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children could cool off. I am afraid
of overcrowded pools, which ere apt
to become insanitary. but simple
overhead shower could be provided at
little cost and it would prove a great
source of comfort to the children"
The lack Of adequate playground
space for the Capitals children was
called forcibly to Senator ShipStead's S
attention at his home, 1113 East Cap
itol street. Children used to play in
the alley in back of the house for
lack of recreational facilities until the
Senator and his neighbors got to-
gether and provided a tiny play
ground about 40 feet square immedi-
ately in back of the Senator's home.
Here there are two horseshoe pitch
ing courts and the place always is
busy. This tiny oasis is the only
playground between the Buchanan
School cinder lots and the Rosedale
ground, near Eastern High School,
the Senator explained.
Another Ground Popular.
Visiting the Virginia Avenue Play
ground, chief Southeast Washington
recreational center and one of the
most active Fairgrounds in Washing
ton, the Senator found that on Friday
$50 children had used this ground
and that often the ground was forced
to accommodate more than this num-
ber
The wading pool at the Virginia
avenue ground on Friday was used
by more than 80 children and averages
between 80 ard IS a day. To assure
proper sanitation, the pool is drained
at 1890 pm. each day, scrubbed and
refilled for the afternoon and is again
steamed at the end Of the day and
rehlled each morning.
The. playground situation in Wash
ington shows forcibly lack of proper
planning In the early days of the city's
growth and lack of vision all through
the city's history Of the ultimate
needs of the city's children" Ship
stead said
He also visited the Rosedale recre-
etional center. one of the most mod
ern and best equipped in the city,
and found that an average of 1900
children use the swimming pool there
daily.
The trip closed with a visit to the
Sherwood Playground in northeast
Washington, which was started near
ly three years ago and which today
still is nothing but a partially graded
vacant lot, without tree or sprig
Of green grass
Evening star., 1935-08-04
EIGHT IN TRUCK KILLED
IN CROSSING COLLISION
Ninth Believed Dying of Injuries
Received in Accident Near
Camden, S. C.
BY the Associated Press.


CAMDEN, S. c., August 3.-Eight
persons were killed and a ninth was
believed to be dying of injuries re-
ceived today when their light truck
collided with a Seaboard Air Line
passenger train at a crossing here,
throwing some of them beneath the
wheels of the moving train.
The dead:
/ ]. Van Baker. 55, owner OF the
truck, and Mrs. Baker, IS.
Murray Baker, 10, driver of the
truck; Samuel Baker, 20, and j. ".
Baker, jr., l8, all sons of Mr.. and
Mrs. Baker.
Mrs. Steve Baker, daughter-in-
law.
Gaylord Jordan, 10, and Herbert
Jordan. Is, sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Jordan of Kershaw County.
All were residents of farms in the
Lockhart section of Kershaw County
and were en- route to Camden from
their homes when the accident oc-
Cured.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
MEXICO FLIGHT STARTS
New Plane Leaves New York fol-
Delivery to Envoy.

DC4ANC3J W AhbOy'
NEW YORK, August 3 -R.-A
speedy new Beechcraft airplane, pi-
loted by Fritz Bieler, German war
flyer, roared out Of the North Beach
Airport on Long Island today for
Wichita, Kans., on the first leg Of q
flight to Mexico City.
The Mexico flight is a test, as the
owner, Harold Marquahar, of the Brit
ish Embassy there. plans leisurely
pleasure fight around the world in
the plane. Bieler will pick up Far
quahar and they will return here to
attach pontoon floats.
Accompanying Bieler to Wichita
were Walter Beech. designer Of the
craft, and Ted Wells, his chief engi-
neer.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
NICE ON BAY CRUISE

