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Where Credit Is Due

This year through the cooperative efforts of the railroads.
the grain elevators and the flour and feed mills, the railroads
have handled the heaviest crop of wheat from the South
western states for any year since 1881, without car shortage,
j. j. Pelley, President Of the Association of American Railroads,
recently announced.
This was accomplished in the face of the fact that during
the same time movement of other commodities throughout the
country was greater than at any time in five years.
The American people take first-class railroad service for
granted with little thought given to the amazingly efficient
and progressive organization that makes such service possible.
The railroads have had a lean financial experience during most
of the past fifteen years-yet they have practically eliminated
car shortages, have speeded up both freight and passenger train
schedules, have further improved their exceptionally fine ac-
cident record, have kept rates at low levels, and have bettered
service to the public in almost every particular.
1t may sound sentimental to say that the pioneer spirit has
never left the railroads-but that is a fact. The lines are tire
less in their efforts to lower the cost of operation and to better
service. They carry on exhaustive research work dealing with
problems ranging all the way from smoother road-beds to
stronger freight cars. America enjoys the best railroad service
in the woodland railroad arrangements are jealous in main
tanning their lead over the railroads of other countries.
There isn't a person in the nation who doesn't benefit in
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the producer and the price charged the ultimate buyer
In recent months, we have seen how questionable or de
batable practices can be corrected. A short time ago a meeting
was held between representatives of the nations principal chain
stores and representatives of agricultural cooperative selling
groups. The chains pledged themselves to eliminate practices
farmers believed inimical to their interest. Thus, IN the most
amicable and satisfactory manner, honest differences were
settled, and noteworthy progress was made.
The last congress passed a law regulating large-seale
merchandising, the effects Of which are not yet evident. 1t
would seem, however, that the law is stringent enough-many
unpreiudiced experts regard it as being too stringent, and feel
that it will unnecessarily and artificially initiate the cost Of hv-
ing. Even so, strong pressure is being brought to bear in
many states either to pass additional laws, or to levy punitive
taxes against big merchandising systems. If that agitation IS
successful, it is obvious who is going to pay the bil-the
consumer.
The whole problem requires a reasoned approach, with
out bitterness on either side, if it is to be soundly solved. Elk
IRENE measures can do no real good-and they can do infinite
harm to the 125, 100000 American consumers.
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AS Living Costs Rise Electricity Drops

During the past two years, the cost of living has steadily
increased.
The prices Of clothes, rent, food and similar necessities
have advanced from 10 to 40 per cent.
But the average cost of electric power is a fraction cheap
er today than it was IN 1884 or 1885.
But that is not remarkable-it squares 100 per cent with
the past history of the light and power industry. Ever since
the industrys inception. rates have declined. They have de-
clned in good times and in bad. They have declined when costs
in general were rising as well as when costs were dropping.
They have d5elined in the face of higher wages for the industry
employees, higher prices for the materials the industry uses
taxes levied against the utilities.
Two factors have been primarily responsible for this re-
cord. First, no industry has done more to promote technical
progress, to the end that costs of producing and distributing
electricity may be reduced. The holding company has been
a great element in this achievement.
Second, by lowering rates the industry has greatly in
creased It's business-and that in turn tends to lower rates
again. For obvious reasons, the unit cost of serving a customer
who uses 200 kilowatthours a month is less than the cost of
serving one who uses so kilowatt-hours.
1t is + forecast that the most of living will continue to climb
for the next few years at least. And it is also forecast that
electric rates will continue to decline.
And this is the industry that has been subjected to more
political attack, more misrepresentation, and more unfair and
inequitable legislation than any other! The historians of the
future are going to do a lot of head scrathing in seeking to
explain why an industry that served the American people sup
erlatiyely well was the target of y%oteseeking politicians.
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C1936

