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The Washington times., 1933-04-12
Beer and SObriety
Prohibitionists, Please Explain That
One item Of news supplied by New York's

One ITem or news supplied Dy New z oFk s
police will surprise ardent prOhbOnists While New Workers.
drank beer by the thousands Of gallons New York
from drunkenness New Day. than on any day for
years past On beer day there for drunkenness
for drunken driving New York police official says The
new stuff tastes good doesn't get noisy disorderly
it, and doesn't wake in the hospital with
holism He adds that the miserable drinkers of plain
alcohol along the Bowery, have changed to beer.
Heywood Patterson, one of nine negroes
for whom the Supreme Court ordered trial. sentenced
70 death after the jury had deiberated nearly "a
and the eight other negroes accused crime against
white women, crime punished by death in Alabama.
One Of the who formerly accused the
Psrsons recent trial that he and the other negroes
innocent had mOleed her the The
Rev DR. Fosdick Of New York she sad persuaded tell
the truth The second that the nne Patterson
included guilty she had at the first trial
Seven Of the other negroes will be tried time with
one presumably swearing their guilt the other
ing their innocence The ninth is minor The strange
thing which makes the unusual that the Southern judge
in his jury charge describes both women Of the
underworld They travelling in freight with hobOes
ct the time the crime alleged to have been committed
With swearing way, the other swearing the
other the Judge describing both unworthy of belief be-
Of moral tupude there would to be considerable
possibility Of reasonable doubt in the case.
Administration plans to cut the tariff by
10 per cent will please foreign countries But what foreign
like always good for the United States Cheap
foreign money many mues by two the cheap
ness foreign labor wpng out the tariff Lower tariffs may
mean lower employment
Italian wine growers will produce wine
only SO alcoholic in accordance with American law Such
wine cannot be made from natural grapes Anybody
duce by adding water wine That would need to be done
on spboard connection with foreign Wines since 32 would
probably be too weak to stand crossing the ocean.
"wine drink could probably be made with less than
per alcohol bong sparkling water and wine together
The drink would contain the tannn iron and acid that make
light red wne greatly diluted the most beneficial drink in
existence.
Only the foolish the rich in Russia and in America parcu
lary drink strong wines without water added The French
and Germans do except for two Of pure wine
after the SOUP which the French call 1.-The doctors drink
In Germany, Dr.. Sehaeht, head Of the
Rsichsban the world that Germanys diminishing for
eien trade is "a menace to private obligations" "
Uncomfortable for those who lent hundreds Of millions
privately Germany tempted by high interest rates and the
financer's "rakeoff'
is certain however, that Germany will make every effort
60 pay keep her credit alive in foreign countries
The Washington times., 1933-04-12
He had just come home after
working hard all day and his

wife Immediately pounced on
him.
Listen, Henry" she began,
I've got a lot Of things I want
to talk to you about"
That's great" replied her
bitter half, "you usually want
to talk to me about a lot Of
things you haven't got"
The Washington times., 1933-04-12
America Has
Real Leader Now

