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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-15
By DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of
 HYgeia, the Health Magazine

Editor. Journal of the American
 Medical Association and of
 Hygeia, the Health Magazine
 In diagnosing meningitis, doc tor not only studies thesymptoms and the history of the patient, which may indicate that he has been in contact with the infection, but he also obtains specimens of the spinal fluid and examines it for signs that indicate irritation and for germs.
 In times of epidemic outbreaks. doctors not only examine victims spinal fluid, but they also fre- quently study secretions of the nose and throat to determine whether germs are present.
 Since these germs also can in wade the blood. it is occasionally wise to examine the blood as well and to determine not only whether it contains germs but also whether the blod has begun to develop the anti-substances by means of which the body opposes this dis ease.
 During an epidemic many germs may be found in the threats of persons who have been in contact with cases but who are not them selves sick with meningitis. Under ordinary circumstances, the germs would be found only rarely in the nose and throat of normal persons. Because the disease may be spread by such germ carriers, 1t is cus- tomary in times of epidemic to limit overcrowding, to insure adequate ventilation, and to keep those who may be carriers out in the sunshine and open air as much as possible.
 Various attempts to disinfect the nose and throat by applying anti septics of one kind or another have been without success.
 One of the great discoveries in modern medicine has been the de- velopment of the serum now used in the treatment of typical menin- gococcus meningitis.
 Most of our knowledge of the value of serum treatment is due to Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute, who prepared serums from the goat. horse, rabbit, and guinea pig in 1907, and who also studied the disease in monkeys.
 He prepared the serum of the present type by injecting into horses. at weekly intervals, the germs and their products. The serum taken
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-15
By MARIAN YOUNG EA Service Staff CorrespOndent

| NEA SerVHCe 6t8u AOrEcSpOHUcHt
 New York-More and more women are buying spring suits early this year, using them instead of dresses to bridge the gap between seasons Stores report that customers want them to wear now under fur coats and-f the weather's mild enough in the Easter parade without a coat.
 Unless you live where chill spring fingers long and hot weather is far of, it really is practical to get a suit early. Buy later and you'll be able to wear it only a little while before putting it up until fall. Have plaid silk, bright taffeta, sheer sweaters and jersey blouses to wear now. Save light print and frilly white ones for after Easter.
 The suit situation, according to reports from Paris collections, goes something like this:
 Short, ultra-fitted jackets are more popular than longer types. There are just as many flared skirts as slim, straight ones. Suits which look like two-piece frocks are widely featured It's a year to buy a suit with two Skirts-one to match the jacket, the other plain or striped, but contrast ing.
 Before you decide to get plain navy or black, look at some of the new colors. In one interesting New York collection, designed by Tillie Schanzer, there are lovely vivid blues, greens, reds and tangerine tweeds. Also creamy beige. piped with brown or black, old rose, rust a variety of grays and many yellows in several tones.
 One especially nice suit, in light -than-navy wool, is finished with beige stitching around the collar down front and across pockets. The skirt is box-pleated at front and back, giving a fiared effect when you walk. The jacket is single breasted and can be worn over a blouse or with an Ascot.
 Another model, in beige and brown striped woolen, has an extra skirt of plain brown. Both skirts have kick pleats in front and botl jackets are slimmly fitted perfectly tailored. With frilly neckwear, they are most fiattering.
 Also designed by Tillie Schanzei is digger" suit, one of those casual looking models that women like tc wear in the country and college girls like for the campus. The skirt i slim and straight. The below-hip- length jacket is not fitted - not swagger. It simply hangs free from the shoulders and is double breasted
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-15
EGGS IN TREE 100 YEARS

Klamath Falls, Ore. (UP)-Log- gers who sawed the top from large tree discovered a birds nest which had been sealed completely as the tree grew. In the nest were seven small eggs. The lumberjacks esti- mated they were laid about 100 years ago, judging by the rings in the wood.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-15
MALLARD INvADEs CITY

