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The Coolidge examiner., 1934-02-23

very grea, shifts 10 the residence
of the people.
Fully rs important. believe. as
an increase ia the proportion OF the
population living In rural en-
yironment is an increase in the
number of parents who are willing
20 sacrifice for the sake OF children
and the preservation OF the family
line"
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-02-23
Agricultural Rakings

New York's estimated potato crop
Is about one-fourth less than that
OF last year.
The Texas agricultural expert
ment station has developed a fig
which may be picked green and will
rlpen on its way TO market.
About 1900 Ohio boys and girls.
All club members and students
OF vocational agriculture In high
schools, fed and fattened 1000
steers the past year.
The soybean is the most nearly
perfect substitute for meat that Is
grown. II contains 40 per cent Of
protein. 20 per cent OF fat. and vi
tamlns 4. 3 and D.
Eight dairy herds that have been
on test continuously for six years
in Tazewell county. Illinois. have in
creased their average butterfat pro-
duction 1OS pounds per COW during
that time.
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-02-23
1877 Pieces of Skin Grated

Omaha. Neb.-l.arry Hogan. OF
walthill. Neb.. can sympathlze with
the Patchwork Girl OF OK After
being grasely burned about the left
leg recently. physicians al St Jo-
seph's hospital here removed I97
pieces OF skin from Hogan's right
leg and grated them TO bis left
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-02-23

him for a Long Island week end.
Not wishing to carry the bottle. the
writer slipped II into the grip OF
the fourteen-gear-ol without say
Ing anything to her about II. As
the household In which she was to
visit Is one where liquor Is an
athema-the wife Is w. G. T. u.
worker - his feelings when he
reached his Office and discovered
that he had forgotten the bottle
might well be imagined. But there
was nothing to be done.
The hostess OF the little girl
helped her unpack her bag. Con-
sternation struck the child when the
bottle was exposed. But, being a
resourceful miss, she picked 1t up
and with a smile said, Here's a
present daddy sent you" And
that writer has the filters now every
time he thinks OF his standing In
that home.
Bus top chatter: After she got
all her Christmas presents ex-
changed. she changed her mind and
exchanged them back again. No
wonder she's had three husbands"
G. Bell syndicats--wNu Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-02-23
Social Code Disregarded
in Face of Luxury.

washlnSfon. - Definite prospects
% declining population ln the
Unlted States are foreseen by fed
cral economists as the result of a
prcssr,.day social code In which
tie rearing % children has been
subor1lnated 10 craving for sconon-
ic luEurics.
Within the next three decades.
according 20 Dr. o. T. Baker. senior
ecouomisi % the Department OF AZ
riculiure. the population of this
country probably viii reach a peak
% ahuut i3s-Wo.ouo persons and be
<in downward movement unless
present trends are reversed
-For twelve years.- Doctor Baker
declared. ~ihe number % births
in the United States has been less
each year than 10 the year prcced-
ins. with three exceptions In 1893
there werv about oO0pnO fewer chill
drcu born than there were in 1921.
In addition the how OF lmul-
Eranis from Europe has been
stopped. indeed. each year during
the last three years more people
have lest the Uniied States than
hare entered r. Ten TO twelve
years ago the yearly Increase OF
population 10 the nation was about
two Millions Now II IL tess than
1na million
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-02-23
Blame Costs ard Tastes

Doctor Baker ands DO indication
that the decline In the birth rate Is
slowing un Already. be says. there
are got rnouEh children being born
90 maintain the present population
permanently Bot for the next few
decades the population wlll continue
90 show slight annual Increases be-
cause Of the large number OF mid
de aged people now living.
The Department OF Agriculture
economist attributed the declining
birth rate 10 two modern day cir.
cumsiancrs-the high cost OF rear
ius children In large cities and the
unwiillngness Of parents TO sacrifice
In order to have children
Doctor Baker quoted statistics
compiled by the Metropolitan Life
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-23

Announcement that he will seek
the Democratic nomination for
sheriff at the May primary was
made today by Claude E. Shower,
POOP Prospect street. Mr.. Shower
ran second to the present sheriff,
Charles L. Sumner, at the last
primary and is Big Four railroad
yardmaSter at the Hill yards.
With a record of five years as
member of the Indianapolis po-
lice department, Mr.. Shower de-
clares himself fitted to give the
citizens an administration of law
enforcement and business and
executive management of the jail
and sheriff's office. He will seek
the support of labor and regular
Democratic organizations. He is
married and has three children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-23
PIasters, PouItices

J. & ]. Capsicum ...........2 for 25c
j. g. J. BelIadonna PlaSterS. ...... 15c
Csc RaymOnd's PectOral Plasters. .21c
]. & J. Mustard Plasters, 6's. ...... CSC
CSC AlIcock's Porous PlaSters. ..... 19c
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-23
RELIEF PROGRAM
DISCUSSED BY
CWA LEADERS
Permanent Organization Is
Topic of Seven States
representatives.