That which is transpiring
now suggests the two theo-
ries on the functions of the
presidency. We have had
chief magistrates who have
believed that the function
of their office was merely to
fold hands and wait for ac-
tion or orders from the Con-
gress and then put them in
execution. Aside from foreign
affairs, this has been the
course with a great majority
Of the Presidents. That is the
reason that most Of the Presi-
dents are merely names in
the record. Some have felt
that actual leadership Of a
constructive sort was not ex-
pected of them. Most Of them
have occasionally vetoed a
measure passed by Congress
and in most instances they
had made no positive effort
to divert the legislative
branch from what they
thought to be an improper
course.
But the outstanding Presi-
dents have had a different
theory.
Washington had ideas Of
his own and sought to i'm
press them on Congress. In
every instance, I think, he
succeeded.
Jefferson thought the
presidency called for posi-
tive leadership, and he acted
on his theory. His method
was consummate, in chat he
usually insinuated his views
and wishes into the minds
of the legislators. But he
could show his teeth, if
necessary-and he some
times did.
When he was President
everyone knew he was 81
force.
jackson was the next
President to assume leader
ship of the people in do
mestic affairs. Some his
torian has referred to his
administration as "the
reign Of Andrew Jackson. -
He was bitterly attacked by
his enemies at the time as a
dictator. Even Webster
played the demagogue.
Lincoln, of course, had ex-
traordinary powers, because
of the war-and used them.
Then came Theodore
Roosevelt, who had the
Jacksonian idea and acted
upon it with vigor; and then
Woodrow Wilson, who as
sumed that his position
made him the actual leader
of the people-and he led.
Now we have another
President who proposes to
lead; to assume the response
bility of leadership; to in
sist on needful things being
done with all reasonable
The Washington times., 1933-04-12

t a k en- part
in the big
whoopee Of
'29?
And is your
m a tri mony
now suffering
from hi 6 h
b cd pres
sure? Dizzy
spells? Spots
b ore the
eyes? Ring
ing in your
ears? YeS-9
T H E N
DON'T READ
The Washington times., 1933-04-12

THE last week reduced
4 the number CT the Job.
less. The mobilization Of
men for the conservation
camps began, and in New
York city a hundred an hour
signed up and went to
camp. The majority of the
recruits were young men
long out of work and eager
to get to work and earn
their bread. The outdoor
work will be physically
helpful; the training in
camp will be wholesome;
the effect On their morale
will be better. They are
not going to make it their
life work to labor in the
forests at a dollar a day
with food and lodging. They
would rather, until other
work can be had, work for
the Government at the same
pay that a soldier working
for the Government gets.
When 250,000 Of such
alert young men are in the
work, a quarter of a mil
lion youths will be removed
from the humiliations of the
breadline and from the long
list of the underfed.
The Washington times., 1933-04-12

1IUlN Wd1kIIlg I11E SV4 d4S44O o4AO
narrow path.
A Beau Brummel fell in
front of a steam roller the
other day and Immediately
turned sideways so that 1t
wouldn't take the crease out of
his trousers.
There's q society woman on
Fifth Avenue who's so ritzy
that she hires a chauffeur for
her locomotaxia.
Copyright. 1898. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-04-12
Comfort A-La-Carte

Comfort A.La-Carte
A guest at a Park Avenue
hotel 'phoned down to the
manager and asked If she
might have some heat in her
room. Certainly" replied the
manager, what kind do you
want, fahrenheit or cent?
grader"
The Washington times., 1933-04-12

Among the Illiterati
An ex-author Is now working
for the support Of literature.
He's selling bookcases.
The Washington times., 1933-04-12
Social Errors

Social Errors
A certain actor has been 60
ing around lately all bunged
up. He owed a prizefighter
$50 and let him take it out in
trade.
The Washington times., 1933-04-12
Boon for JObleSS:
Functions of Leader
Claude G.. BOUers-

Author Of Battles Of the Jackson PERIOD he Struggle
For America" jefferson and Hamilton "The
Tragic 'Beveridge and the Progressive Era"
The Washington times., 1933-04-12
MAYBE I'M WRONG!
In the Neck of Time
. RY John p. MedhurY

In the Neck of Time
The lights suddenly went out
in a theater the other night,
and there was no panic. The
panic started when the lights
went on again.
The Washington times., 1933-04-12

Kate Smith says her ambi-
tion is to be so thin that she
can crawl through a piccolo
without striking a note.
The Washington times., 1933-04-12

According to chiropodists,
very few people ever get corns
The Washington times., 1933-04-12
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

Are you a married man or
married woman?
Welded long enough to have
The Washington times., 1933-04-12

Take It or Leave 1t
Local drug stores are now
selling double compacts for two
faced women.
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-04-22
Saturday, April ~. 1888.