Cleveland (UP)-Mrs. B. Unger's 13-year-old son captured . wild Mallard duck after a chase down 2 busy street within the city. The bird flew into tree. but the boy climbed after 1t and caught 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-15

there was an insertion of crepe that fell in fullness down the front of the skirt. The bodice was high in front with swirled and twisted beading trimming of pale pink pearls. Very short and full sleeves were trimmed with the same pink pearl embroid- cry.
 Baroness Thenard also wore black. Her gown, in sheer wool, was made with a high neck in front, finished with small turnover collar. It was bare to the waist in back. The straight slim lines of the gown were cut by wide sash, embroidered in multi i-colored sequins, which could be worn tied about the waist with the long ends trailing or as a scarf at the neck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-15
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By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-15
TOMORROW,s MENU

Breakfast -- Stewed pears, codfisl cakes, toast, coffee, milk.
 Luncheon -- Lima bean Sufxls brown bread sandwiches, grapefruit and lettuce salad, sugar cookies. tel milk.
 Dinner Tomato and apple Juic| baked ham, sweet potato puddin ] brussels sprouts. chopped gres salad. pumpkin pie. cheese. ccfle milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-15

can be seasoned more highly, but high school cooks rather frown on such fanciness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-15

Problems Dc cussed in his column Letters unsuitable for publcation win be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-15

Unless the college girl is willing to compromise with and boy who went to work instead of to college seqUently ready for matrm0ny the fifty fifty plan better got single time her hands. The college slowed her up in the for marriage
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-07-16

legal Aryan Jew placed
political and civil disabilities.
"The Southern have adopted definition of
Negro coord person. which roughly all of their
teal The usual definition of Negro coored
based upon the proportion of Negro and white blood but
scientific blood discovered these had
fall back upon observation and common Judgment
Of the which have enacted laws based dsnc
ultimate adequate definition of
Individuals the forbidden inemarry
fetal evidence satisfactory the clerk of the Children
assigned white eoored schools wholly superficial
and conductor of the South judge
the abstruce science of anhropoogy and ehnoogy.
e approach have Federal definition of Negro
coored person the Supreme District
Columbia white schools the laws of
The judge declared that oored who by
and association, abides in the racial status.
Whn this question reaches the Supreme Court if does it
easy predict this learned tribunal will estep technical and
ultimate definition and will fall back the resourcefunes Of
observation and common
Th august tribunal passed excluding Japanese
Chinese Fpnos becoming by
did definition of what constitutes
Chinese, Filipino but took the definition for granted.
Should the Supreme undertake technical definition of
race define white and the where
blood the white the coored
begins This would require wisdom than the nine wise old
The will in all likelihood fall back
existing definition based hearsay and eae evidence long
as it is workable"
abolish distinction discrimination
composition establish scientific definition
of "race"
However the pending it is inevitable that
judiciary ultimate
definition
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-07-16
WHO IS A NEGRO?
By KELLY MILLER

decision of the Supreme of New York, uphodng the
fong Negroes from owning renting occupying
which figure
and national litigation.
defendants this squarey
ground that although they conceded modcum Negro blood
they sou connded that they Negroes according
established scientific legal definition
The Court depping the frontal ISSUE accepted the working
definition general practice and denied that the litigation
violated provision of the Constitution United
decision Supreme specific
acter.
Arthur Garfield Hays the we'll known militant attorney radical
causes declared his intention advance appealing
Supreme Court of the United States and force that final tribunal
legal definition of the term NEGRO"
that the National
Coored People and the Civil Liberties joined clearly
When Mr. Hays announced his intention appealing
article for the May Opportunity desgna-
then predicted the the pending suit prophesed
that both the local and court would sdep judicial d
on Whatever said there pertinent the issue involved that
/ canno do better than repeat here
"Por 1890 the Census Office sought subdde the Negro
into blacks muaoes quadrooms Subsequent
to that date it found impossible make such sharp determinations
since these divisions mpcepy into the other
there definite discriminate criterion by which the could
be separated from the other.
There states which legal distinction
separate schools nerracia
1t would be therefore
should federal definition of
such distinction Hitler will be confronted with the necessity of
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-07-16
THE CREDIT UNIONS

