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Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1937-09-01

KILOGRAMS RECEIVED BY T. j. HUDDLESTON
You are to be congratulated for such wonderful
report.
j. C. LAMKIN
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1937-09-01

Your report splendid. Congratulations
organization.
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1937-09-01
YAZOO COCA-COLA BE

Your splendid report credit to your organizs
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1937-09-01

Congratulations on your twelfth annual report Wish
you continued
WISE BROS
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1937-09-01
God bless organization and your efforts with
achievement.
T. H. CAMPBELL, Attorney

Congratulations your twelfth anniversary and
splendid report.
U-SAVE CASH GROCERY
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1937-09-01

We congratulate you your twelfth annu
and message to lodge.
BRISTER GRO. CO., K Z
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1937-09-01

Congratulations on your twelfth report We
is indeed good showing
POSTAL TELEGRAPH CABLE co. OF YAZC
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1937-09-01

Congratulations on your fine financial state
IS splendid compliment to your officers.
PICKETT PRINT
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1937-09-01

Regret attend the session but wish for you
successful meeting You rendering great service for
group. Keep the good work going Command when
you need aid.
Signed
J. E. JOHNSON, Prentiss, Mississippi.
Evening star., 1937-01-20

Winter will know that this city Is not
exceptionally favored by the elements
over others Of the Atlantic seaboard.
Washington takes its bad weather along
with the good, and is glad whenever
there is mild temperature and clear
streets at this particular season.
Unpleasant as this day Is. 1t might
have been much worse. Some past In
auguration days have been atrocious in
their severity. Notable cases are those
of Grants second inaugural, in 1873:
Taft's, in 1909, and Wilson's second, in
1917. The two earlier ones of these
we're desperately bad, with excessively
low temperature on the first occasion
and with heavy snow and severe cold
on the second. Many deaths occurred
through exposure to the elements. This
day is merely uncomfortable. It is, how
ever, greatly to be deplored that the
skies are not bright, the streets dry and
the air balmy. The chances are that
four years hence such an Inauguration
day will occur, whoever may be the CEN
trail figure on that occasion.
Evening star., 1937-01-20
Feelers From Europe.

Distinguished European visitors, on
various missions bent, are landing on
American shores. Mr.. Walter Runciman,
president of the British Board of Trade,
which corresponds to our Department of
Commerce, has arrived in New York and
presently will be week end guest at the
White House. He will be followed shortly
by Sir Otto Niemeyer, director of the
Bank of England and former chairman
Of the League of Nations Financial
Committee. In few days the newly
appointed Ambassador Of France, M.
Georges Bonnet, will take up his duties
in the United States.
Although M. Bonnet, former French
minister Of finance and commerce, is
the only one of the trio with official
credentials, there is ground for assum-
ing that American European economic
and financial issues are the subjects to
which not only the French envoy, but
also the gentlemen from Britain, will ad-
dress themselves at Washington in one
form or another. This prospect is not
dimmed by Mr.. Runciman's smiling as
surance that he Is here on vacation and
Evening star., 1937-01-20
Inauguration Weather.