Let us now consider just what bal
ance of power is.
Balance of power, to true Ameri-
cans, means RESPONSIBILITY. 1t
embodies the spirit of guardianship.
1t means self-denial. 1t means con
science. 1t means solemn obedience
to the obligation of that oath taken
by every member of our beloved Eff
teenth Infantry To preserve, pro-
tect and defend the Constitution of
the United States"
Balance of power does not mean
the right and opportunity for rc.ribu-
ton, plundering, or tyranny of any
kind.
The past few years have indicated
but little fitness for being entrusted
with such responsibility en- the part
Of those who now exercise that bal
ance of power.
On the other hand my experience
in civic as we'll as military effort
throughout many years of association
with the colored group, has enlisted
my belief tat IN are wor,ny OF the
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Aduiation, under the leadership of
Senator e. d. Smith, of South Caro-
lima.
SO much the better!
The Colored Group of America is
now morally free actually to exercise
its Balance of Power in the seventy
years of political development next to
come, as it was after the close of the
Civil War free to exercise its newly
found human rights Of freedom in in
dividual progress.
But you've got to make your adj
vances on your own efforts Nobody
is going to do it for you.
Nobody made Frederic Douglas a
present of his greatness-nor Booker
Il. Nashington-nor Charles Young.
They triumphed through their own
STAGGERING efforts.
And their efforts were efforts to
serve and to hep otlers!
Let that be your program and your
watchword!
In a sense, the Colored Group OF
America is TIE most completely or
faniacd group of any unofficial groups
or pars.es in tie world.
To begin with, you have the mark
ings of your birsh-the dignity of the
bronze uniforms of nature standing
cut above and beyond the uniform
of the cloth of blue or Of gray or OF
khaki or of olive drab. The uniform
of nature that has never been marked
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The Common Good

Sage counsel for farmers recently came from Dean H. w.
Mumford, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. He
said:
whether or not farmers intend to improve their standard
of living and financial security, or slide into a limbo of eco
monte uncertainty, depends upon their ability and determin-
alton to more universally recognize the value Of cooperation
and become organized for it.
''On the other hand, agricultural cOoperatives and other
forms of farm organizations cannot serve agriculture in a large
way unless they have as one of their definite detectives the
promotion of the common good. Farmers are justified in CO.
operating for the purpose of securing economic justice. But
they will destroy their organizations if they use them to pro-
mote social or economic aggression
Wise cooperative arrangements will stick to the business
of selling their members produee-and not follow will o. the
Iwisps that can lead eventually to ruin.
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You can address and obtain re-
sponses from at least six million
adults with the cost of less than five
thousand letters.
Your political organizations and
clubs or committees might well be dis
banded. So long as they are main
tanned, they must be maintained upon
a basis of professed allegiance to one
or the other of the officially set up
political parties-and, so long as such
u condition rules, your strength is
divided and your power and influence
negative.
Your w%atchword and slogan should
be a paraphrase of the in%spirational
slogan of Yale University
Tor God-Tor C5unt~y-and For
Yale!"
(Possibiy
Tor God-For Co.ntry-and For
Negro Justice %
OF some such principle.
You shou1I never send delegates to
any convention.
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Nothing Dared is Nothing Gained
BY r. A. Adams
(For the Literary Service Bureau
Know We who boast ambitions fire,
Who unto lofty heights aspire,
That Always has the fact remained,
That Nothing dared is nothing
gained"
Treasures that everywhere abound
By effort diligent are found,
And only thus can be obtained;
For Nothing dared is nothing
gained"
This warning to the timid soul
Pining to reach some cherished
goal;
By Destiny it was ordained
That "Nothing dared is nothing
gained"
Being undubiously so,
'Twere we'll all who aspire should
know
This truth unvarnished and I'M
feigned,
That "Nothing dared is nothing
pained.n
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How To MANAGE OUR PoLITIcAL LIVES
Col. ARTHUR w. LITTLE or,s

