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The Washington times., 1933-03-03
By Elsie Robinson

you'll know it is common one,
but that doesn't make it any
easier for us who have to live it.
I'm 25. My girl is 20. We
have been in love with each
other since we were in Hi. For
five years we planned to marry
when I finished college.
But I wasn't able to finish
college. After the first year I
had to get out, for the folks
said they couldn't afford to
send me any more. I tried my
best to get odd jobs to carry
me through, but there were 500
fellows to every job.
Now we're not any nearer
marriage today than we were
five years ago. We both work
when we can find anything to
do, but I haven't had a real
position for three years. Nor
do I see much future ahead, as
haven't any trade or profes-
sion.
Yet the girl and I love each
other as much as ever. Haven't
we a right to that love? Isn't
it our right, even our duty, to
make a home and have
children?
Yet for hundreds of thousands
of young people Of our age,
love and marriage are ruled
out, unleSs-and this is the
point of my letter-UNLESS
OUR FOLKS HELP TO SUP
PORT US FOR A YEAR OR
TWO.
Neither of our families are
well off, but there's enough,
on both sides, to allow us to
marry if we're willing to work
hard and get along with very
little, which we are.
BUT OUR FOLKS CAN'T
SEE TT. THEY SAY WE
SHOULDN'T MARRY UNTIL
WE CAN SUPPORT OUR
SELVES.
But when will that be? When
we are too old to want to
marry, probably; or at least,
when the girl is too old to have
children safely? Must we
wait that long?
You know as well as I do
that lots of young people aren't
waiting. Some Of them are
getting married on the sneak.
Many aren't bothering with
marriage at all-just living to-
gether in free love. And some
are going in for any racket,
no matter how criminal, that
will help them get money.
We don't want to do that.
We want to marry young, and
to live clean, fine lives, as
our folks before us. But we
can't do it on our own, and
the folks won't help. So
what's the answer?
AL WILSON.
Well, what's the answer?
What's YOUR answer to those
youngsters and their parents?
If they were YOUR children,
or if YOU were AL and The
Girl, what would you do?
Copyright, 1888. King Features
.,-- aSnate6tSE- 4ns'A -
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ment with that tragic compro-
mise-FREE LOVE?
OR SHALL THEY, AS THE
WRITER OF THE FOLLOW
ING LETTER SUG GESTS,
TURN TO THE OLDER GEN
GRAFTON FOR SUPPORT?
IS TT THE DUTY OF THAT
OLDER GENERATION, WHO
HAVE MESSED THINGS UP,
TO SUPPORT THE YOUNGER
GENERATION UNTIL TT GETS
ON IT'S FEET?
That's a hard one to face,
isn't it? Yet a whole genera
tion of the human race is
facing it. Every day brings
scores of such letters to this
department: and in prison cells
and on morgue slabs you can
find the pitiful, broken remains
Of suicide.
AS you read this letter think
of those other young things.
Their frightened, discouraged,
desperate young eyes are turned
on you, waiting for your an.
swer. WHAT HAVE YOU TO
SAY TO THEM?
Dear Miss Robinson:
When you read our story
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LISTEN, WORLD!

You're wrong, Stranger.
Young people - millions Of
young people-are facing just
such tough luck everywhere.
No, they're not lazy, or stupid,
or choosey. They're smart and
willing; the finest crop Of
youngsters that the race has
ever produced. If they could
have their chance
BUT THEY HAVEN'T A
CHANCE! THEY'RE TRAP
PED-DEPRIVED OF THEIR
OPPORTUNITY BY THOSE
OF THE OLDER GENERATION
WHO HAVE BROUGHT THE
WORLD TO THE MESS IT'S
IN TODAY. NEVER HAS
YOUTH BEEN IN SUCH A
DILEMMA. THERE'S MANY A
TRAGIC SIGHT IN OUR
FRANTIC MODERN WORLD,
BUT NONE so TRAGIC AS
THE CHI E ATED GENERA
TON!
So, then, what?
Shall the youngsters pass up
marriage until they've saved
a nest egg"-which may mean
NEVER?
Shall they furtively expert
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Who and Where Are
These super-Men?

