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AN UP-TO-DATE UNCLE TOM

all of the time. He comes pretty
nearly fooling all the white people
and thereby finds himself sin pow
err" And finally when some "un-
fooled" Colored person calls him an
Uncle Tom or a "me-too, Boss" per-
sonage, he winces and calls his crit
les that awful name of being a "radi-
CAL"
Such is a picture of a prototype
of too many NEGRO leaders. Of
course, it is the result Of hangover
from slavery when a smart Negro
found that he could play upon the
masters vanity and credulity and
get results.
But today there is no one all
ment so serious with Negroes than
just this type of reactionary, sell
fish leadership. The main trouble
is that it does not get us anywhere.
It constantly yells don't rock the
boat" but the boat isn't moving. II
is primarily a selfish leadership be-
cause it is usually well paid, while
the reformer, the man who pioneers
is generally poorly paid and often
/ udnlileu. AOfSef NdlloH ROcS llISl 1Oi
its own comfort.
There is another fault: this mod
ern Uncle Tom type does harm tC
the white group eventually, because
his misrepresentation and cajoling:
are finally exposed and the true
wants and aspirations of his people
are made known. But some white
people would rather be fooled, would
rather be Kept believing that the Ne
gro is still an antebellum person
than to know the real truth.
Surely here in America there ha.
been too much of this selfish keep
m-right-where-t are, Pm get
! 4;,u ~ I'M laaIarcb;,
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BY William N. Jones

Young men and women ponderng
the reason for the present depres-
sion. the discord of nations, and the
conflicting forces of right and wrong
which keep human beings discordant,
might review the history of little
village on a stream once called the
Tiger River in the Piedmont section
of South Carolina near where this
writer was born.
1t has been slightly more than a
quarter of a century since modern
civilization and the original Ku klux
Khan wiped out that village OF some
three hundred white and colored
souls which somewhat generous
hearted slave owner had established
by parceling out his plantation to
them after Lincoln signed the Eman-
cipation Proclamation.
Forty-five newly emancipated slave
families and fifteen poor white
families made up the vilalge, and
for at least twenty-five years lived
peaceful existence there. And, yes,
reader, thar was happiness in them
thar hills" until a Ku Klux Khan
aang from a neighhoring community
planted terror and hell there one
night.
My mother, now sleeping beneath
! the sod, often told me the story OF
that night Her father had served
on a grand jury which indicted a
white man who had come into the
community and committed crime.
That night these hooded riders from
another town came and the family
fled to the woods. Some of them
never saw each other again and
brother showed up fifteen years later
with one leg. The remnant of the
family gathered finally to live at
Glen Springs.
shall never forget that story
and perhaps, like Indians, / shall
never forget white people; but back
to those hills.
No Problems of Economics There
There being no differnece of liv'
ing between white and colored fam
lilies ON those farms, there was little
color prejudice. White and colored
families worked in each others fields
borrowed each others salt and boys
of both races "tussled" together and
went in swimming in the same swim
ming hole
Every family had its own land
raised the same things, killed hogs
about the same time, and when they
laid by" their farms they hunted
and fished together. There was need
for but little money, for every family
had its own smoke house. potato
bank and mich COW. All took theil
corn to the same MILL
When someone killed a "yearling
or couple of sheep, the meat wal
passed around to all families, white
and colored, in a kind of communis
tic way. This process going around
served to keep fresh meat suppl!
most of the year. If the mich COW
OF one family went dry, the othel
families supplied that one with mill
without cost.
At wodd-cutting time. all th'
younger men, white and colored
went TO the woods and cut the win
ters supply of wood for all. Follow
ing the harvest time, with the eottoi
picked, the food for the winter al
stored. everybody Laid by for thu
three months of December, Januar.
and February
There were no idle rich. and con
sequently no envy and bread lines
There was no high powered industry
and consequently no human exploi
tation. The surrounding peonag'
of the slave driving South Caroline
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Richmond Has 1864
COlOred Employed

RICHMOND, Va. - Figures COM
piled August ! showed that of the
s3,7S2 gainfully employed persons in
Richmond on that date, 1928 were
colored women and 1926 were col
ored women.
The report shows that there were
a. the same time employed in Rich
mond 40,097 white men and 16,997
white women. A total of 880,276 per-
sons were gainfully employed in the
state out of a population of 1872
83S over ten years of age.
Richmond's unemployed at the
time the census was taken numbered
SAP. There were at that time 3d.
$50 unemployed persons in the state
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The ANTI ePriests