family Bible in which all births and deaths have been
corded since 1885
1t is not often that white American, especially a
daughter of blue vened Southern family with record
ed ancestry dating back Colonial days, is willing to
make public acknowledgements of kinshp with a Negro.
1t seldom that such white person desires to
prove this type of knshp through the court Money how
eliminating prejudice and overriding caste traditions
particularly like this in which fortune Of $780,,
600 is the stake.
Mrs Grow lays claim to Mrs Turner's estate, the
grounds that they had father and that she is
the dead womans of kin We wonder if the white
father in his will left a share of his wealth to his
alleged coored daughter? In event he did, it would be in
tereSting to know if she received it.
If the courts of country in general called
upon to establish the blood relationship existing between
the racial groups the United States, many startling
and Negro ancestry would be found from the Gulf to the
Great Lakes, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Thou
sands prominent white families would be found linked
blood with dark hued relatives whom they do not
in public and for whom they seldom make provision in
their wills.
If all the Negroes who are legal heirs of white
fathers given their inheritance of land money and
material possessions to which they entitled by the
laws God the would be far weather. and
prosperous than ii is The coored children
many white Southeneis constantly being deprived
ed them 1t easy aside such wills in the South
thereby leaving the coored heirs penness, and al
lowing the inheritance to to distant white relatives
whom the deceased did not recognize in life.
In Mrs Crows suit to gain the Turner estate she does
hesitate claim her knship with Negroes Race pre-
udce may bar many Negroes from their legal brthrgh
but here is in which color dos not seem to count
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-04-22

THE SCOTTSBORO DEFENSE FUND

Popular mass meetings are being held by colored c-
zcns in all portions of the United States, to protest against
the unjust verdict rendered in the recent trial of Haywood
patterson Inc ann IS also TO raise defense FUNDS win
which to appeal his to the higher courts and to fin
the defense of the other boys involved in the noor
Scottsboro Case
is altogether right and necessary that these public
mass meetings be held, means of arousing the fullest
of interest and cooperation in this vital is
The dispatch with which the nine young in the
Scottsboro Case rushed through the first mock trial
and sentenced to die in the electric chair fimsy
charges of alleged criminal attack furnished ample proof
that justice and fair trials for these prisoners will not be
received unless we raise funds focus the
spotlight of truth the The facts be made
luminous that the whole world and judge for it.
self that the young innocent.
Hon Samuel Liebowitz( chief counsel for the defense
has already announced his intention to appeal Patersons
case TO the higher courts He feels confident that this ap
peal will be gra tied and that the verdict will be
ed Such appeals, however, not be made without
money-arge sums of money-and our people, together
with white friends who believe in American fair play and
justice, will surely raise the needed sum.
The white public in the South apparently resent the
fact that Jewish lawyer from New York should dare
Dixie to defend the Scottsboro Boys against charges of
rape They feel that Attorney iebowitz and the
defens money used in the trial, represent sinister in
fuences The fact is Mr. Lebowitz convinced that the
accused prisoners innocent and being himself den
fled by birth with prosecuted race, his sympathy
uray to all other prosecuted and oppressed
pie He protests against injustice to Negroes, just
condemn and abhor the outrageous treatment being
inflicted upon the Jews in Germany.
great mass meeting in the interest of the Scots
boro defense fund will be held in Detroit Sunday after
April %, at Bethel A. NJ +. Church, under the
pces of the Scotsboro Defense Fund Committee headed
by DR. O. s. Sweet Another meeting, sponsored by the To-
cal branch of the n A. A. c. p will be held the
hour at the Naval Amoy, the purpose being to launch
the organizations annual membership campaign, and
to stimulate the raising Of contributions for the Scosboro
defense fund Similar meetings scheduled to occur at
other public centers in the city on Sunday afternoon
This publication heartily endorses all of these meet
ngs in behalf of the Scottsboro Boys, and petition for
them the loyal support of the general public We cannot
dare not forget that the lives of innocent Negro
boys hanging in the balance. They boys 1t is
up to US to provide the defense funds with which to esab
lish their innocence and secure their freedom.
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-04-22
The Savagery Of
Lynching Shown
In New B o o k