washington makes no apologies for the
weather on this Inauguration day, for it
bears no responsibility. It is deeply sorry
for the unpropitious conditions iu which
1t receives its thousands of guests, assem-
bled for the great national ceremony of
the induction of President into Office.
It wishes that the day were clement, the
atmosphere clear and warm. But this
was not the fortune that the elements
bestowed upon the Capital for this
occasion.
When the change was made in the
national calendar, shifting the beginning
Of the presidential term from March 4
to January 20, there was some hope
despite the fact that this particular time
has very often been harsh and altogether
disagreeable, that by good chance the
tradition of January thaw" that so
often prevailed shortly after the turn of
the year would be maintained. There
seems to be no valid meteorological
reason for such hope, save that very
often in the past the final fortnight Of
the first month Of the year has been
mild and bright, just as early March has
often been inclement and cold.
Those who are here for the first time
will be grievously disappointed because
Of the failure Of opportunity to see
Washington In its full glory. Those who
have been previously in the Capital in
Evening star., 1937-01-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted
his first nomination at Chicago in 1882,
he intimated that his presidency would
be marked by innovations-that prece-
dents would be smashed and created in
many directions. With no tradition has
he broken more c0nspicuouSly than the
one which holds that the White House
is killing job and generally wrecks its
occupant. F. D. r. enters upon his sec
ond term fully as f1t as, If not filter than.
when he first took office. He tackles an
other cycle of the New Deal in the prime
Of physical vigor and intellectual power.
Except for those tell-tale evidences of
wear and tear, which come to any man
Of his age in post of grave responsibility
-crowsfeet. thinning hair and the like
the President evinces few signs that
executive burdens are exacting any Spe-
cial toll from him. In recent times he
has shown tendency to overweight,
but is said to have shed or 10 pounds
of excess ballast since November. His
billion dollar smile, hearty laugh. res
onant voice and bubbling good nature
persist. His buoyancy, optimism and
self-confidence are unimpaired. Ex-
ternally and spiritually, he radiates at
every point strenuous well-being and
contentment. A cast-iron worryproof
temperament may be the fundamental
explanation of the Presidents triumph
over the ravages of time.
In an autographed letter addressed to
the foreign service and just published
in its Journal, President Roosevelt re-
cords that, among other things, the Ma
ton in November o. KID his conduct
of our relations with the outside world.
He writes: THE vote of confidence re-
Gently given the administration by the
people of the United States is evidence
of their approval of its foreign policy,
particularly the efforts taken in the in
terest of world peace and the trade
agreements program. thank the for
1t has given to the Secretary OF State
and to me in these matters"
Only events will show whether the next
phase of the New Deal is to find the
President steering right or left. Unless
his inaugural address sheds definite light
on the subject, opinion as to his future
direction will remain matter of divided
speculation. The White House attitude
toward legislation designed to clip the
wings of the Supreme Court should pro-
vide the earliest indication of policy
trend. Having received colossal vindi-
cation at the polls, the President would
be justified. many supporters insist, in
hewing precisely to the line hitherto
pursued Others argue that having
accomplished major objectives, except in
labor relations, it would be logical for
the President to content himself with
achieved gains rather than embarking
Evening star., 1937-01-20

has purely social" purposes in mind In
accepting Mr.. Roosevelts hospitality. On
Sir Otto Niemeyer's behalf it is afirmed
that he is concerned only with routine
Anglo-American banking matters.
The importance of these European
wayfarers and their arrival at this time
strongly suggest that their respective
governments desire at least to feel out
American sentiment on war debts, on
continued participation in currency sta
bilization, on neutrality and trade rela-
tions, and, perhaps most of all, on the
United States readiness to support in
ternational efforts for more equitable
distribution Of raw materials and food
supplies as an indispensable guarantee
Of world peace. Many American au-
thorities acknowledge that concessions
by the "have" nations to the have not"
countries-those lacking in natural
resources-are essential if powers like
Germany, Italy and Japan are to be
dissuaded from satisfying their needs by
aggressive war.
Whether the objective can best be
approached through an international
economic conference is doubtless to be
one of the topics OF impending dis
cussion. The interest of the Govern
ment and people of the United States in
practical methods for preserving peace
is profound. They will not turn deaf
ear to suggestions looking to American
collaboration, provided always that this
country is not asked to entangle itself
in commitments that would lead to en-
broilment in the political intrigues of
Europe and the Far East. AS to war
debts, too, the British and French states
men are sure to find Washington in re-
ceptive mood for consideration of pro-
posals looking to possible readjuStments,
though revisions contemplating whole
sale cancellation will not meet with
favor. The Governments reciprocal
trade program, which is expected to bulk
conspicuously in conversations with the
British visitors, is guarantee that
Uncle Sam is ready to conclude with
John Bull the same mutual tariff ar
rangements negotiated with nearly q
score of other countries.
Evening star., 1937-01-20
Sportsmanship and
Racial Prejudices