Those who wondered why the new
movement to defeat Congressman
Oscar DePliest was launched in
Washington recently did not have
long to wait for an answer.
Washington press bureaus an
nounced last week that the anti
DePriest movement is backed by the
Hoover administration. Reason: Mr..
DePriest by voting for himself for
Speaker of the House. will imperil
the G, o. P. grip on the House.
The second reason is: Mr.. De-
Priest in addresses all over the coun-
try advises the people to vote for
the best man irrespective of party.
Everybody knows that Mr.. De-
Priest does not want the Democrats
to run the House. But he does want
black BOYS in West Point and An
napolis, black officers and full en-
listment in the 9th, 10th Cavalry,
oath and 25th Infantry, and if his
confreres wont give them to him,
he'll make deal with the Democrats.
Mr.. DePriest is the most astute
politician we have ever had in Con-
gress. Mr.. Hoover realizes this and
acts accordingly. The way to get rid
of Mr.. DePriest is to run somebody
against him in the next primary. Mr..
Louis B. Anderson of Chicago has
been chosen.
According to the press, Mr.. Hoo
yer has called off his program to re-
model the COP. in the South and
make it lily white. Mr.. Perry w.
Howard, of Mississippi and Mr.. Hen
ry Lincoln Johnson Jr., of Georgia
are to be taken back into the Hoo
yer fold.
As a reward for this White House
benefaction, Mr.. Howard, says the
press statement, will lead a battle
against Mr.. DePriest.
Associated with him will be Mr.. r
r. Church, Tennessee; Henry Lincoln
Johnson Jr., Georgia; j. Finley vii,
son, Washington. D. c.: Perry B
jackson, Cleveland; J. Harris Gains
Illinois.
MIR. Howard was discredited by
Mr. Hoover and prosecuted by tn,
Department of Justice for Job sell
ing. The governments attorney wa.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt. but Mis-
sissippi jurors sided with Mr.. How
ard against this crowd of Northern
ers 'swho have come down here Il
run Mississippi" Mr. Howard, i
seems. is ready now to make FRIENDS
with Mr.. Hoover in. order to handle
patronage and campaign funds there
That in so doing, we lose the hes
Congressman we ever had doesn'
seem to matter much to the politi
clans.
Fortunately Mr.. DePriest is n,
novice. Mr.. Howard viii be NOR
than apt to find that the Honorable
Oscar is no Mabel Walker Willie
brandt, and the battle will not b.
waged in Mississippi either.
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English

Words Often Misuaed
Do not say, tThev are not anv
use to You" Say, mot of any use"
Words Often Misspelled
Deceive; Ell not lie.
Words Often Mispronounced
Clematis. Pronounce klem-a-tis.
as in "men." unstressed. as in
st" and accent first syllable, not
the second.
synonyms
Trespass, encroach, infringe, in
wade
Word Study
LUDICROuS; exciting laughter;
ridiculous: 1T placed me in q ludi.
erous predicament.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
Guarding the Seas.

The centennial of its existence has
been recently celebrated by the officials
Of the United States photographic ONCE
Of the Navy. One hundred years ago
the ONCE was established under Lieut..
L. M. Goldsborough as depot Of charts
and Of two officers and one nautical
expert. It now has working force Of
IL oficers and $50 civilians and 19
branch Offices In the continental United
States In charge Of 20 officers and "a
civilians. The office has 100000 charts
and 100000 manuals and books ready
for issue. On its correspondence list
are 1000 mariners and aviators Of all
nationalities. The Office also sends out
by naval radio broadcast information
concerning dangers to navigation, con-
ducts photographic surveys and main
tains a section of static research, which
hopes through experiments to locate the
center Of West Indies hurricanes soon
after their formation and predict their
path.
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District National Guard