Editor:
If credit unions could be sum-
married. into a definition, the fol-
lowing would at least be partially
adequate:
A credit union is a cooperative
banking institution for people of
small means who desire to use
their money themselves instead of
letting the bankers use it. 1t is
an organization which loans money
to its members at low rate of in
terest and thereby saves them from
the loan sharks. 1t is the body of
the cooperative movement and a
way to economic betterment with
out bloodshed or revolution.
The old gardener is rather proud
of the Associated Negro Credit
Union of Minnesota. It's growth
has been steady and rapid. Negroes
are learning to trust each other.
The associated credit union is I'M
der the State of Minnesota banking
commission. No one needs be
skeptical about investing his
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-07-16
A Matter of Importance

Many of the people of Minnesota and this in
cludes most of group in ST. Paul and Minneapolis
may read in the dispatches from Washington of the dis
closures being made by the congressional committee nves
eating tax evasion They have other thought than
that the evidence advanced shows pfu seshness the
part of numbers of rich people, and these persons
positions of deserved embarrassment.
But this is by the only emotion this informa-
ton should arouse.
The papers of the country for easily understood
will not go deeply into the practical result of this tax dodg
ing affects the pOcketbooks of the people These will
be called upon to shoulder any and all of the deficits the
faces because of the refusal by many persons
meet the share allotted to them
1t requires but little thought realize that government
responsibility in respect to its annual recurring payroll of
personnel of interest the money borrows of its many
activities that call for payment in real money amounts to
certain definite That the government must raise
through taxes. If certain citizens abe legally other
WISE to the payment of many millions of the direct
taxes they counted to pay the itself
will not be relieved of single dime of it's obligations 1t
will be compelled transfer those obligations the burdens
borne by the people through indirect taxes that
not be evaded These will be reflected in higher prices of
bread and meat of clothing and sugar and gasone in
thousand ndious that do not plainly show but which
keeny felt
So this investigation has very personal interest for all
What Congress will do to close loop holes is very
important. Perhaps shall have need to acquaint
representatives with this fact.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-07-16
Friday, July 16, 1897
Sumner Field Underway Again

Welcome to many Minneapolis people, especially
coored people, from Washington announcing the final
steps in the matter of the Sumner Field project.
1t will be recalled that three years the
men selected Minneapolis of several cities in which
to finance rebuilding of Slum section Out of several such
districts presented by interested Minneapolis welfare groups
the Sumner Field section selected the fulfilling
most closely the governments ideas for rehabilitation
This section includes the territory between Emerson and
Lyndale, Sixth and Eleventh north Six
million dollars appropriated for the Improvement This
later reduced to for best understood
in Washington.
All of the residents of the area about per coore
moved out the buildings torn down and foundations
constructed for the residences Then followed series
of happenings involving irritating delays, leading many
people to believe the project would materze beyond
the present situation
1t would be interesting story to develop the deep
anxiety with which the Phyllis Wheatey Board and citizens
both white and coore have followed the several stages of
the plan The exercised protect the interests of the
coored folks who moved from the section followed to
their homes and given information and furnished blanks
upon which to make application for reeny. But that is
story for some future day.
We rejoiced that the last hurdle has been
crossed The last contract approved year from today
Sumner Field will be changed into of the most modern
and most beautiful residential sections in all Minneapolis
The only way in which its benefits will fail to reach
Minneapolis Negroes for them to fail reaching out and
possessing them.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-07-16
Public Service
Bureau
MINNEAPOLIS SPOKESMAN
AND ST. PAUL RECORDER
From the Nurses Notebook