Will Spend Week End With
Family on Yacht.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, August 5 R).-
Gov. Harry w. Nice s.-iled today for
a week end on the Chesapeake Bay.
He was accompan'-d by Mrs. Nice
cad members Of their family.
The party was aboard the State
yacht Du Pont Ind planned to return
tomorrow evening.
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Evening star., 1935-10-01

you and I'll never stop loving you.
Ignore last. L..
His first letter arrived Thursday
and the same afternoon Ann had q
wire from her father:
"Your mother and I In receipt OF
long letter from Lee Monday. Is 1t
true? Hope not. Dad.
Dad and I are cut of the same
piece of muslin" Ann said when she
showed the telegram to Mollie that
night. We're both afraid Of money
and Of people with too much Of 1t. He
Evening star., 1935-10-01

only . minute. She thought Of him
. great deal more often than she
cared to admit even to herself; but,
even so. her bad moments over him
came at increasingly greater intervals
and she told herself that once she
and Lee were married, they would
not come at all.
Lees letter announcing that he
hoped to return to Washington about
the middle Of April was delivered
on Monday Of the last week in March
and the next day Ann arranged to
Evening star., 1935-10-01

she would need long and diligent re-
hearsing before sne would be able to
lie to him. So she wired that he
was to believe nothing he heard and
only half he saw until she came
home for O visit
Lees gay, exultant letters and her
earnest efforts to reply to them in
kind wrought a noticeable change in
Ann during the next two months.
During all Of February and the
FIRST two weeks Of March Ann saw
Bill Hudson but once, and then for
Evening star., 1935-10-01

likes Lee enormously, but he doesn't
like the idea Of my marrying him."
Mollie smiled. He'll feel better
about it when he knows you're really
In love with Lee. Why don't you 60
home for q little visit? Your father
and mother will feel hurt If you don't
60 back and tell them all about 1t
before Lee pops up with q license"
But Ann knew what her fathers
first question would be when she
walked into the house do you
love him, AnnH -. And she knew
Evening star., 1935-10-01
Pun on Henry VIII.

In the days of Henry VIII, many
English inns went by the names OF
Kings Head" and Kings Arms" and
1t was q witty saying among the peo-
pie that II the Kings Head" was
empty the Kings Arms" were full.
Evening star., 1935-10-01

be away from the ONCE and wired
her mother she was coming home for
. weeks visit.
(To be continued.)
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21
GETTING ALONG WITHOUT RAILROAD

Eighteen months ago d railroad abandoned its branch line
between Sioux City, Iowa, and Wynot, Nebraska, a distance OF
about so miles. The abandonment was made necessary by truck
competition, which had caused the railroad to carry on opera
tons on the branch line at a substantial loss for some time.
The trucking concerns serving the area assured interested
townspeople and farmers that they could entirely fill any trans
portation need. This claim was taken into consideration by
the Interstate Commerce Commission in permitting the aban-
donment.
Here, according to the Minneapolis Grain and Feed Review
are some of the results:
First, grain shipped from the affected area to Sioux City,
thence to be sent east, was carried by railroads at three cents a
bushel. Today the rate is 10 cents a bushel
In the days of the railroad, coal was laid down in the farth-
est town on the branch line for 20 cents a ton. Today the truck
rate to close-in points is $500 a ton.
Real estate values in the r~ailroadless area are at new lows
Town homes that cost $4,000 cannot find buyers at $500. Farm
values have dropped from 80 to 70 per cent.
The branch Ene railroad paid $4,000 each year in taxes
to local units of government. That sum has now been shifted
to the remaining taxpayers.
This is no argument against trucks, in their proper field.
1t simply illustrates the fact that those who think an erea can
"get along without the railroad, don't know what they're talk
ing about.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21
Indignation.

Northerners who were opposed
to the slave system made a great
deal over it's brutality; every time
an outrageous case came to their
attention they leaped up to pro-
thest the guilty masters soul to
perdition.
By the time of the Civil War,
slavery was more brutal than it
had ever been. The masters were
haunted by the fear of slave re-
bellion and they had to get tough
or with each passing year.
Negroes and their friends
ought to keep these historical
facts in mind while they are cast
ing about for ways to curb the
treatment of descendants Of
slaves in the present South.
l think everybody can agree
that the first aim of the southern
land owners is to keep the Negro
at work on the plantations and in
he few factories where they work.
Naturally the landlords and t h e
industrialists want to pay wages
as low as possible.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21
PROTEST G OFFER