To the Colored Group OF America,
Greetings:
i In Parts One and Two of these
> communications We have discussed
some recent history, and some history
not so recent. We have considered
the fa~tuousness of the Republican
Party and the contemptuous insults
4 of all p~rejudiced parties as illus
trated by the "Pork Chop" incident.
We have hastily reviewed conditions
facing the country today. We have
yisioned a hope for the colored group
and its progress during the next half
century.
In this communication, let us see if
a plan at once practical and feasible
can be developed through which to
accomplish the degree of progress that
is so earnestly to be desired.
Let us start by repeating-the Re
publican Party came into being as the
champion of human rights. 1t estab-
lished the great principles upon which,
as a basis, we took our position as a
Nation. 1t proclaimed and defended
the doctrine of defense for all citizens
in the right to work and to enjoy the
fruits of their labors by =
(a) Protection of American In
dustries by mean of Import
Tariffs.
tb) Anti-Monopolistic Laws.
(c) Exception from the effect of
anti-monopolistic laws in IA
vor of laboring men and
m
i'd And many other laws repre-
senting principles making
for the right to Life, Lib
erty and the Pursuit of Hap
piness' for the citizens of a
Republic.
Whatever failures may have been
registered in the administration OF
these laws established by the Repub-
lican Party yet the institutions and
principles were, and are, southland
"for the greatest good CT the greatest
number"
OF the present day fantastic pro
posals of economic departures In the
field of humanitarianism almost all
are the outgrowths of the principles
of the Republican Party under which
the Nation took its place in worldly
estate with the highest standards OF
living ever known-anywhere.
American institutions under which
our Nation grew to greatness, however
called for INDUSTRY, THRIFT
NEIGHBORLINESS, PATIENCE
PERSEVERANCE, HONESTY
CHARITABLENESS and MORAL
DECENCY. There was no place IL
their program for Glass Hatred, Com
munism, Contempt for Thrift, Dig
nifty of Mendicancy, and Bureaucra
cies of Government of such t%yrannie
as shame the injustices of 1716:-
instituted by a T~ammanyized govern
ment bent upon the most extraordi
nary program of pillage ever know
in history.
Faced with the necessity of maxim.
a decision of how we are to vote, lie
us recognize that we-the humbl
people-haye the balance Of powe
and determine to make the best us
of it.
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or even associated with a blemish of
dishonor in the tests of patriotism.
Then you have o n churches and
their f~7at memberships. How often
have I, during the past seventeen
years, dropping with physical fatigue
ard mental and spiritual discourage
ment, slipped in, unobseryed. to one
Of your Harlem seryices-and gone
forth again an hour or two later-a
man once more of hope, determine
ton, and confidence.
Next come your Fraternal organ
izations. After that the Community
Center Associations of hundreds Of
affiliations and derivations.
The Colored Balance Of Potei
Party Of America is arl formed ready
to function. Your treasury is already
provided-because your treasury re
o%uirements gro as NOTHING.
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Practical and Feasible Plan
United You Have the Balance of Power
Exercise 1t for Progress-Not AS Politicians
THE THIRD OF FOUR LETTERS
THE THIRD OF FOUR LETTERS

want to accept-and can get-with q
clear stipulation and agreement signed
by the appointing or hiring agent to
the effect that the appointee is en-
tirely free from any political obliga-
ton Or allegiance.
In your district elective candidates.
you should not make much of a am
paign for election, or spend much, il
any, money. Just let the voters know
that you are a colored man or woman ;
and of your qualifications. BY such
a course you will win many more cleo
tions than you win under the present
system. You ought to have about
sixty congressman, right now, upon
the basis of proportionate racial rep
resentation. If you eliminate the
states from which you are practically
debarred from voting you ought to
have at least % congressman. But,
when you have n congressman at a
time, now, you all get quite excited
about it. 1t doesn't make sense
"Well!" 1 fancy I hear somebody
protest. "Well-that is a funny way
for Colonel Little to talk, after all the
pIOlGSlo 0G ndo lth lSICItdg lnLOubA lAO
years, against the maintenance of
| class barriers and class distinctions"
1t may sound inconsistent but 1
don't believe it is really inconsistent.
When two or more powerful groups
get together, to divide a group that
could be powerful if it were not
diyided-with a purpose of exploiting
and despoiling the outside group, then
l believe that the under-dog group
owes it to itself and to its families
and to the dignity and welfare of its
race-to unite-not only in defense,
but in cOunter-ofGence.
We are admonished in the Bible -
Resist not evil. Whosoeyer shall
smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to
him the other also"
Well, your group has been long suf-
fering. l feel that your supply OF
cheeks must be over-exhausted.
In Part Two" of my Report" adj
dressed to you last week, l advised
you to Suspend Judgment" until
about October 20 before making up
your minds as to the Presidential
election.
NO party n no candidate mas, az
yet, offered anything worthy of con-
sideration as a bid for your vote.
If the men who seek your support
are in no hurry-why should you be
in a hurry?
You have been fooled in the past.
Don't permit yourselves to be fooled
again.
In 1923 the Hoover party promised
you well. Ask Messrs. Church, How
ard, De Priest, Davis, Moore, Abbott,
Scott, Vann, Booze, Jones, Bundy,
Henry, Fillmore, Harris, Wibecan
and hundreds of other leaders why,
after such promises, the group went
against Mr.. Hoover in 1882.
In 1882 the Roosevelt party prom
ised you well. Well, today, leaders
of the Roosevelt party take a walk
out of the convention when a e%olored
minister has the ~effrontery TO venture
to pray to God in their Lily-White
presence. But-to help in the swal'
| lowing Of the insult-they give you
"Pork Chops"
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responsibility of the Balance of
Power.
In that belief I am pleading with
you to take it-and to prove your
selves worthy of holding it-eyen in
the face of such prejudice as we know
is to be met.
A political party, to paraphrase the
old adage, can succeed if it deserves
to succeed-and if it gets some
breaks" and will take advantage OF
such breaks as it gets.
The colored group this year has GER
tainly been presented with the breaks.
Cleveland did little to bring the col
ored citizen back TO the COP.
But what was done, or not done
at Cleveland was as nothing wher
compared to the brutal exhibition .oI
contempt and insult offered at thu
Democratic Philadelphia Show of Sci
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You should never attend any caucus
or conference with outside groups or
associations. They might be found to
have bound you to a support of prin-
ciples and candidates not your own,
or to your own interests.
No member of your group should
ever accept a nomination for any cleo
tive office, from any political party
other than The Colored Balance of
Porer PARTY Of America.
On the other hand, some member
of your gro1p should be a candidate
fer every elective representative va
eancy in every legislative tribunal at
every election-national. state, county
or town, where your population
amounts to as much as five per cent
of the total population.
In appointiye Offices and political
rs you should accept all that yoJ
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DR.. Harris Returns