Prof. Philip Cabot, of the
Harvard School of Business
Administration, tells the
Economic Forum that all
might be well in the eco
nomic field were it not for
that dreadful thing de-
mocracy-which means the
rule based upon the theory
that governments derive
their just powers from the
consent of the governed. "
He is quite sure that all
would be well were the
righting of the world to be
left to a "small group" of
competent men.
This would be more con-
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Senate Exposed the
Oil 2candals

VII SO1440U4O
1t all depends on who the
small group is.
Now take that small
group in the United States
Senate which is anathema
to our NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ever that is. 1t represents
the people. We have just
had some revelations about
high finance, long overdue,
on which great and neces-
sary reforms will be built.
Who brought the revela-
tions?
The economists? The fl
nanciers? Big business? The
intelligentsia?
Not was the Senate.
It was the same Senate
that exposed the oil scan
dals, the power trust con-
spiracy to degrade the
schools and debauch the
professors.
Many years ago a small
group of men who were
brilliant and able, calling
themselves Federalists, un-
dertook to direct the des-
tinies of the American peo-
pie. They did some great
things-things that would
be of benefit to small
groups of men,. Some of
these great things were
beneficial to everyone bat
that was only incidental.
Had their program not been
upset in the peaceable demo
cratic revolution of 1900 the
economic destinies of the
whole people would have
been determined by a small
group. To blind the people
to what was going on they
passed a "sedition" law and
set to work with the aid of
a vicious Federal judiciary
composed of their rallies to
throw editorial critics of
their proceedings into jail
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The Dope Decline
A Blessing of Hard Times

The blessings of adversely often difficult to see, but
Commissioner Harry j. Ansnger Of the Federal Narcotic
Bureau points to result Of the present condition
which the American people can appreciate.
According to Commissioner Ansnger the recent scarcity Of
money has knocked the illicit dope trade in the head
Anything which accomplish that purpose is not an
unmitigated evil
But the statement Of Mr. Ansnger should not be allowed
to lull the public into false sense of security.
With the Improvement of present conditions those who prey
upon their fellow by fostering this vicious habit will
resume their activities
The lesson to be learned that while rejoicing in the present
curtamsnt Of the trade must make rigid the laws
which are designed to cope with the evil
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vincing, more easily ap-
praised had he given us his
list of C IN p e t e n t men.
Would he name a small
group of economists? 1t
would have to be very small
if it did not develop into
a Kilkenny catfight. The
economists do not agree.
Would it be the big finan-
ciers? In view of the con-
spicuous part they played in
bringing us where we are
this would only amuse the
vulgar in the street.
Would it be the great in
dustrialists? They have
done their full share of
laundering and seem in
capable of graphing with
. the problems they ought to
solve without interference
by the Government.
Who and where are these
super-men?-and super-men,
we assume, are confined to
those who despise the rule
of the people.
And on second thought,
we do not find any evil
dence of supervision re-
storing prosperity in nations
where democracy is under
the sword.
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/" The Small Groups
Of Men

We do not understand
that under democracy it is
impossible to summon the
best minds and the best ex-
perts to the formulation of
a policy. We need the ad-
vice of these experts, these
economists, but we do not
need their lash. We have
had small groups of men de-
vising and enforcing by
force a system of living on
the masses all through the
centuries, and we do not
recall, from our reading of
history, that mankind was
any the more prosperous or
happy on that account. We
seem to remember that so
bitter was the lot of the
great mass Of the people un-
der the domination of small
groups of men that the
masses finally rose in revolt
and determined to have
something to say about the
government under which
they lived.
Small groups Of men are
all right provided their
plans are passed upon by
the people.
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and longing
to hr W
yourself into
it's magnifi-
ce n t adven-
ture-
w H A T
w o U L D
YOU DO?
w h y,
that's easy" "
you S a y,
from the wis
dom of your
so years OF
e x p e r ience.
"I'd fini S h
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ITO WE V R depressing
Ill the existing conditions
no one can complain that
nothing of interest is going
on in the world. That was
a very interesting proposal
of Sir John Simon, the Brit
ish Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs, for an arms and am
munition embargo on China
and Japan. It will not he
accepted by the American
Congress, according to re-
ports, on the ground that
such an embargo would be
wholly in the interest of
Britain old ally, Japan.
For Japan has long been
preparing for a war in the
Far East and has stocked
with arms and ammunition,
and she is better prepared
than her unfortunate antago-
mist to manufacture both.
The more one thinks upon
this proposal of the British
Minister the stranger it
seems. Let us see just what
it means and does not mean:
Britain is a member of
the League Of Nations.
The League, including
Britain, has declared Japan
in the wrong, waging a war
of aggression, in violation
Of more than one solemn
treaty.
Japan ignores the ulti-
matum of the League
which includes Britain.
Under the covenant Of the
League one method pro-
vided, short of war, to
cripple an aggressor forcing
war, is to put an embargo
on arms and ammunition
intended for her.
It would be easy to un-
derstand how Britain, loyal
to the League, might pro-
pose an embargo On arms
and ammunition to Japan
but she proposes an equally
drastic measure against the
victim of the aggression.
Were the two warning ma
tions on equal terms this
would merely mean neutral
ity; but when the aggressor
is in better position to With
stand an embargo than is the
victim, the proposal is dis
tinctly in favor of the aggres-
sor.
That is the reason George
Lansbury, leader of the op-
position in the Commons. op-
poses the Simon plan. He is
willing to place an embargo
on Japan-the aggressor; he
is not willing to become an
inactive ally of Japan by
placing the same embargo
against China, the victim.
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MAYBE I'M WRONG!
By John P. MedburY.-

