elementary amount Of knowledge
Of domestic subjects before girls viii pc allowed g
graduate That would make Il 0DhgatoTy 70 FeCslVe
10 many minds the modern tendency to shun housekeeping
and cooking is more than serious It Is grave.
Scientists and physicians day giving warnings On
the evils Of unbalanced foods for children and
adults Galleries and food values e tnsy pear upon ~
importance any other subjecmore important tnan arg
numbers Of taught schools and studied outside scnoo
and colleges.
r American boys and girls are to be healthy and robust the
food they get must balanced in the daily menus whether
from cans 81 otherwise Who should know how to 90
this but American mOthsEs9 How WI Tnes m0'nsfs kn0w
Dieetc experts assembled in convention IN Baltimore oecLe
that statistics reveal that nearly al American en
and moor are improperly fed resulting IN numerous amens
that vitality affect their physical futures There are defclen
cies much Of the mineral elements 1t one Tune
for example; too little at another, and so on
Not only i there lack Of balance food values especially
in vegetables, destroyed in cooking.
School authorities Of Washington will not eliminate mruc
4ons in sewing cooking manual training from the lower
Il = n. h schools Their inclination At present
making the study Of domestic science oDnga1oly ON Mgn
sehool pupils They do not like the idea Of Washington
mothers Of the future being openers with no know
edge Of food values and Housekeeping.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10
THIS OR THAT
BY DIR. Frank Crane

Tx Warrington Times print day. for
article by the late Dr. Frank Crane These
hadbs this IN adOance
FoNTAINE poezed the fable the Ant and the Grass
- that he had laid for winter the asked
hat you doing all SUMNER? II have been singing
grasshopper. Then dance all winter replied
the ant
This can't everything can't
play every instrument in the orchestra have this can't
have that.
collecting specimens the American Museum of
Natural History, buried on Mount Mikeno in Uganda
related that while another trip he killed his biggest
gorilla this mountain. Looking down him he said Il
envy his funeral pyre. wish could buried here
when die"
Akeey choice, after life of would
decided thrills His sayathome fellows decided
of comforts Each gained something and lost something
by his. decision
John Ruskn somewhere: DO that
this you can't read that"
what is Of reading true Of everything else
At the long crossroads, which hfe have make
choice We can't go both
We have to choose this or that
between exploring strange lands and enjoying
home well between thousands Of other things
In there arem who
is the rich who given his making money
and the who has been companion to his children and
Z bookkeeper all his life.
There those who spent their they went had
time and in old camped the queruous and unwilling
and those who scrmped in old
sespec and the rheumatism that kept them from enjoying
wealth.
It altogether fitting proper every should be
make fool of himself peases.
should be single restriction Otherwise the lid is off.
complaining because he didn't what paid
had good time while others put longer
he can't kick they get money greater
II he danced while they studied he can't cay
know than he does. And down the list
The Of being complaining becaus
others have the cake they saved when have eaten
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10
new CHURCH. NEw ARcHTEcTURE, NEw THOUGHT
a Church of Caryed Cement

This interesting church deliberately with
ings erected the friendship Of Belgium
and France . small Paris Elzabethvne
Architects builders and big corporations that control the
cement industry Of this country will all be interested in this
idea opening up fresh possibilities of architecture
The front of the church statues carved in
soft cement twelve hours after it poured.
The sculptor Sarrabezolos worked rapidly and brilliantly
controlling the pouring of the have it always
at the right degree Of softness for his work.
Hardened and reinforced this strange church with
idea will stand indefinitely and its plan offers architects
possibilities
The sculptor, you ask him do So will build for some
enerprsng American preacher church representing one
single figure of st. Peter Of the Divinity Itself
An elevator could take worshppers chapel the head
the giant statue the lower parts Of the body well lighted
with windows being devoted to offices other remuneravs
purposes.
Everything changing including architecture and its pos
sibiles unlimited.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
-By d. Brice Belden-

CONSCIENCE - mental quail
" ity we All possess, although in
some conscience il stronger than
in others.
often it Il spoken OF rs b small,
tiny voice that tells us whether
we are about to commit wrong or
1t accuses us when somehow we
have turned from the proverbial
straight and narrow" path. In
other words. we think OF CON
science as q separate and distinct
mental faculty--like memory or
reasoning acts as coln-
selor and guide to moral conduct.
Conscience, however, 10 not as
easy to classify psychOlogicalIy as
that. Indeed, 1t h difficult to de-
fine just what 1t Ii, although 1t is
easy enough to recognize its work.
ings and its influence upon us.
Whether the individual ID pri-
marily moral, immoral or immoral
depends partly upon his native in.
telligence possibilities at birth and
partly-probably much the greater
part-upOn his environment and
training. A ehild's bringing.up has
q great deal to do with the way
that child conducts himself when
an adult and with the degree to
which, both as q child and adult,
he realizes wrong-dping and appre-
ciates the highest moral stand.
ards.
1t In q fact also that changes
in the functions OF the body may
affect q persons morality. Indi.
gestion may cause children to be
naughty. Perfect functioning OF
ali the organs of the body makes
for, good behavior.
However, conscience Ia q recOg-
milton Of wrong doing or wrong
thinking by the Individual himself
rather than an incentive to doing
and thinking right. For there are
those who have q strong con.
science sense and yet are evil,
while many moral, well-behaved
individuals do not have the con.
science sense 50 well developed.
Usually, though, the man or
woman whose conscience is strong
is not as likely to commit trans
gressions as the one whose con-
science is weak.
The reason for this is the nag
g1ng, Self-accusatory quality OF
conscience. 1t keeps on pointing
the finger OF accusation and re-
peats, over and over again, You
are guilty"
Many q criminal has turned
himself over to the police because
he could not stand his conscience.
When conscience insists it under
mines the strongest wills.
Sometimes people accuse them
selves needlsssly for fancied wrong
doing or their conscience exagger-
ates the enormity OF their guilt.
A child may take q cookie from
the kitchen without permission
and worry about it for days and
months.
Another may suffer the deepest
kind Of sorrow for so small an
offense. AZ obtaining a piece OF
chocolate out OF a slot machine
without depositing the cent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10