To the Editor Of The Star:
The article Jews Attack on Big Fight
Crows" by Eddie Brietz, appearing in
the sports section of The Sunday Star,
January 10, 1887, doubtless caused many
a sportsman, irrespective Of creed, color,
race, or personal prejudice. to reflect
upon the meaning of the term sports
manship.
dare say that most all Of us who
ponder the question will unanimously
agree as to the real meaning of sports
manship. In deep feeling and honest
thinking, uninfluenced by prejudice or
other pressure, sportsmanship Is COM
mon to all of U.S. We are agreed that
sportsmanship is the force that motivates
a feeling of fair play. Further, believe
we all agree that how far the individual
craftsmanship is dependent upon exter-
nal pressure, usually prejudice. Where
prejudice is absent, sportsmanship is
manifest in its pure form. Where pre-
judice Is present, craftsmanship is dis
torted, deformed-even ugly to the dis
cerning spectator. Sportsmanship and
prejudice are opposing factors, their
ratio being of an inverse nature. The
article referred to offers an excellent
example Of this.
The article pleads its case under the
petticoat of democracy, American DEM
ocracy; yet 1t admits of the attempt to
destroy the interests of single person,
Max Schmeling. If this is sportsman
ship or democracy, I, for one, want no
part of it. Yet love both the spirit
Of sportsmanship and democracy.
A critical analysis of the proposed
fight shows that the participants are
neither Jewish nor Na1 in politics or
by profession. The fight is scheduled to
be fought in neither Palestine nor Nazi-
land, but in the United States. Further,
American citizens, business and Govern
ment will be almost purely the only
benefactors financially. American fight
promoters, Jewish or Nazi or not, will
get their cut. Braddock, United States
citizen, will get big cut. New York
business, probably largely Jewish, will
get its cut. BY the time city, State and
Federal Governments and managers tap
Schmeling's Golfers he will have precious
little that Naziism could possibly get
its hands on.
Sportsmanship dominated NaziiSm
during the recent Olympiad. Result was
that despite anti-NaI press activity in
the United States not one Jewish par
ticipant was treated unlike other par
ticipants.
This talk of boycotting the proposed
Braddock- -Schmeling fight is neither
American nor sportsmanlike. It's origin
and motives are obvious.
America is noted the world over for
its spirit of sportsmanship. Let us
crystalline our sentiment against any
clanism that attempts to give the world
a distorted picture of that American
sportsmanship!
F.. D. SUTTENFIELD.
Evening star., 1937-01-20

Yet that morning of the heavy rain
which began at z o'clock a cardinal sat
on shrub at the rear of the yard and
poured forth this song as if 1t we're
April instead Of mid-January.
A pretty, happy song it is at any time
It is heard, loud and clear, but possessing
that indefinite quality, which belongs to
all bird songs, Of sweetness despite loud
ness.
The birds will be holding their own
parades today.
They will fly from one feeding station
to another in every neighborhood where
people think in advance of their small
feathered friends.
One Of the best feeding devices we have
seen recently is series of porch boxes.
These have been used in lieu of rail-
Many homes do this.
This long chain of boxes has been
sprinkled with seeds and grains. and the
birds have not been slow to find the
food. The earth in the boxes makes
perfect floor for them.
They seem to enjoy these boxes
nightly and chirp and sing as they eat
in them.
utilize boxes which otherwise would be
bare and useless during the cold months.
Small pans Of water could be sunk in
one Of the boxes, and another kept well
pulverized, so that the small visitors
might take dust baths, even in Winter.
On the large bird reservations and
Sanctuaries, where shelters of boughs
are built for them, steps are always taken
to incorporate supply of real dust, so
that the songsters may have the benefit
Of this important aid to bird health.
Some one wants to know if we have
ever seen bluejays on Friday.
The old story down South, he says, is
that on Fridays these handsome, bold
birds fly away to take lesson in deviltry
from the devil himself.
This is an interesting legend, which
shows how legends are built on observa-
ton of animal characteristics, with efforts
to explain" them.
Every bird watcher knows the bluejay,
with its beautiful colors and bold ways.
The jay has quite reputation as bad,
bold fellow, yet every one who has
watched it for any length of time comes
to have a real admiration and even
fondness for it.
It's size enables it to bluff smaller
birds, even fight cats more or less
successfully.
This accounts for it's relationship, in
legend, to the devil.
The fact that it is believed to be in
visible every Friday is due to two facts,
no doubt; the first, that Friday has an
evil reputation; the second, that blue
jays as a species, are not constant visi-
tors to gardens at this time of year in
this latitude.
They are bold, piratical fellows. per-
fectly able to get their own dinners in
the woods and fields. and usually only
pay brief visits to gardens, even when
feeding stations are installed.
Hence some bird observer who hap
pened to look out on a Friday and saw
no jays concocted this legend, which
has stuck, as such legends usually do.
Sure enough, you probably won't see any
bluejayS on Friday. And you may not
see one on Monday, either!
Evening star., 1937-01-20
Young Thieves Playing
Havoc in the District