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March
3.-The Four Marx Brothers
bought a police dog last week
and it's keeping them guessing.
He's a one-man dog, and they
haven't been able to find out
vet which one is the man.
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Disturbing News:
"A Small Group of Men"
Bv Claude G.. BOpers

Author Of Party Jackson Period Struggle
Eor nemocracy in America" and Hamilton "The
Tragic Era" "Beveridge and the Progressive Era
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Vital Statistics

Some fan writes in and wants
to know what it costs for a
married man to live. That's
easy to figure out. Just add
about $50 a week to what YOU
RetI . i. g..
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Should the Old Folks Support
the NewlyWedS?

Suppose you we're 20-gold-
en-, glamorous 20-seeing the
world through rainbow mist
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hghbrow page of articles by learned and brilliant writer's
with deep thought at the top On last Tuesday, for
instance this Aer ideas you alter the world-H G.
Wells
How true that sounds how convincing But unfortunately
It is completely. To alter the WORLD you must alter
enlarge and improve the brains of fifteen sixteen hundred
million human beings that they may ACCEPT and understand
ideas All the revelations Of science have not killed the
brutality of superstition.
Fine sayings are deceptive Many praise the statement
Who rules freemen himself be Free Samuel John
said: You might well say Who drives fat must
himself be fat
The population Of Louisiana's State peni-
tenay that had doubled in four years will be less that
the has decided to release several hundred that
mot very bad boys and not habtual criminals.
isn't much the quality of mercy that releases these
prisoners the necessity relieving congestion and also the
desire to economize
It costs to watch and feed prisoners.
News Of the automobile industry is more
encouraging looking for pleasant raws in the wind
Alfred Sloan head Of General Motors expects the best
year that General Motors has since 1929.
Mr. Knudsen head of the big Chevrolet unit says 1--WE
building two thousand five hundred day. Sales
steadily mounting The output this month the largest since
July, 1881"
The automobile industry the best of prosperity
No American does without if he help it.
How would you like to be an American
farmer 1888? bulletin of the Blackburn College,
nvle Illinois, by W. G. Edens of Washington contains
this:
"As uUrite corn uuorth the elevator, in Car
lnUic, 13 cents, oats 10 cents lUheat 36 The
dairyren south of ship their milk in to St. Louis
and receiUe cents a gallon for it"
One cent and half for quart of milk 10 cents bushel
for OATS 13 cents for If something isn't done for the
farmer he will have to do something for himself.
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The One Thing the League
Hoped to Prevent

Hoped to Prevent
Another astonishing and
discouraging thin g for
friends of the League:
An Italian newspaper has
just published some secret
military treaties which are
creating a war psychology.
The exis tence of these
treaties means the formation
of alliances, offensive and de-
fensive.
And that is one thing the
League hoped to prevent.
Sooner or later, offensive
and defensive alliances mean
war.
And friends of the League
have understood that secret
treaties were prohibited; ; that
all treaties were to be made
public and filed at Geneva.
1t is discouraging to the
friends of the League to find
nations belonging to it vio-
lating its rules.
So much for the outside
world.
The Washington times., 1933-03-03

Seeing Hollywood Through
Kleig Eyes
One of those dumb extra girls
over at Paramount says she has
willed her brain to science. The
doctors are tickled to death;
every little bit helps.
Lowell Sherman says q Sic
ceSsful linguist is a man who
can bore you in any language.
First prize for the tightest
guy in the world goes to the
fellow who owned a whole rock
quarry and still tried to kill two
birds with one stone.
Jimmy F1nlayson q, is Holly
woods most economical actor.
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even the blind beggarS along
the boulevard have to keep
their eyes open.
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JUL y
Ten.SecOnd TaIkies