New York, Sept. 12-(C)-Dr.
Abram L. Harris of Howard uni
versity, returned to America last
week from several months of study
abroad on a Guggenheim fellow
ship. DIR. Harris spent about three
months in London, then some time
in Poland, Moscow and Paris.
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YOu'HPay

In the walter of debate over legislation concerning the
merchandising and distributing of necessities. in the interest
of the consumer must never be lost to view.
The consumer wants merchandising to be fair to all con
cerned. He doesnt want abuses to be permitted. And neither
does he want the law to outlaw legitimate practices that cut
middleman costs, and lessen the spread between the price paid
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Repulse New Adds
Ababa Attack

Adds Ababa, Sept. 12-(C)-
A new attack on Adds Ababa by
10000 Ethiopians was reported
blocked, with loss of 200 Philippians
and Is Italian native soldiers.
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A. & I. State
Opens Sept. %

Nashville, Tenn, Sept. 12-(C)-
The twenty-fifth academic year Of
A. and I. State college begins
Sept. %. Over 1000 students r
expected.
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one way or another from a progressive railroad industry. And
there isn't a person who wouldn't suffer to some extent if the
rails were lethragie and backward. It's right and proper to
expect the railroads to give us fine service-but credit should
be given where credit is due.
Nogales international., 1936-07-11
Eighth Installment

SYNOPSIS: Young Ed Maitland and the
hardened gambler Speed Malone became part
ners on the trip north to the Yukon gold fields
in 81, when word of the rich ores there FIRST
came down the Pacific coast Maitland, son Of
a New England seafaring family. was deter.
mined to win back his lost family fortunes.
Frenchy, the fisherman who took him and Speed
north; Lucky Rose, beautiful young woman
who had given Maitland ring for keep
sake; Fallon. trail boss of the miners, who re-
sented Roses attentions to Maitland; Steiner,
the money lender; young Pete and his drunken
partner Bill Owens Brent. old-time prospector ;
and Garnet, a we'll to-do modern one who hired
Maitland and Speed to haul bis stuff from the
beach over the mountains to the Yukon-these
were among the crowd that made up the gold
seekers. At Liarsville, a camp in the hills.
Speed was made trail boss in Fallons place,
because Speed insisted on closing the trail till
it could be repaired-it was almost impossible.
But the tickle crowd veered back to Fallon.
Speed and Maitland took a stand above the
pass to keep the miners from breaking through.
Pete came to offer his help. but Speed refused
it and the boy, after saying his partner had
been drowned after drunken brawl, rode off
But he took position where he could FIRE on
the miners when they tried to rush the pass.
and SO helped Speed Later Brent. with an old
deer gun, added his help. Just when Speed
seemed to be gaining the upper hand, Fallon
called his men with an exultant shout. A
cavalcade was coming down the trail.-N0W
20 on witb the story.
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,SLUABERlNC COLD
s.., Skf15=@ -6x.4abreY BOYD sss.... 81.