and brown, each living by its own
peculiar plan and creed
Each thinking that all other
plans are wrong
And hardly ever meeting on
one common ground.
But there's an hour when all
think as one
That hour when night falls In q
gentle flood.
And lamps are lighted In the
palace and the shack,
Then for a moment all men
dream alike
And know one common hunger
of the heart.
Then each man longs to take
the l1omeward trail.
And see his hearth light burning
warm and clear.
And find his woman waiting at
the door.
This life il strange and ugly,
often cruel
But somehow there Is comfort
in the thought that for one gentle
hour of each hard day we share
that simple, lovely dream OF home.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10
ONCE-OVERS

course your married partner whom dislike
But should be cast aside because OF this
Perhaps that "did marry the whole family
True enough but when married assumed certain obga-
lions toward the members family which you married
You must expect home to be open to your lnaws your
husband wife wishes o entertain them
Relatives side the other stir UP trouble however,
Some relatives laxative and some are nosSy ana
critical
have relative kind it is duty to stand by
husband forbddng him her the freedom
of home.
No how the family there conditions
where relative should be permitted to break up the harmony
OF nome and SOW dscord between husband ana VIE
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10
Do You Know

No Jews will be given employ
ment on street cars in Warsaw
az long az Gentle workers are
j obtainable.
A History building Is to be
erected in Manchester, England.
The structure viii be the first
skyscraper in the country.
The Greek government Is con-
sidering 4 plan, to convert the IA
NOUS Achillelon of Corfu into a
gambling resort rivaling Monte
Carlo.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10

II
crossing Georgia.
An hour ago the hills and trees
were rudy with the sun. Now
they are pools OF shadow and
the sky Is gray and still. Only
behind file OF slender pines one
band OF orange flames. And at
their feet, half hidden in the
shade, a little light burns in the
window OF clay chinked shack.
A narrow trail winds through
the darkening fields and on the
trail man is plodding. His tired
face is lifted toward the light as
he nears. the door is opened and
a woman waits to meet him with
his baby in her arms. The mans
feet quicken-then the door is
closed. The band of light has
faded from the sky--the trees and
fields are lost within the night
but in the shack the little light
still burns.
Such a great country, North,
East, West and South
SO many people with SO many
aims--
White faces, black, yellow. red
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Match correctly:
1 Hour John Galsworthy
Thomas
g. The Charles Dickens
a William v. Moody
g. Martin Chuzzlewit Joseph Hergesheimer
Do you know:
g. What is anodyne?
Z Who made the first incandescent lamp!
Which Presidents Just ne1ore
beginning of the Civil War?
What city in Arabia is celebrated the birthplace OF
Mohammed?
What sailors related the arabian
Nights 2"
IL. In what direction do planets rotate?
II What Is meant when a person is called Spartan!
Complete these quotations:
13. Mature, they say doth dote
And cannot make a man
Save plan
Repeating by -"-Lowell
a. "Of making books is no end; and much
is a WEAKNESS Of the fesh"-Bble
Is. "John IS body lies a Wondering in the grave,
His soul marching on."--Bishop.
Answers on Fiction Page
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10

Lo. what golfer complainant at
the ringing of the alarm clock, or
waiteth to be called unto seven
times seven times?
Nayay, he arfseth at dawn, and
sneaketh out of the house. while
the family yet reposeth. He
maketh his own coffee and COM
plaineth not He fortifieth himself
at the font within his locker, and
all the world looketh rosy!
Optimism is his middle name;
and, in his bright lexicon, there IL
no such word as rain"
The Crouch knoweth him not;
and dyspepsia is a stranger unto
him. His liver worketh more beau.
tifulIy than q new car, and his
figure keepeth it's slenderness, and
symmetry. Emnonpoint cometh
not nigh unto him.
other men may vent their morn
ing-after grouehes upon their
wives; but the golfer bloweth off
the carbon of his brainstorms in
the open, where 1t is safe. His
moods and his completes are
known only to his God and caddy!
other husbands may be full of
alibis and deviousness. But the
golfer confineth all his lying to
boasting of his GAME. and de-
ceiving, his fellow players. He
hath no imagination left!
Yet his wife feeleth no jealousy.
whatsoever his wanderings and
howsoever long his absence. For
she knoweth that he prefereth a
pleasant day and beautiful
course unto a. moonlight night and
a. beautiful woman.
And a word of approval from
his caddy is more thrilling unto
him than the smiles OF 90 sirens.
Go to. Every man hath his pet
folly, whereby he worketh off the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10