A permanent relief program for
the United States was discussed at
a meeting Of CWA and relief heads
from seven states here this morn
ing. Howard o. Hunter, CWA field
representative for the district was in
charge. Also present was John
Carmody. national eva chief engi-
neer.
Instructions were given and tech
nicaalities discussed for demobiliza-
ito nof 100000 civil works employees
by May /. The dominant note Of the
meeting was that no eX-CWA en-
ploye would be in want. Public
works programs and private INDUS
try are expected to absorb many.
What the ne Wfederal employment
structure viii be was no indicated.
However, delegates were told TO in
struct demObilized workers to re-
register at government employment
agencies.
wlLam Book. state CWA admin
istratior. and Fred Hoke, state di-
rector Of the National Emergency
Council. we're present at the meet
ing. States represented were Indi-
ana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Illinois,
Ohio, Michigan and West Virginia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-23
SCHEDULE HEARING ON
MILK PRICE SITUATION
Open Meeting Feb. % Announced
by Lieutenant Governor.

An open hearing on the milk price
situation is being planned for Feb.
%, Lieutenant Governor NJ. Clifford
Townsend announced today. The
Lieutenant Governor said that the
location of the proposed meeting
will be announced later.
Notice Of the open hearing fol-
lowed reports that an increase of
at least l cent a quart in the price
of milk will be made here if the
price established tentatively in this
area by the United States depart
ment of agriculture is adopted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-23
$248,557.50 LOANED
TO HOOSIER FARMERS
Borrowings on Sealed Corn Are An
nOunced by Commissioner.

Three hundred and forty-four
Hoosier farmers have borrowed
$248,55750 from the Commodity
Credit Corporation on $50, $50 BUSH
els of corn sealed in 463 cribs, &C
cording to a tabulation today by
Martin Lang, state commissioner of
weights and measures, who is in
charge of sealing Loans totaling
s20000,0OO are expected to be made
in the state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-23
100000 TREES WILL
BE PLANTED IN STATE
ReforestatiOn Mapped for strip
Mine Area in Indiana.

Order for 100000 trees for paint
ing on strip mine areas in south
western Indiana have been received
by the forestry division of the state
conservation department, it was an
nounced today.
The trees will cover 1900 acres.
There will be 100000 black locust
and 100000 evergreens. Planting
will be done by the coal companies,
the order having been placed by
the Indiana Coal Producers Associ-
alton
Ir certain fields, Boy Scouts will
aid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-23
CHILDREN'S FILM SET
Expedition Pictures to Be Shown at
Museum Tomorrow.

Films taken by the childrens
museum expedition to the north
west last summer will be shown and
discussed by Hills L. HOWE. expe-
dltion director. at the museum at
1890 tomorrow The program is
Tree to all boys and girls.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-23

Metal case con-
tanning the vari-
Gus essentials for
first aid protec-
ton.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22
Safety Pin King
Get Sanity Test
WITNESS SWALLOWS PINS AND
BLADES-JUDGE UNMoVED

Duluth, Sept 22-Willett Jackson,
10, Negro safety pin king from At
lanta, was taken to Bellevue hospital
for observation, greatly distressed
because Magistrate Overton Harris
didn't seem impressed when he swal-
lowed safety pins, razor blades and
chewed some glass.
jackson, hailed into court charged
with soliciting aims, offered to dance
or to play hot tune on his harmon
lea. The judge didn't care to be thus
entertained. Then Jackson offered to
remove one of the thousands of safe
ty pins stuck in his overcoat and to
swallow it. The judge thought even
less of the suggestion and asked DR..
David /. Arbuse examine the de-
PENDANT.
Anxious to please the doctor, the
Negro promptly swallowed a razor
blade and several safety pins, top
ping them off with bits of broken
electric light bulb.
"Pm the sefety pin king" Jackson
explained as he was led away. "I'm
a mystic too. I make Is bucks a day
doing that. Does that sound like I'm
crazy?"
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22
Bishop Parks
Changes A. ME-.
PastOrsIn Twincities
TWO CHANGES MADE IN
LOCAL APPOINTMENTS