Organizations Of the local militia in
the classification of superior in attend
ance showed q drop Of nearly so per
cent this week, as compared with last,
according to the weekly drill report
compiled at brigade headquarters. Only
four of the units mustered Suf1cient
men to reach this highest group, which
is headed by the Medical Department OF
the 121st Regiment Of Engineers, with
95.23 per cent of its personnel present.
The others were the 29th Division Mill
tary Police Company with q percentage
Of 9310; Band, 121st Engineers, 9O.62,
and Battery z, 26oth Coast Artillery,
90.27.
The other organizations, in their re-
spective classifications, with percentages,
follow:
Excellent: Headquarters Detachment,
29th Division, 80 So; State Detachment,
SO. SO; Headquarters Detachment and
Combat Train, 260th Coast Artillery,
5000.
Very satisfactory: Company A, 372d
Infantry, 1887; Battery B, 260th Coast
Artillery, 1880; Headquarters Detach-
ment, Special Troops, 29th Division,
$500; Company C, 121st Engineers,
73.43; Headquarters and Service Com
pany, 121st Engineers, 72.72; Company
A, i2lst Engineers, 71.83; Company B,
121st Engineers, 70.96; Medical Depart
ment Detachment, 260th Coast Artil-
lery, 7o.58; Company r, 121st Engi-
neers, 1000.
Satisfactory: Battery A, 260th Coast
Artillery, $685.; Company D, 121st En-
gineers, 64.5l; Company z, 12lst En-
gineers, 64.06.
Unsatisfactory: Battery C. 260th
Coast Artillery, 5s.74.
Private Morris j. Webster has been
ordered transferred from the Medical
Department Detachment, 121st Engi-
neers, to the 29th Division Military Po-
lice Company.
Private Marvin C. Bouldin has been
ordered transferred from the active to
the reserve list of the 29th Division
Military Police Company.
Private Vernon A. Thompson has
been ordered transferred from the re-
serve to the active list of Company A,
121st Engineers.
Upon the recommendation Of the
company commander, the following
promotions have been ordered in Com
pany r, 121st Engineers: Sergt Ernest
s. Atchison to be first sergeant and
Private Ralph p. Gilbert to be sergeant.
sergt. william C. Bowen, Company
D, 12lst Engineers, has been ordered
honorably discharged to permit him to
accept promotion by commission. He
has been commissioned q second lieu
tenant of Engineers and assigned to the
same unit for duty.
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Parent eacher Activities

which time guests Of honor included
Mrs. j. N. Saunders, president; Mrs.
G. 8. Rafter, past president Of the
District Congress; Mrs. David o.
Mears, Mrs. A. A. Birney, Mrs. Fred
Du Bots, Mrs. Hoffman Tolson and
Mrs. Virginia Blassingham, represent
ing the third division, PIT. A; Mrs.
Frank J. Metcalf, organizer and first
president Of Truesden; Mrs. E. l..
Berry, Mrs. Flanagan, Mrs. Mueller
berg, Mrs. Clark. Private Lutz OF the
thirteenth police precinct, IN charge OF
patrol boys, gave talk.
Jane Barry and Jane Howard gave
a recitation, and Miss SearleS kinder
garten orchestra played several selec-
tons.
Miss Sarah ". Hollands class won
the canary for largest attendance OF
parents
Miss Searle's study group will meet
March 4 at 1890 pm. in the school.
Rewards and Punishments" will be the
subject discussed.
Central High.
The February meeting of the asso-
citation had as its guest speaker, Judge
Kathryn Sellers of the Juvenile Court.
Blake GaIes-SeatOn.
Blake Gales-Seaton Association OBJ
served the anniversary of Founders
day February "a. DR.. Margaret M.
Nicholson, child specialist. gave lee
ture. Miss CAROLS pupils entertained
with a puppet show. Miss Dlger.
supervising principal; Mrs. T. H.
Young and Mrs. Hawkshurst made
addresses. Mrs. Zones announced q
luncheon to be given March 8 at the
Seaton School to raise money for the
milk fund.
EdmOnds -Maury.
The Edmonds- Maury Association will
hold an indoor golf party at 1918 F
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American Legion