Raleigh, N. C.-(CNS)-"One
of the most horrible books and az
the same time one of the most
useful ones that have appeared IN
long time is "The Tragedy of
Lynching," by DR.. Arthur +.
Raper, which has just been pub
lished by The University of North
Carolina Press" says the News
and Observer of Raleigh, North
Carolina.
"Mr. Raper has written case
histories of all the lynchings
which occurred in 1880. the year
in which North Carolina slipped
back after a number of years in
which no lynchings occurred in
the State. In each case Mr.. Raper
has preserved in detail the story
Of the horrid work of the mob and
given a careful consideration TO
the crime itself and official eff
forts to prevent the lynching..
"No sane man could read this
book without being revolted by
the record Of cruelty and brutal
~ of which those people who
made themselves the instruments
Of a lawlcss justice were guilty.
Few collections of the horrible
crimes in history equal in their
horror this scientific study of the
acts committed by mobs moved
by righteous Indignation.
"The book. written in a day of
supposed enlightenment. is a re-
cord of still existing barbarism.
If any argument were needed
against the savagey of lynching.
this book provides it,"
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-04-22
WHITTIER BOUND?.
BY j. E. Mccall

Whittier bound, whittier bound,
Radiant youth thrilled by romance?
Does Adventures voice resound
In your heart where gay dreams dance!
Are you eager to explore
Jungle trails and snow-capped heights?
Do you long for college lore?
For strength TO champion human rights?
Speeding on your sunlit way,
Do you dream of power and wealth?
These and more, are yours to-day
Innocence and youth and health.
Many kings their thrones would give,
For these treasures which you hold.
Guard them every hour you live,
AS miser guards his gold
Whittier bound? Whittier bound?
Youth will fade and pass, ere long:
Strive with glory to be crowned
While you still are young and strong.
Just ahead, the crossroads loom.
Keep the right way noble youth;
For the left road leads to doom;
The right way is the way of truth.
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-04-22

We wish to assure. our readers
and the public that the Detroit
Tribune is at the service of the
people at all times, and that all
are welcome to send in churS1,
and club items, social notes AN
any other similar news, which we
will publish with pleasure and
without charge.
News intended for each cur
rent weeks issue should be
brought or mailed 10 the office so
as to reach US not later than
Tuesday evening, and all such
news must bear the name and adj
dress of the sender, as we can not
assume responsibility for publish
ing unsigned communications to
the paper.
Managing Editor
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-04-22
WHEN COLOR FAILS TO COUNT

One of the most unique legal suits in the annals of
American civil Jurisprudence that of white Southern
woman who is endeavoring to establish her claim
bood-sster and of kin to a wealthy cOored
who died in Chicago sometime ago. The plaintiff in
the suit is Mrs Flora Grow citizen of Charleston W. Vir
gnia the defendants being the cOOred heirs to whom the
deceased wed her 100000 estate The is trial
in the court of Probate Judge Harold j. Taylor Chicago
Mrs Grow declares that her father Lucien Fletcher
of a wealthy and aristoratc Southern family al
the father of Mrs Turner by youthful marriage to
coored Canadian girl She therefore contends that the
deceased Chicago her legitimate colored half
sister In seeking to establish her testimony the plaintiff
has produced evidence of genealogical table of her
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-04-22