Two changes were made by Bis
hop H. B. Parks in A. M. E. appoint
ments for the twin cities. Rev. VIM.
E. Guy of st. Peter church, Min
neapolis, was transferred to st.
James, st. Paul. Rev. C. F. Stew
art, progressive young pastor of st.
James, st. Paul was transferred to
st. Peter, Minneapolis.
REV. MAJORS RETURNED TO
WAYMAN FOR THIRD TIME
Wayman will have as its pastor
Rev. w. M. Majors who has pastor
ed Wayman for three years. Rev.
Johnson back to Allen chapel and
Rev. ]. Wesley Collins back to Ce-
dar Rapids, Iowa. The Rev. McCor-
mack of St. James, Minneapolis was
transferred to the Illinois confer
ence.
Ogleton and Stoval Reappointed.
Reverend w. H. Ogleton and T.
B. Stovall, presiding elders of the
st. Paul and Des Moines districts re.
spectively both residents of Mime
apolis were both reappointed.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22
MenCken Warns Race
To Keep Fighting
NEGRO PROBLEM MAY NOT
BE SOLVED. SAYS MENcKEN

New York, Sept. 22.-The Negro
problem may be insoluble, declares
n. L. Mencken, former editor of the
American Mercury, in an article ap-
pearing in the October Crisis, out
September "a, 49,.
Mr., Mencken advances the theory
that neither by uproar or legal pro-
cesses is the Negro likely to secure
the rights he Graves. He holds that
the present state Of mind in Ameri-
Ca as he sees it, is that the Negro
has gone far enough and should be
content for the present. -
However, the Sage of Baltimore
also declares the Negro cannot ef-
ford to cease fighting, even though
he makes no new gains, or the rights
Re now has may be taken from him.
Speaking Of the Constitution and the
bill of rights, upon which the Negro
depends, Mr.. Mencken asks:
"But what is this sonorous char
ter Of liberties really worth? It is
worth to the Negro precisely what
it is the American white man. That
is to say, it is worth whatever courts
and legislatures choose to make it
from time to time. And what they
choose to make it Is no more and
no less than what the consensus Of
opinion-not of enlightened opinion,
mind you, but Of general opinion, Of
mass opinion, of mob opinion-wants
to see it made.
''For all these reasons" he con-
cludes, II find myself full of doubt
that the American Negro win recover
his constitutional rights on any near
tomorrow. His politicians promise
him that he will, but they are only
politicians. Some of his white
friends tell him the same, but they
have fooled him in the past. Ny pri-
vate hope is that he will get them
all soon or late. But before any
such Utopia dawns there must be
considerable change in the thinking
Of the human race. lt must CO
believing in quacks and transfer Its
confidence more to facts"
In the same issue JohnsP. Davis
wries an article, "NRA ODDITIES Wage
Slavery" Charles H. Houston and
Mr.. Davis collaborate on a piece:
"TvA: Lily-White Reconstruction.
There is q short article on Samuel
Winningham, he watermelon king"
of Chicago. w. Rolle Wilson names
the colored baseball players he
thinks could make the big leagues.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
TO BE DEDICATED

On Sunday September %, at 2:30
p. M, dedication and opening SER
vices win be held at the new Church
of God in Christ, located at 1918
Fourth Street South. Rev. A. w.
Wilson will be the pastor. This
year provisions were made by the
church officers and members of the
congregation to secure the present
site Of this new edifce of worship.
Among the many prominent church
heads that will speak will be: Rev.
F. C. Clancy of Minneapolis and w.
D. Smith Of Iowa. From Omaha,
Nebraska comes Mrs. B. A. Buffkin,
great teachers also Mrs. A. B. CIR
ham, pianist, both viii assist in the
dedication service. These two ladies
win remain in the city all next week.
Sunday School meets at $50 am.
of which James Jackson will be the
superintendent. William is the lead
er of the Young Peoples Society.
Mrs. Buford will preside over the
Women's Auxiliaries. Sunday SER
vice, II a. m. morning and 8 p. m.
ing in politics; I,
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22
NEGRO DEATH RATE SCARS