The north wind did blow and we
did have snow and there was much
grumbling then.
The south wind did blow and now
we know there are year round
grumblers-among men.
Well, well, well, we are not quite
clear whether we were the pa
tients or the visitors last week. We
do feel that our painting and per-
spring did do some good though.
What? Why, our wilted appear
ance, weary walk and Woody con-
versation so startled the various
inmates they forgot their own
troubles and ills to sympathize with
us.
1t is relief to enter one of our
institutions, leaving the glaring
sun and hot pavements outside. The
very quietness of the place is cool
ing. The young women in white
going from bed to bed, serenely
carrying out the orders Of the men
in white, deserve to be called good
troupers as much as any actors of
the stage, or soldiers of wars.
Their calm, steady expressions are
as much part of their uniform as
the white cap and dress. They
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-07-16

southern cities where he had to
compete with white workers in the
most unfay0rable environment,
young Whatley made application to
the National Shoe Service company
at its Toledo, Ohio, headquarters
and meeting the stringent demands
of the company in the matter OF
capability, experience and charac-
ter was taken into the OrganiZa-
tiOn, which fortunately is not in
terested in color. His proven
ability induced the company to
send him among its force in several
southern cities; to Atlanta, Mem
phis, Birmingham, among others.
When it completed its negotiations
with the Minneapolis store they
sent Whatley. He not only is able
to care for the physical condition
of all the intricate machinery but
can also do any of the actual work
and some of it like the sewing of
ladies' shoes is a very delicate task,
calling for the very highest tech
meal skill.
The National Shoe Service COM
pany furnishes the machinery and
its own employees whom it pays
and the local store, of course, has
nothing to say about it.
Except, it is reported, that the
Leader which does not employ any
colored help-(it gets lots of col
ored patronage without that con-
sideration) objected to having this
young Negro in it's force. Then
the Service company said, GAIL or
none," and the Negro youth
stayed.
He has made friends with his
fellow workers, with the manage
ment, with all who appreciate
ability, mOdesty and a proper self
respect. He came to Minneapolis
last December, expects to remain a
year, the usual limit before his
company sends him elsewhere.
His ultimate aim is to get a bust
ness of his own somewhere in the
north, send for his family and con-
tinue to build for himself and his
people a new place in the economy
of this country.
Howdy folks:
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-07-16
HERE and
THERE
Dy w. M. gmi@

Most of us, in our secret hearts,
admit to ourselves, though not for
public consumption, that the youth
of our day leave much to be de-
sired. We recognize that its
most noticeable characteristic is an
aggravating self-sufficiency that
borders closely on insufferable con-
ceit. That its main objective in
life seems to be good time" re-
gardless; that the opportunities
scattered so plentifully around are
hedged about with the necessities
of hard work and sacrifice with
which it has no sympathy or
strength of character to endure.
But if we dig about with enough
of persistency-even here in our
Twin Cities-we will unearth
enough evidence to show that there
are other youth, the very antithesis
of that other youth that so flls our
horizon and weighs down our
hearts with disappointment and de-
spair.
find examples occasionally, and
strangely enough, always en-
virOned by the same general cir
cumstance.
First this youth, boy or girl,
comes from the South where the
spurs of ambition are presumably
least in evidence.
Second, this young person is in
fuenced by an imperiOus desire to
get more from life than a good
time and something to eat and
enough to wear.
Third, these Negro youths al
ways have been aided by some
white person, who for one reason
or another have been able to look
beyond the barrier of color and
have seen ability, ambition and an
irrepressible determination to be
somebody, and on that basis have
provided the needed opportunity.
A fourth, and / believe the most
important, characteristic of these
young people is a certain "clOse
mouth" attitude. They see nothing
to brag about in their manner OF
life. They have done only what any
other youth could do if he wished;
they don't enjoy talking about
themselves, and only by dint OF
questioning can their. story OF
themselves be drawn from them.
Such a one l found this week in
the person of Teavious Whatley
who comes from Chattanooga
Tenn, and is at present working in
Minneapolis in the shoe repair de.
partment of the Leader Depart,
menL store. ..
| Young Whatley is "a years old
is married, has a baby son and ha,
completed two years of higE
school. Nothing very exciting OF
unusual about all of that. But wait
| The National Shoe Service cor,
poration is a widely known organ
iZation. 1t has taken the simple
matter of shoe repair and built il
into national business.
With the most modern machinery
and the most expert workers to b.
found it moves into a city anC
takes over the shoe business of 6
firm like the Leader store in Min.
neapois where this business is only
a side-line in which the local store
can not afford the expensive ma,
chinery nor the high priced opera,
tives necessary for it's fullest de.
velopment.
So after several years of work in
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-07-16