noting the card the dealer was turn
ing. Gambling was the only vulner-
able point his partner had ever OBJ
served in his armor of vigilance.
When some minutes passed with
out a sign of the man with the dlcer,
he poured another drink and lifted
his change off the bar. "This is
interestin'," he said, "but it amt
catchin' us no horses.
With the glass lifted halfway,
however, sound from outside
checked his arm. Through the
blended rumble of the camp and the,
beach surf, hoated some chords Of
deep-toned guitar. The swing
doors opened, and a girl glided
within them. She stood framed for
a moment between the door beams
with a charming, hght-dazzled effect.
When she saw the men at the bar,
she stopped with look Of question,
and smiled slowly Maitland caught
his breath. Neither he nor Speed,
who regarded her with brooding
stare, had guessed how beautiful she
was, or how her gypsy grace could
be heightened by light and color.
She was immaculate - which some
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"You can call 'em soldiers" was
Speeds grim answer. They're the
crack craftsmen of the cop kingdom
and a hard-shootin' outfit. The
simple name they goes by is the
Royal Canadian Northwest Noun
ted Police"
This detachment was the first of
the reinforcements sent into the
Yukon under order from Major
Walsh to police the gold rush.
They were passing over American
ground and their authority did not
begin until they crossed the Cana
dian line at the summit of the pass,
but it's extent was not a question
in the minds of any of the onlook-
ers.
Cheering and jubilant, Fal1on's
outfit got ready to parade through
behind them, never doubling that
Speeds hand had been called.
"When 1 made that bet about the
bridge" muttered Speed, II plumb
forgot to leave out the Northwest
Mounted. Get goin', Bud. Slide
down the gulch there into the creek
and beat up it. Maybe you can
overtake Pete. Anyways, get out
of range"
you're mad!" Maitland cried, re-
f~sing to move. "You can't cha1-
lenge their right of wayi"
''I'6, rather be plugged by the
rangers than see that bunch of sure
ahinQ gamblers herd through behind
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LEGAL NOTICE
ORDER AND NOTICE OF BONE
SALE

It is hereby ordered by the Board
of Supervisors of Santa Cruz Coun-
ty, State of Arizona, and public no.
tice is hereby given that sealed
proposals WtS1 be received by the
Board of SUPERVISORS of Santa Cruz
County, Arizona, at the hour OF 10
o'clock A. M. on the eighth day OF
August, 1886, in the office of said
Board of Supervisors in the Court
House in Nogales, Santa Cruz
County, Arizona, for the purchase
of Five Thousand ($5000.0O) Dol
lars refunding bonds of School Dis
trict Number One, Santa Cruz
County, Arizona, all of said bonds
to be dated July l, 1886, to bear
interest at the rate of four (49o)
per cent, per annum, interest pay
able semi-annually, said bonds to
mature serially at the rate of One
Thousand $4,000 .O0) Dollars on the
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NOTICE OF SALE OF MORT
GAGE

NOTICE OF SALE OF MORT
GAGE
TO WHOM TT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that on
July 18th, 1886 at the hour of 10
o'clock a. m. at the front steps Of
the Santa Cruz County Court House
in Nogales, the Arizona State Loan
Board will sell at public auction,
the following described securities:
That certain note and mortgage
in the sum of $4,500.00 bearing in
terest at the rate of six percent
per annum, made and executed up
on the thirtieth day of June, 1920
by Chas. D. Karns and Margaret O.
Karns, his wife, to the State of Ari-
zona as security for a loan on GER
tain real estate in which said mort
gage is recorded in Book 10 (of
MortgageS) Page 592, record Of
Santa Cruz County Recorders Of
flee State of Arizona.
Said auction and sale will be made
under and by virtue of Section 113
and ia, Chapter 5, Laws of 1915,
Second Special Session, as amend