Washington, D. c. (CNA) An
alarming increase in the death-rate
among the Negro people is indicated
in the latest issue of the Weekly
Health Index, published by the Divi-
sion of Vital Statistics of the United
States Department of Commerce.
The bulletin compares death rates
among whites and Negroes for the
first IS weeks of 1888 and 1884, in
the five cities of Baltimore, Birming-
ham, Indianapolis, Nashville and
Richmond.
In these five cities, in 1888, the
death rate among whites was found
figures from 8 to IL per thousand,
while for Negroes it was from II
to 10 per thousand. In 1884, the
white death rate rose to 9 to IA per
thousand, while the Negro death-rate
scared to the unprecedented height
Of 16 to % per thousand.
Drive Down Living Standards
Under the crisis and the MIRA,
the living standards of the Negro
masses have been lowered even more
than the standards of the whites.
Wage differentials under the codes;
the displacement of Negro workers
denial of relief to large numbers of
Negro unemployed; the driving off
the land of thousands of Negro fami-
lies in the cotton belt as the result
of acreage reduction-all these fac
tors have been a virtual death-war-
rant for the Negro people. Whole
communities of Negroes in the
South have been faced with virtual
extinction by hunger.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22
Lanseston Hughes
In List OF Is
Leading Americans

New York.-(CNA) - Langston
Hughes, Negro poet and novelist,
president of the League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights, is among the 20
men and women selected by DR..
Charles A. Beard, outstanding Amer
lican historian, as "the most interest
ing American" -
DR.. Beard is the author of "The
Rise of American Civilization" "The
American Leviathan," Economic In
depreciation Of the Constitute
and many other works.
Socially Conscious Individuals.
Each of the selections, said DR..
Beard, is some person "to whorr
times of stress we can turn and who
is socially conscious. The interest
ing personalities whom select are
men and women who have gone out
side the narrow economic operations
Of business and come face to face
with the question whether our tradi-
tional civilization can endure and il
so on what terms"
Langston Hughes was born Feb
ruary /, 1902, at Jonlin, Mo. He
was educated at Columbia Universit
and Lincoln University. He has
travelled in the Soviet Union, in
Mexico and in Haiti. He is the au-
thor of several books, including "The
Weary Blues" "The Ways of White
Folks and "Not Without Laughter"
He has also published a number of
poems and Is frequent contributor
to magazines. In 1888, he assumed
the presidency of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22
Prof. c. D. Stevens
" ill Make
Survey Of Indians
HAMPTON PROFESSOR Dor.
RoWED BY GOVERNMENT
(By Isaac Fisher)

Hampton Institute, Sept. 21.-The
United States Bureau of Indian af-
fairs has requested the release Of
Professor Clarence D. Stevens, d.
rector of the school Of business, dur
ing the first semester. "
He is to make an economic and So
biological survey of opportunities for
the Cherokee Indians, and for that
purpose will proceed to the Cherokee
Reserve in North Carolina. This sur
vey is in furtherance Of . new poll
cy of the government, which is in
tended to develop lay leadership
among the Indians, with the ultimate
end in view Of turning back the gov
eminent Of the Indians to themselves
as rapidly as they are fitted to exer-
else it.
That policy is expressed by the
Commissioners of Indian Affairs in the
statement that ''The increasing use
of Indians in their own official and
unofficial service must be pressed
with worrying; and that with re-
spect to unofficial Indian self-service,
steadily widening tribal and local
participation by the Indians in the
management of their own properties
and in the administration of their
own service must be pursued"
The designation Of a Hampton
professor to do service for the In.
dians is in keeping with the schools
traditional labors for this race. In.
dian education in the United States
was begun at Hampton Institute.
During Professor Stevens absence,
Miss Ethel B. Buchanan will serve
As acting director until the appoint
ment of another head Of the depart
ment
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22
Phyllis Whea tley
To Conduct !:
Peoples School