money in the Negro Credit Union.
Let's draw out some of our
dollars from privately operated
banks and put the money into the
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-07-16

credit union and reap the full pene-
fits of our own money.
Herbert Howell.
Evening star., 1937-09-23
LegiOnnaires Leave
625 Tons of Litter
In New York Streets

NEW YORK, September % (P).
Some 10000 departing Ameri-
can Legionnaires and convention
visitors left more than footprints
behind them.
The Department of Sanitation
estimated the brooms of 1850
street cleaners picked for merit"
had collected 625 tons of litter in
a 22-hour clean sweep of Times
Square and the Legion parade
route along Fifth avenue.
This was a new record-six
times the tonnage picked up after
the welcome to Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh on his return from
Paris.
In reward for their efficiency,
the mop-up brigade is to be given
one-day holiday and overtime
allowance.
Evening star., 1937-09-23
MARYLAND FACTORY
PAY ROLLS INCREASE
Average S11.36 More In August
Than in Same Month Last
Year, Is Report.
sy the Associated Press.

sy the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. September 23.-The
monthly pay envelopes Of MARYLAND
factory workers held an average of
sl1.36 more in August than they did
IN the same month last year, the State
Labor and Statistics Department re-
ported today.
State Labor Commissioner Harry T.
Phoebus also noted widespread gains
IN factory employment and pay rolls
In the State for the month Just ended.
His statistical summary of business
and labor conditions indicated that
the employment gain was not as high
as is usual for August. but the in
crease IN total pay rolls was above
the l3-year average increase.
The average weekly earnings for
combined manufacturing industries
during the month was s24.50. the re-
port said. This figure represented an
increase of s2.83 week over the aver
age weekly earnings for August, 1886.
Basing his statistics on returns from
$50 manufacturing establishments in
Maryland, employing 98068 persons
during August. the Labor Department
reported employment increased o.6
per cent over July. 1887, while pay
rolls jumped &c per cent.
OF the 43 industries covered IN
Phoebus' report, II announced in
creaSes in both employment and pay
rolls; IL showed losses in both en-
ployment and pay rolls; reported
loss in employment and gain in paw
rolls; Q reported gain in employ
ment and a loss in pay rolls: Q re-
ported no change in employment, one
with loss in pay rolls and the other
with gain, and / industry showed
loss in employment and no change in
pay rolls
The month showed a greater indus
trial activity, as compared with Au-
gust, 1886. Synthetic yarns and rub
Der tires, with smaller numbers of
employees, reported increased pay rolls.
Clothing plants generally showed in
creases in both employment and pay
rolls.
Evening star., 1937-09-23
COUNTY SAYS PLANT
IS NOT A YARDSTICK
Supreme Court Asked to Let
Stand Ruling Allowing P.
". AS Power Aid.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Greenwood County, S. c., told the
Supreme Court yesterday an electric
plant at Buzzards Roost, which it
proposes to build with a S2.852 900
Public Works Administration loan and
grant, would not serve as a yardstick
to fix public utility rates.
Attorneys for the South Carolina
county asked the Supreme Court to
let stand decision of the Fourth
Circuit Court Of Appeals sustaining
the P. w A. loan and grant.
The Duke Power Co. recently asked
the high court to review the decision
in an effort to prevent P. w. A. from
making loans and grants for publicly
owned hydroeiectric plants.
The county argued in its reply to
the power company petition that "all
issues Of fact have been correctly de-
termined adversely to the petitions by
the courts below and all questions of
law have been determined adversely
to the petitioners by former decisions
Of this court"