The peace proposal advanced for the settlement Of the
Italian Ethiopian war was branded as ca robber proposal re-
wtarding shameless aggression of Italy in a cable sent today
to the League of Nations at Geneva by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People. The cable signed by
Walter White, secretary, reads as follows:
"Any settlement based on partitiorng Ethiopia may bring
temporary peace but viii inevitably create a situation which
will lead to greater disaster. Eyes Of darker races of world
focused on League. National Association for Advancement
of Colored People representing one hundred thousand white
and Negro Americans submits League would court suicide by
endorsing robber proposals rewarding shameless aggression of
Italy upon Ethiopia. Urges uncompromising opposition
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21
I. S. Holds Balance
Of Power In
Oil Embargo
(By Commentator on the Italo-
Ethiopian War SituatiOnl


New York City, Dec. 81, (CNA)
The possibilities of stopping the
oil supply to fascist Italy is
placed squarely up to the United
States, according to the latest de-
velopments around the threatened
oil embargo agains the Mussolini
regime.
Although the League of Ma
tions, under sharp pressure from
the Soviet Union which is backed
by Rumania, is now nearing
agreement on the oil embargo, the
United States has thus far re-
fused its cooperation.
Fifty-One Nations Threaten
Embargo.
If sanctions are extended to oil,
it means that 81 nations in the
League of Nations will immedi-
ately cut off shipments of oil to
Italy. However, unless the COOP
Grafton of he United States is
obtained, the embargo will be con-
siderably weakened.
A large and steady stream of
oil materials are necessary for
Mussolini's fascist invasion of
Ethiopia.
Already, Mussolini boasts that
he has secured an oil contract
with Standard Oil Company of
the United States. Although Mr..
Teagle, president of the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey de-
MES that such an agreement has
been made with the Mussolini
regime, it is now well known that
Francis Rickett, oil baron, is now
enroute to Rome and Ethiopia.
The rumor in official circles is
that Mr.. Rickett, who obtained the
much discussed oil concession
from Ethiopia, is on his way to
help Italy defeat the threatened
oil shortage.
Great Britain is reluctant to
apply oil sanctions because Eng
lish oil millionaires wish to reap
huge profits on the sale of oil to
Italy. Only the pressure of the
British labor movement, the Eng
lish people and world opinion are
forcing England to throw h e r
weight in support of the oil en-
barge proposed by the Soviet
Union.
English Imperialism which has
constantly threatened Italy's war
, grab in Ethiopia, is interested
only in preserving her own colon
ial empire in Africa. The treat
ment of the African Natives by
the British imperialists in the
Union of South Africa British
Colony is VIGOROUSLY brutal.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21
TWO KINDS OF PREACHERS

Prophet Costonio and Father Divine have rapidly mount
ing totals of followers in New York. Costono advocates boy
eotting business until Negroes are hired in proportion to money
spent by colored. Divine orders his followers to go to school,
learn things, vote in a unit for the best candidate, become good
eft liens. Meanwhile many pastors build huge churches their
congregations can't afford, sell starving and jobless Amer
negroes ON a Just reward" beyond the grave, get as much
money as they can, and condemn Costone and Divine. 1t is
obvious which type of program helps Aframerica today.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21
CONGRATULATIONS

Two noted members Of the Tufts College faculty have re-
signed their posts rather than submit to the Massachusetts
teachers oath law.
Arthur c. Lane, nationally known geologist, lis one; Earl
M Winslow. head of the economics department, is the other.
Though we know that this action is a form Of protest which
most teachers are unable to adopt for economic reasons, these
two men are entitled to heartiest congratulations for thus dram
atzine the issue of teachers ights-New York Daily.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21
NEGROES GET ADVANCED DEGREES

Three Negroes are completing work at the University Of
Iowa for doctor Of philosophy degrees. Once this would have
attracted attention but of late the race yearly finds new names
added to the list 0. those who have attained this highest schol-
astic award. Edward A. Bouchet, who got his Ph. d. at Yale
university in 1876, was the first Amernegro to break the ante
bellm myth that this race IS incapable of higher education
Yet Ct is a fact that today many otherwise intelligent whites
look on the holder OF such an honor with a lifted, half-doubtlng
eyebrow
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21

PROVERBS
AND
PARALLELS
By A b. Mann
A Miss and a Mile

(For the Literary Service Bureau)
The quotation is: "a miss is as
good as a mile" The meaning is
that it does not matter how near
danger you may come, if it misses
you, that is as good as if it were
a mile away.
But this theory lends en-
couragement to car~elessness, TAX
ng chances, failing to use precau-
tons. 1t mans daring destiny"
when we should eserve for our
selves the largest margin of
safety.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21
Everything Goes.