For many years Minneapolis has
been q center in education admins
tration in evening schools. Only the
lack of adequate budget prevented
educational leaders from further de-
veloping this department. However,
with unemployment came the shift
in social alignments. People out OF
work, or working on a short hour
week basis had more leisure time.
What could be a better way in which
to spend this time than in the inn
provement of one mind7 Similarly
hundreds Of teachers were out Of
work. If the government had to Of
fer relief to them, why not in the
form of labor in their fields? So
through the black cloud of depres-
sion came the ray of hope in the
form of the ERA. Teachers were
to be employed to instruct adults.
The question was not as simple ~
that, however. through the swell
tering months of July, August, fifty
trained minds kneeded out a school
program for adults. Reason assured
them that people beyond the school
age would not be interested in his
tory as history or biology as biology;
but they would like to now how to
write study club papers or touch on
the subject of dramatic expressions.
Formal courses as offered in the
high school and the university were
included, but the human side of
events-the details that touched ev-
cry persons daily life was placed
foremost.
Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House
is offering several courses for adults.
Everyone should take this opportuni-
ty to get into something that will
improve his mind as well as his abili-
ty to elevate his place in society.
Over 800 courses are offered in all
parts Of the city. At Phyllis Wheat
ley several teachers, including Miss
Rachel James, Miss Mary Louise Be-
hanon, and John Thomas. Among
the courses that will be offered are
the following:
Social Decorum, Dramatic Express
sion, Business Arithmetic, Rhetoric,
Voting and Political Parties, Negro
History and Literature, Modern So
cial Movements and the Negro, and
others. .-' 81
On Sunday, Sept. 2srd at q pre-
season meeting of the Sunday For
UNI, Miss Lena o. Smith, one Of our
leading attorneys, viii discuss edu-
cation. Further explanations Of the
Peoples School will be heard. The
meeting is called for the usual time.
$50 p. IA.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22
Wife OF Noted
Actor Passes
MRS. ,STEPIN FETCHIT DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS

Los Angeles, Calf, Sept. Fl, 1884.
With her husband and mother at
her side, both who have been so dear
to her all during to her long seige
of illness. Mrs. Dorothy Stevens
Ferry, beautiful and talented wife Of
Henry Lincoln Perry, known to
thousands of movie lovers as "Step-
in Fetchit," passed away Saturday
night at a sanitarium in Monrovia.
She was FL years old.
The death of Mrs. Perry came as
more or less a shock to the many
friends claimed by her husband. Re-
Gently it had been reported that she
was making marked improvements
and making winning fight over her
long illness of tuberculosis. But her
condition could not be heralded as
anything but declining in the past
two weeks.
Colorful was her departure from
this life-as she felt the end close
about her, she asked to be alone and
that added grief should not be heap
ed on her loved ones by seeing her
die.
Game to the last, this pretty au-
burn haired girl has left dramatic
impression, while here among US and
in her departure that will be long re-
membered.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22
THE sTRANcEsT THING

From the Philadelphia Tribune
Buck Taylor. Snowman. stated that
az have run across many thines IN
my lifetime as a Snowman. but the
strangest Of all. Is why people worry
continually about cruelty to animals
and pay no attention to men," N.
There are associations in Ame~i-
ca to prevent cruelty to apinals.
The beating Of a horse brings tears
TO the eyes. Of the Christiar church
but the dragging Of a human being
tied 70 an automobile Ia laughed AT.
It is exceedingly stranre why
some people worry about dumb ar
fnsls and payTno attention to tn
suffering of their brothers and SIS
ters. - =
t 4 4 /.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22

Boston, Mass.-If a new method
of reading mans race or rationale
ty from his fingerprints, demonstrat-
ed at the recent meeting of the in
ternational Congress of Authropy-
logical and chronological Sciences, is
developed to the point Of practical
application, fingerprint experts may
be able to give the police useful tips
as to whether the wanted" man Is
white, or black, Gentle or Jew,
Swedish, English, italian or Spanish,
copyright dispatches from London
say.
DR.. Heinrich Poll, displaced direc-
tor Of the Anatomical institute ut
Hamburg, Germany spent q years
working cut the method. :,
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22
Abbott Lets
Out McGill
As Manager

Chicago.-Coming like unexpected
lightning out Of cloudless sky, the
dismissal Wednesday, Sept. IL, of N.
X. McGill, general manager Of and
council for the Chicago Defender,
still has tongues in the Windy City
wagging.
Mr.. McGill had been connected
with the newspaper since 1925 and
to casual observers his $700 weekly
position was secure. Wednesday r. S.
Abbott, owner, called the staff to-
gether and announced that Mr.. Nc
Gill would no longer be connected
with the company.
"I'm the boss from now on" Mr..
Abbott said.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-22
Race Lawyer To
Defend Georgia
White Women
NEGRO LAWYER TO DEFEND
WHITE WOMAN IN GEORGIA

Atlanta, Ga.-(CNA) - for the
first time in the history of the South,
a Negro lawyer will appear in de-
Tense Of white woman when John
H. Geer, Atlanta attorney, defends
Mrs. Leah Young and Annie Mae
feathers, two white workers arrest
ed for their part in. the textile strike.
The women, who are sisters, have
been employed by the Piedmont mill
in Egan, Ga. They were arrested
September while distributing liter
ature to other workers. They are
held In $4,000 bail.