Thursday at the home of Quartermaster
Ella e. Chambers, 1400 Chaplin street.
The regular monthly meeting of the
post will be held March at the
Thomas Circle Club.
The Braille Glass meets each Tues
day evening at the Red Cross, Seven
tenth street, between d and E streets.
Commander Helen l.. Sprague has
appointed q committee of three for the
purpose of revising the posts constitu-
ton and bylaws. This COMMITTEES met
at the home of Past Commander
Mayme Smith, in Lyon Village, Va,
last Saturday and will meet again at
Post Commander Breen'S home, IA F
street southeast next Wednesday night,
at which time the committee hopes to
complete its work and be prepared to
present the revisions to the post at its
next meeting for acceptance. Comrade
Kate K. Briggs Is also on this COM
mittee.
The initial performance Of the or
chestra, composed Of deaf children, was
by Comrade Briggs. They presented
program Of music In honor OF George
Washington's birthday at Fades Home
for the Aged, 1929 N street.
The bowling team meets on Friday
evenings at the Y. w. G. A., Seven
tenth and X streets.
The Admiral Coontz Post of War
Mothers" recently organized, consists
of the mothers of ex-service men and
women who were enlisted in the Navy
and Marine Corps during the World
War. The post has five mothers as
charter members of this post. They
are Mrs. Brown, mother Of Past Com
mander Mayme Smith; Mrs. Loveless,
mother Of Past Commander Lucille
Allan; Mrs. Breen, mother Of Past
Commander Jane Breen; Mrs. Weide,
mother of Comrade Mary 2. Weide,
and Mrs. Cox, mother Of Commander
Helen Spfague.
Members of the post met at the Red
Cross last Tuesday to assist in making
garments for the drought sufferers and
will continue to assist In this work
as long as there is need TO do so.
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street March 6, from z to IL O'Clock.
The Study Club will meet at Edmonds
School March 4, at 1880 d. m. Fol-
lowing this will be the regular meet
ing OF the Glee Club.
The executive committee will meet
tomorrow ct Maury School at
o'clock.
PetwOrth.
The speaker at the March meeting
of the, school auditorium at o'clock
Tuesday will be Miss Katherine r.
Lenroot, assistant chief Of the Chill
dren's Bureau, United States Depart
ment Of Labor. Piano selections by Miss
Thelna Callahan and reading by her
features Of the social program.
Langley.
The association met February % with
a conference with teachers. The Har-
monica Club, under the direction of
Miss Evans, gave selections. Joe
Bradley and Ralph Higdon played
solos and the Whit Brothers, Evelyn
Carey and James Bale played duets.
Miss Haslups section 7-B 102 had the
largest representation of parents with
Miss Gibbs section TIA 203 a close Sec
ond Chester w. Holmes, principal,
made an address.
Park View.
safety first" teaching the child self
protection, will be illustrated in a
sketch presented by Miss Grace Meyers,
dramatic teacher, and Mrs. George Cor
bin, safety chairman, at the Park View
Platoon School Association in the
auditorium next Thursday evening.
A nominating committee will an
nounce candidates for election in April.
There will be community singing and
a special musical program by Mrs. w.
H. Wagner, music chairman, and Mrs:
Marlowe, pianist. Mrs Nora K. Bramell
will give q reading.
At recent meeting, Past Presidents
Mrs. Thomas e. Grifith and Mrs. r.
n. Prescott received past president pins.
The presentation speech was made by
Mrs Giles Scott Rafter. past president
of the District Of Columbia Parents
and Teachers.
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and expansion. Both networks, how
ever, will show rather small net incomes
when their operating costs and other
expenditures are announced, for the
simple reason that they have sunk ire
mendous sums into capital investments.
The N. B. c., for example, spent at
least 100000 on its magnificent new
Chicago studios, and is spending con-
siderable on its subsidiary Radio Music
Co. Columbia has purchased part or
full interest in a number of broadcast
ing stations and only last month nego-
tiated deal whereby it merged seven
leading concert bureaus into the Column
bia Concerts Corporation.
These are only the early figures on
the business of broadcasting by the
American plan of sponsored programs.
Only the figures representing the net
works income from time sold are off,
cial. Yet they tell an eloquent story:
Network broadcasting's income from
space" sold increased AZ per cent over
1929; newspaper lineage, according to
preliminary estimates of Editor and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

Publisher, dropped IA per cent under
1929.
Speedily and surely the broadcasting
business is taking its place as major
factor in American advertising. If the
estimate of $780, 100000 for time sold
and talent cost for sponsored programs
by all networks and stations combined
Is anywhere near correct, it is signifi-
cant to compare that figure with the
recent statement of the United States
Bureau of the Census that more than
| 81 loo, 100000 was spent in 1929 for
advertising in American newspapers and
periodicals.
Radio advertising accounts come and
go, and the broadcasters are finding
their business profitable at last after
years of experiment, expense, loss and
uncertainty. Efforts are made to sell or
gain good will for nearly every product
under the sun, but 1t is automatic in
broadcasting circles that some products
simply are not adaptable for radio adj
vertising. The broadcasters insist that
they are not encroaching upon other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