If the slaves objected to work
ing for nothing free Negroes al
so objected to working at starva-
ton stipends. The question fac
ing those who boss the South is
how to stifle this discomfort.
Everything is geared to that end.
Negroes are kept ignorant, de-
MED the right to vote and in gen.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21
Parallel.

Northerners and s%outherners
who oppose Dixie brutality make
a great deal over the horrors of
lynehing; every time an outrag-
eous case comes to their attention
they leap up to protect and con-
sign the lynchers' souls to perdi-
ton. And repression grows every
year. The landlords are haunted
by a fear that the Negro may yet
get out of hand; they have to get
tougher every year.
All of this, l think, points to
the fact that if we are going to do
anything about such cases as
Herndon and Scottsboro, we have
got to get down to brass tacks
and realize that we will have to
do nor than point the finger of
scorn and hatred at individual
mobs and erring lynchers.
| approve of protest against
isolated cases of injustice but
suffering and Tuning won't do
much good; what we have to see
is that there are well defined con-
ditions that produce repression
and brutality. We might as well
quit treating symptoms and tackle
the disease itself.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21
SERMONETTE
How Much Can YOu
Afford to Lose
By Arthur B. Rhinow
lFor the Literary Service Bureau)

hOW MUCH LdH loA
Afford to Lose
(For the Literary Service Bureau)
One day, when he was a tawny
headed little fellow, he lost his
penny and wept bitterly. Years
afterward, when his purse was
wellfilled, he remembered the in
cident of his childhood and
smiled.
"0h, WELL" he apologized, 81
had reason to cry. That was all
the money l had, and l couldn't
afford to lose it."
A little while after the recollec-
ton he lost a thousand dollars in
a speculation and felt sore.
81 can't afford to lose that
money" he complained.
Fortune smiled on him. how
eve His balances mounted. He
became affluent. They called him
Lucky" At times he would re-
view the past with an air of sat
isfaction and wreaths of aromatic
smoke. Now he could well afford
to lose a thousand dollars. He
would have plenty left. And as
to the penny? He laughed, so that
his secretary entered a n d asked
whether he could do something
for him.
Then came the crash, the crush
crash, and he was a poor man
again. Bewildered and dazed he
contemplated the ruins, and his
meditations carried him deeper
than ever before. He began 10
listen to listen to himself.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21

again. BeWlldered and daZed he
contemplated the ruins, and his
meditations carried him deeper
than ever before. He began 20
listen to listen to himself.
doctrine of free trade. When
Senator David Bennett Hill of
New York declared-T am a
Democrat" this a a sufficient
ayowal of political faith and
could not be mistaken or misun-
derstood. But such a declaration
today would be wholly without
meaning. Senator Borah, a pos
sible Republican nominee, for the
presidency, is much nearer in his
political beliefs to Franklin D.
Roosevelt than to Herbert Hoover.
On the other hand, John W. Davis,
former Democratic nominee, is
nearer to Hoover than he is to
Roosevelt. The country is no
longer divided between Republi-
can and Democrats but between
liberals and reactionaries, with
Democrats and Republicans on
both sides of the line.
Franklin D. Roosevelt with his
New Deal" has broken down ira
ditional party lines. In the ensu-
ing campaign no one will ask a
voter whether he is a Democrat or
Republican, but whether he does
or does not uphold the policies of
the "New Deal" The old parti-
san labels are merely titular,
without and present day meaning.
When it comes to the Negro, the
old political distinctions have abb
solutely lost their meaning. |
know only one outstanding,
dynamic Negro Republican who,
by intellectual convictions, as well
as emotional persuasions, believes
ardently and passionately in the
tenets of the "Grand Old Party"
at its best, and vainly deludes
himself with the hope that it will,
some day, return to its former
moral grandeur. The Hon. Perry
w. Howard, National Committee
man from Mississippi, bears that
distinction. There are others who
live on past hopes, but whose po-
litical effectiveness is a spent
force.
AS for Negro Democrats, no
such animal exists. The great
majority of Negro political celeb
rites have deserted the Republi-
can party during the past three
years; but they have been mott
waited merely by disappointment
at the failure of the Republican
party to live up to it's pretentions.
They are merely vindictive Demo-
Gratis. They do not profess to be
Democrats by intellectual under
standing or conviction as do the
doctrine and tenets of that party,
nor do they have any passionate
devotion to these tenets. AS a
matter of fact, no such tenets ex-
list today. The Negro political
contingent, is therefore, shaping
it's political action about the is
sues Of the day and hour, catch
ing the manners living as they
rise. The great bulk of Negroes,
I opine will vote for Roosevelt
and New Deal" in the coming
election. Not because they are
Democrats or Republicans, but
because they believe that the poll
cies sponsored and espoused by
President Roosevelt are better
calculated to promote the welfare
of the ace and the nation than
those promulgated by his political
opposition. Many will yield to the
%flattering persuasion and decep-
tive promises of the olden-day
regime. But, on the whole, the
election of 1886 will find the Ne
gro exercising his own judgment
and voting for what he deems to
be the best measures, man and
movement.
Kelly Miller.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21