Lo, what golfer complainant at
the ringing Of the alarm clock, or
waiteth to be called unto seven
times seven times?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10

Optimism is his middle name;
and, in his bright lexicon, there Ii
no such word as rain"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10
LISTEN, WORLD!
One Hour When All Meet
By Elsie Robinson

TT twilight train 1 ) brown each living
i crossing Georgia. peculiar plan and creed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10

The countenance Is the portrait
of the soul, and the eyes mark ito
Intentionally Cicero.
He who tenders doubtful safety
to those Ia trouble refuses it,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10
SAYINGS OF
MRS. SOLOMON
MY Daughter. waste not thy pity
WI upon the Golf Widow.

For. verify, her lot Is easy, and
All her ways are ways of pleasant-
ness,
Go to. Other wives may have
their sorrows and Affections. But
where GOLF is, there Is sweetness
and Highland q good digestion!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

The resolution to avoid an evil
is seldom framed till the evil is
ance impossible. Hardy.
For the will and not the gift
makes the giver. Leasing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10
Hearst Papers Advocate:

Il An agreement ot Epgtsh-spedkSng peoples to pre-
serpe peace among themselves and to promote the
peace 0f the sOorId
q Proportional representation IN the United States
Senate no State to haze less than tpUO Senator's.
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
pOrtiOnmegst IN the House Of Representatives..
g. "A separate Department of the Army OF the Macy
and Of the Air Forces, all united under Secretary
Of National Defense.
T. Federal action to the limit Of Federal pofCers to
abolish Slterdcy the United States under Score
tGry Of EducatiOm
& Election of Congress IN November. InstanGtoM on
the 1st OF January following. Inauguration OF the
President 1st Of January merit after Nouember
election.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10

original sin within him. And some
choose wine and some tobacco and
some choose love and some choose
poker. But GOLF exceedeth them
all!
For the golfer Is son of JOY;
and no man can be both serious
golf player and foolish husband!
Selahl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-06
Communists Alone Aid Struggle for Race
Equality
Equality

This campaign of anti-Negro
propaganda aud villification in
dulged in, in order to placate the
south, is part of the stock in trade
of the democratic party also. Not
only is the role of the two parties
the same-service to the capitalist
class, their method of hoodwinking,
deceiving and cajoling the working
class is alike. On the issue of keep
ing the Negro in his "place," both
parties show complete unity. They
are the parties Of the X. X. K, the
American Legion and other terroris-
tic organizations. In their campaign
program not word is written about
the special abuses which is the lot
of the Negro in this democracy"
except few hypocritical words ut
tered by the republican party about
the necessity of a federal law
against lynching. This, in spite of
the fact that republican congress
more than once defeated the Dyer
anti-lynching bill. y
In order completely to assure the
south that they are safe Tin the
southern sense) on the Negro ques-
ton, both presidential candidates
are as silent as the Sphinx on this
burning issue. The "gentlemen's"
agreement that exists between the
parties of big business, to keep the
Negro at the bottom of capitalist
society, to Cypress and exploit him,
is becoming increasingly evident to
intelligent Negro workers. The old
game Of putting up Negro candi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-06
(Continued.)

(C0nt17ined.
Fighters are now equipped with
very complicated equipment, includ-
ing wireless by which the squadron
leader can transmit orders to his
"men." The last of the machines
of war period design (the d. H. g.
general purposes" type) are being
scrapped, and modern machines are
being supplied at the rate of about
$50 per year.
So much for the general posi-
ton; nearly twice as many planes
per 1000 rifles, most of these
planes about twice as dangerous
to the aeroplanes, troops, or civil
ans they will be used against: the
new types, fully equipped, rapidly
replacing the old.
Why is the Hawther "Horsley''
machine the standard day bomber
of the r. A. F.? 1t is not nearly
so fast as the Fairey "Fox."
The answer is that the "Fox" can
not go far enough. The Hershey"
is capable of flying from England
to India without touching the
ground, and has actually flown non-
stop from England to the Persian
Gulf. N
In other words, it is capable of
bombing Moscow from Poland,
Finland. or Roumania, and getting
back again. And that is the thing
that the leaders of the r. A. f.
lie awake at night too long for!
IN the same way, the first of new
sort of air craft has been produced
in England. 1t is Eight fighter"
called the Blackburn "Lyncock. J"
No other country has produced any
thing similar. The engines in most
fighting scouts run from $50 to
500 h. p, the "Lyncock" has an
engine of only 200 h. p., yet it is
almost as fast as most of the mo-
dern fighters, at moderate heights,
and only costs half as much to make.
Why has this machine (Which
would not stand much chance
against the modern 500 h. p.