S, inpoluntarily. Her mother Just push
ed her on the stage with instructions
to do her song and dance number. she
did because she was too frightened 70
run.
That was the beginning Of her stage
career. For several years she studied
near Broadway and sang with the
Schumann Club at Aeolian Hall and
also with church choirs. Later she
toured In vaudeville with Carrie Jacobs
Bond, American composer, and was
glorified in q Ziegfeld chorus.
In the meantime she had married.
and had one child, Joan. That mar
rage, however, turned out badly, so the
singer joined the light opera company.
When that went on the rocks early In
1929 she felt ready to quit the show
business forever. But one day there
came q telegram offering her an as
Intuitively she accepted, and has found
greater happiness in her work than
ever before, singing songs that vary
from popular ballads to operate artas.
A SSOCIATE JUSTICE OLIVER
IA WENDELL HOLMES Is to be hon
ored on his ninetieth birthday in
q broadcast on March 8, sponsored by
the Columbia and Harvard University
Law Reviews and the Yale Journal.
The Columbia network, with WAdAL
included. viii broadcast the program.
The speakers will include Chief Justice
Charles e. Hughes and Charles A. Bos-
ton, president of the American Bar
Association. Justice Holmes Is ex-
pected to make q response.
y
nR. ALBERT EINSTEINS farewell
u1as9aCa IN Amariea AelfverAd an
the eve of his departure for Berlin,
is to be broadcast by the Columbia sta
tons Wednesday night at 10 o'clock.
It win come from banquet in honor
Of the scientist to be given By the
American Palestine Campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

A resolution of the American Legion
to the Polish government, through the
Polish Ambassador, Tytus Filipowicz,
concentrating the services to Poland
of DR.. Paul Fitzsimmons Eve in the
struggle of freedom in 1880, was made
at the Polish embassy.
The presentation was made by Nath-
aniel Spear, jr., Of Pittsburgh, Pa, who
was appointed by National Comdr.
Ralph T. O'Neil to represent the ma
tional organization of the Legion. He
was accompanied by John Thomas Tay-
lor, vice chairman of the Legionis Ma
tional Legislative Committee.
The executive board meeting Of the
American Women's Legion was held on
Monday morning at the Willard Hotel.
Mrs. Acheson r. HasSan, the president,
gave an account of the George Wash
ington ball and card party, February
10, at the Marine Barracks, for the
benefit Of veterans. Gen. Ben Hebard
Corps, and Mrs. Fuller, received with
Mrs. Hassan.
Several members Of Sergt. Jasper Post
attended the exercises at the foot Of
Washington Monument last Sunday
morning at which time a wreath was
placed at the foot of the Monument by
the District of Columbia Department
of the American Legion. The post was
also represented at the exercises held at
the Church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton Monday
The next meeting of the post will be
held Wednesday evening at the Thomas
Circle Club, 1926 Massachusetts, ave-
nue..
The annual pilgrimage Of members
Of George Washington Post, No. l, the
American Legion, to Mount Vernon
took place last Monday, when the
largest delegation in many years past
paid tribute to the first President 1T
the shrine on the Potomac River. The
trip was made in automobiles and on
arrival at the entrance to the grounds
the delegation formed in columns Of
twoS and, headed by William z. Por-
ter, commander of the post, and the
| post colors, marched to the tomb. After
brief ceremony Comdr. Porter placed
large wreath on Washington's tomb
and the return trip made.
The post Is completing plans for its
twelfth birthday anniversary March z
at the club house, 144l Rhode Island
! avenue.
Starting with the first meeting in
March, all members will be given an
opportunity to be rewarded on March
/, 1882, with citations for 100 per cent
attendance records during the year. A
record of attendance at all meetings
win be kept by the post and every
member attending every meeting dur
ing the year will be presented with
citation at a special ceremony to be
arranged next year.
Vincent B. Costello Unit, No. Is,
held its regular business meeting
Tuesday at the Cairo Hotel. Plans
were completed for a benefit card party
to be held March 8 at 1850 Massa-
clusettS avenue at $3.50 pm.
The advisory council of y. 3. 3.
Jacob Jones Post No. 2 win meet next
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Canada Radio Control oueried.

Interprovincial radio rights have
doomed as a problem in Canada, with
the province Of Quebec questioning the
Dominion governments authority over
radio.
Questions raised are similar to those
raised in disputing the Federal Gov
ernment's autonomy in the United
States, where several of the 40 States
have claimed Jurisdiction against the
interstate commerce arguments of the
Federal Radio Commission.
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advertising media, but rather have Gre
ated new and supplementary field of
advertising, though there are convinc-
ing arguments pro and con. The net
works reveal that foods, drugs, radios,
tobacco, amusement and automotive
and financial accounts, in that order,
are their most prolific sources Of In
come. There Is no possibility Of cata-
loguing the local Independent accounts
by classes and amounts spent.