eral kept in their places. But
that doesn't always suffice; Ne
groes get "uppity' in spite of ig-
norance, dirt and poverty and
lew and again they try to better
their lot.
The final answer of the land
lords, like that of the old slave
holder, is the resort to violence.
Like their ancestors of before the
war, the landlords make the laws
and again they make them to suit
their own ends and purposes.
1t isn't true that southern laws
provide for lynching or beating
Negroes. But even where the law
doesn't sanction such fortnight
measures the judge is apt to feel
sympathetic to a man who h a S
shot or lynehed an "uppity" Ne
gro. The judge may have to do
the same thing himself next week.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-21
WAY OUT
d. - AH.Ila-A
(By Loren Miller

Historians agree that slavery in
the United States was a pretty
brutal business; there were thous-
ands of cases in which individual
slaves we're murdered or MANNED
by overseers and plantation own
ers. In the vast majority of
cases the courts refused to punish
masters guilty of what we call
crimes against their slaves.
There was some show of reason
for that refusal, too. After all,
slaves want to be free and you
can't keep them in bondage
through honeyed words and kind
nesses; guns and whips are much
more effective.
Since slavery was the prevail
ing economic system of the South
the shareholders made the laws.
Like all sensible men they made
rules to suit their own purposes.
The result was that the statutes
were loaded against Negroes.
And wen where the law didn't
sanction outright murder of a
slave the judge was apt to feel
sympathetic toward a man W h
had shot down an "uppity" Ne
gro. The judge might have to do
the same thing himself the next
week.
La opinión., 1935-02-23
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nQciionQles...
(Sigus de la 5a. PAq.)

de su isnsua nativa en- las cancio-
mes de euna de su hogan; Que tie
men la misme sangre y las mismas
tendencias y cue sc consideran uni
dos por los lazos de la dessracia
comm. Aunque no tengan los rss-
COS caracteristicos de la mitoIogica
raza Aria nj las ideas retroeadas
de su Fiihrer, son alemanes, tienen
en- la sangre ell virus guerrero y
conquisssdor, y marcharSn de nue.
vo al son del elsrin bslico, bajo los
pliegues de la bandera t~eutona. a
la eonquista de su libre a~lbedrio!
Las dos mechas encsndidas y en-
canine hacia ell %poIvorin, estdn, en-
AIemanis por Austria y en- Jap6n
por la ~Republiea China. La rebellion
Austriaca y las constantes revolu-
clones de China, son a~gravantes.
GCuai de las dos teas in~cendiarias
llegara primero a la Santa 6arba-
ra? 10 unioo que puede predeeirse
es que c~ualquiera c~onflagracion
que tenga lusar, arrastrara a la
otra. 81 Russia, Estados Unidos o In
glaterra, Sc uniesen contra ell inn
perio Nippon. Alemanis encontraria
Ia OCCASION mas propieia de su vida
para l~anzarse sobre Austria y acaso
sobre su eterna rival: Francia. ST
fuese al contrario, ell eonflicto Eu-
ropeo, motive de fnaccion exterior
para los aliados, Japon saltaria sin
vacilar al cuelIo de Russia para apo
derarse de Siberia y dominar en- Sc