Ten-SecOnd TaIkies
Wheeler-Suppose man
should call you a liar; what
would you do?
Woolsey-What size man?
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Take It or Leave It
Competition is so keen among
the panhandlers out here that
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It is advisable to stay
Indoors on such stormy day,
And those outside had best come in
Before they're wet through to the skin.
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Social Accomplishments

Jack Okie is no longer run.
ming around with that subur.
ban girl. The railroad raised
the communication rates, so he
transferred to a town girl.
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''FreedOnn"
You read about the Philippines, the bill to
We Should KEEP Those Islands, HELP Them,
Make Them USEFUL

set them free, the veto the talk back and forth.
This nation helped to free the Fpnos from the ncompe
tent rule of span built roads and public schools protected
the people from neghbors that would gobble them up
Not satisfied, they want glorious FREEDOM and sefgov
ernmen concerning which they have had slight experience
This nation asks ITSELF "Have done WHOLE duty
by the Tpinos? Would it be right for turn them loose
knowing that Japan would surely swallow them ater?
Must this nation always be sentimental? It should keep
the Philippines using them landing place and aplane
base ASIA else them free to shift for themselves
WITHOUT HELP FROM U.S.
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He guesseS the time to save the
wear and tear on his watch.
What this town needs is a
good barometer for predicting
brain-Storms.
(COpyriEht. issS. King Features
e5Edta24aa 1AAA -
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SCOTTSBORO
NEGRO BOYS
ASK HELP!
Need of Funds Urgent
DEFENSE is HAMPERED
Rush Donations to LID
at 80 E. 18th St., N. Y.

Sitting on a mountain of
TNT-Leibowitz, LID. attor-
ney, wired to the editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle.
In a little town in Alabama
nine Negro boys have become
the symbol of working class
unity.
In the Scottsboro case thir-
teen million Negroes and mil
lions of white workers in Am
erica are face to face with
boss-class justice in all its
brutal nakedness.
The eyes Of the world are on the
Sccttsboro boys!
These boys are now in gravest,
most immediate danger.
The Alabama Office of the I. L. d.
is crying for help. The defense is
hampered in it's work through lack
of funds. The situation is not only
serious. The whole defense is men
aced.
Chief trial attorney Leibowitz is
contributing his services free in adj
dition to paying his own expenses in
connection with the case. The funds
contributed by the workers go to pay
for the most urgent expenses, includ-
ing transportation and feeding OF
witnesses, court records and inVesti
CATION.
The National office of the I. L. D.
appeals to all workers and their SYM
pathizers, to all organizations, to all
friends of these innocent Negro boys
to collect funds and bring them i'm
mediately, to lay and tomorrow
to the National Office, Room 430, 80
East 18th Street, New York City.
The International Labor Defense
has issued a penny stamp in sheets of
one hundred, which workers en-
ployed and unemployed can sell in
their neighborhoods, factories, offices,
and at mass meetings. Each sheet
sells for one dollar Rush one dollar
to the National Office of the I. L. D.
| for Stamp-Sheet which Will be SenG
you Immediately. AS you sell the
stamps you will get your dollar back.
The Scottsboro boys are knocking
at your door for help!
Help save them from lynching by
sending kilograms of protest, de-
manding full protection for all de-
Tense witnesses and lawyers, freedom
ard safety for Ruby Bates, a change
of venue to Birmingham for the cases
Of the other boys, immediate, safe,
and unconditional release of the nine
boys, to Governor B. M. Miller, Mont
| gomery, Ala; Judge James e. Horton,
Decatur, Ala; Attorney General
Thomas e. knight, Decatur Ala;
President Roosevelt, Washington, DC.
Help the defense by rushing every
penny, nickel, dime, dollar, you can
to the Scottsboro New Trial Emer-
gency Fund, OF the International
Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 E. 18th
| Street, New York City.
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bOrO boys.
The speeches, made by two
assistants to Attorney General
Knight-son of the chief JUS
tice ofthe Alabama supreme court
which affirmed the original frame-up
verdict-were in the form of summa-
tons of the jury.
Confirming themselves to the most
primitive appeals to prejudice, the
two prosecution lawyers ignored COM
pletely not only the overwhelming
evidence which clearly shattered their
frame-up case, but eyaded at the
same time all the fundamental issues
involving Negro rights brought for
ward in the trial By the defense.
Opening the summation for the
state, Solicitor Bailey of jackson
County declared: Not only the guilt
or innocence of the defendant is in
volved but also the rights of society,"
He then proceeded to paint a lWid
picture of the alleged rape" full Of
maligning insinuations against the
Negro people, and particularly the
innocent Scottsboro boys.
Bigotry Unprecedented
Speeches which were probably I'M
precedented in bigotry, prejudice, Vi
ciousness and outright attempt to in
spire the lynching of the Scottsboro
boys and their attorneys, were deliv-
cred by KNIGHTS associates in their
summations to the jury.
During the entire day protest tele-
grams from various parts Of the
United States, demanding safety for
the Scottsboro boys, continued to pour
into the court, addressed to Judge
Horton and Attorney General Knight.
In the mi5st of the melodrsmatic
wind-up of the speech by Solicitor
Wade Wright of Decatur. several
wires arrived. Knight hardly looked
at them. but angrily crumbled them
up and threw them on the floor.
Sinking to almost unbelievable
depths in his attempt to work upon
the passions and preiudices Of the
jury, Wright directed his venom
against Joseph r. Brodsky, lid at
torney, for buying food and clothes
for Ruby Bates and Lester Carter
two defense witnesses, and termed it
bought justice" Roaring like lion
tho CoI{citoYs told tha i1JT-y
"Ruby Bates could not understand
everything told her in New York be-
cause 1t was in Jew language" as he
referred to fNa "o'-1'N~n youth, Car
n. as Observation-Disclosures Attorney
Leibowitz to his fest with still an
other demand for q mistrial.
That's the prettiest jew you evel
saw, this Lester Carter, moving hi
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SCOTTSBOR0 JURY GETS FINAL PLEAS
SCOttSbOrO Demonstration
in Harlem Today, 2 PM.