e'N%1 49,
DR.. Sweet further asserted that
the fight to get Negros on juries
in the south was very important.
ITO have Negroes on jur;es in the
South is more important than the
nine lives" he asserverated.
Joseph Billups who is a member
of the executive committee of the
international Labor Defense, said
that the meeting was under the
auspices of the Scottsboro De-
Tense Committee Of which DR.. O.
II. Sweet is chairman of the local
division. The committee is the
direct 'outgrowth of a conference
held here four or five weeks ago
at the urging of William Jones.
managing editor Of the Baltimore
Afro-American n d n. Mn
chairman of the organization.
Billups said that there will bid
another conference at the L. N. II
Hall on the evening of April 2il
He lso declared that many Of
the ministers had consented Id
give their support to the mast
meeting scheduled for Sunday all
ternoon at Bethel A. M. f. churd
Saturday is designated as 'ScotGE
boro Day. to which time tags VIII
be sold TO raise funds for the
defense Of the boys.
DR.. Fetherstone said that he
was not member Of any radical
group, but wanted to see justice
come into its own in the South
Copies Of the resolution Of pros
test were forwardcd'to the PreSil
dent, to the Governor OF Alabama
and To the Governor Of Michigan,
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-04-22
DENOUNCE VERDICT
OF DECATUR JURY
Continued from Page -

such cases are happening in the
South, but are not exposed as the
alleged rape case gainst the nine
hovc xvne
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-04-22

The Detroit Tribune sug-
gests that col0red citizens Of
Michigan and other parts OF
the country send messages OF
thanks to Attorney Samuel
Leibowitz, of New York, chief
defense. counsel. for. the
Sc0ttsborO boys; and Rev.
Harry Emerson FOsdick, not
ed New York clergyman, who
persuaded Ruby Bates 10 re-
turn South and tell the
truth at Haywood PattersOn's
trial.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-17
A Slump in Human Values.
Manchester, Eng, Guardiano

|
 Twelve hundred unemployed people in a Salva-
 tion Army shelter in New York recently in- vlted to vote on whether any in the world was worth a salary of f16,000 year. which seems a fatuous form of inquiry to put to and women who divorced from any kind of salary at all.
 However those generous unemployed decided that
 two men were indeed worth their salt to the tune
 of f16OOO year-any President of the United States
 and Babe Ruth, the baseball champion One does not know whether the two heroes in question are now filled with pride at their eminence as the result of competition in which Einstein, Marconi,
 Mussolini and De Valera bracketed equal with
 one vote each If they are, they may be recom- mended to consider reported procurement, by
 the President of the American Museum of Natural
 History which is calculated to put them firmly back in what may be something less than their proper place of it. 8 in. in height and weighing eleven stone says this natural historian, has a cash value of f9 S. 31ad. at the present price of the chemicals he contains Five years ago the same chemicals would have been quoted at G16 but the slump has set in since then, and the various salts and cartoons comprised in the mortal instrument are almost drug on the market; the unemployed is not worth his salt the labor exchange and for laboratory purposes the pricest Iof his ingredients has been nearly halved It is sobering thought that imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, is not worth as much as he used to be, not even to hole-stoppers and brick manu- lecturers But this is also rather coarse and un- kindly calculation which the unnatural historian of the Museum of Natural History has supplied There used to be magazine articles of the statistical type which delighted to tell us, with diagrams and illus Itrations, how many salt-cellars would be needed to make a man. how many iron tacks, how many match heads of phosphorus, and Those, if
 incredible were at least interesting and not exactly
 derogatory assumptions. This price-st system, with mankind marked down as job lot, is vastly dis respectful and uncaed for
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-17
GIRL IN TERROR

Her fingers were scratching and fumIbling at the door beside me. Then her face turned from look ing over her shoulder and showed me whiteness and wide dark eyes and blowing hair, and she beat on the door with her fists and sobbed again: "Oh, do let me in"
 I got the door open, and she whirled in, and I closed it against the wind She followed the light into my room like a child running from the dark, and when I followed her she was kneeling before the, fire, stretching out her beautiful hands toward it, and her silver hesled slippers made spots of light against the carpet. Her eyes met mine, and she said with gasp: Shut the door"