NEW YORK.-Thousands of white and Negro workers
expected to join in the demonstration for the nine
ScottsbOrO boys today at o'clock in Harlem.
The mobilization point is 10th st. and Fifth Ave,
from which place the workers will march thru Harlem as
fOows 10th ST. and Fifth Ave- to 116th St. to LenOx
Ave. LenOx Ave. to 129th ST. west to Tth Ave. 7th
Ave. to 145th St., east to LerOx Ave.
The demonstration will denOunce the lynch threats
against the ScOtsboro boys by organized XXX. gangs,
and demand the immediate release and safety of the Ne
gro boys well their lawyers and defense witnesses
The demonstration arranged by the international Labor
Defense N. Y District and the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights.
Speakers will include Clarence Hathaway, Organizer
of Dist 2, Communist Party, NJ ]. Ogin, j. Baam, H.
Shepard Steve Kingston, Ben Gold Leonard Patterson,
r. Fitzgerald and Donald Henderson.
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Draft N. Y. Boys
for Forced Labor
Bring MAKE Boys Sign Pledge of Military
Obedience Slave Camps Ma Mothers Declare They Would
Rather Relief Cut Than Sell Children Into Forced Labor

the consent of the parents is obtained
by the investigator, acting under or
ders, using every argument to per-
suade the boy to assign up to $25
of his $50 a month wages to the sup
port of his family" This takes the
place of whatever relief the family
has been getting from the city.
In spite of this bride, many moth
ers denounced the CONSUMPTION Of
their sons for slavery in prison
camps, and declared: Take away
our relief if you will; we refuse to
sell our sons into your camps!"
Those accepting" have to sign a
pledge reading:
81 agree to faithfully abide by the
rules and regulations governing the
work and the camps in which de-
sire to be employed"
The lie direct to this yellow dog
contract is given by the following
part of the slip which the drafted
man carries:
1.-THE United States Department of
Labor certifies that (name of boy
of address has been selected for
enrolment in the emergency conser-
walton work under the provision of
act of Congress, approved March 81,
1888, and has been directed to U. S.
army authorities at name of army
camp for completion of his enroll
ment. (Signed) New York State
Temporary Emergency Relief.
This is strikingly similar to the
form used for enlisting in the army.
The ages are about the same as
army ages. Military officers will
train and direct" the labor. In the
camps, under military discipline
wearing prison uniforms, using army
equipment, the youth will toll at
forced labor-and their parents will
10 off the relief list and be made to
live on the wages of their child-en's
slavery.
From the moment he leaves for
the camp the boy is claimed by the
government, he is sentenced to six
months hard labor, he can't quit,
unless he becomes too i'll to be OF
any use in the camps.
Fight the Dollar-a-Day standard
established for all workers through
these camps. Demand the right to
full pay in the Roosevelt re-foresta-
ton camps!