To the Editor Of The Star:
wish to call your attention to the
conditions which exist and are daily and
hourly growing worse in regard to the
juvenile delinquency with its injustice
on society and at the growing expense
of the merchant.
Being a member of the Washington
Board of Trade and the Southeast Busi-
ness Mems Association, have attempted
through these channels to curb this
situation, but find that after the police
round up these Junior criminals they
are Immediately released by the Receiv-
ing Home to again prey on new as well
as their former victims.
In my particular case the pilferage
Of accessories and batteries out Of cars
was Q great loss, but more recently the
Evening star., 1937-01-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,

Last year the fox sparrows did not
arrive in the yard until early March,
about q week before the bluebird.
It Is impossible to remember at this
time which was the most exciting bird
adventure, the advent OF the scratching
sparrow or the arrival Of the bluebird.
One Of the finest things about bird
watching is that every part of it, If one
is really interested, is on a par with
every other part.
That first fox sparrow-what pleas
ure its Identification was!
The sight of the first bluebird. real
bluebird. for the first time in a life
that, too was something fine.
And every other recognition Of a new
bird, one which the observer has never
seen before. takes on an extreme i'm
portance, utterly unknown to all the
very fine persons who. for one reason
or another, have not yet come to this
find indoor outdoor recreation.
y
This January we have what we suS-
pect is fox sparrow, but it has remained
SO far back in the yard that it is i'm
possible to identify it.
1t is true it hops back and forth as it
scratches in the leaves, and that ought
to be Identification enough, but somehow
we doubt the proof.
1t may be some other bird, which is
using this method of scratching for its
dinner, much in the same way a hen
utilizes her feet.
There is lacking in this particular
birds efforts the somewhat comical effect
achieved by the fox sparrow.
There is nothing to prove. however,
that it is not one of these different
sparrows.
For nothing is surer in bird watching
than that there are exceptions.
That is why it is unsafe to say mo"
when some one announces that there is
a robin staying in his garden this
Winter.
While few robins Winter here, oc-
casionally one of them does. Several
reports have come to this desk during
the past two Winters of robins remain
ing, usually in country districts, where
there are plenty Of barns.
Yet we have never seen robin here
abouts at this time of year.
One must beware of confusing young
cardinal male, born last Summer, with a
robin.
Although such young male really
looks nothing at all like robin, with its
rusty chest, it lacks the brilliant coloring
of old cardinal males.
Hence the newcomer to bird observa-
ton, seeing one Of these young fellows
at some distance, may not realize just
what it is and think he is seeing the bird
he knows best, the American robin.
The young cardinal male has a crest,
but quite small one in comparison with
the one of the older birds.
~
It is never good to be too positive in
the sport of bird watching.
Especially in such an unusual Winter
as the present has been, with its varying
days of cold and warmth.
The recent spell of almost Spring like
temperatures led many cardinal to sing
its true Spring song.
This song, which has been written as
"cheer. cheer, cheer" rather successfully,
is seldom heard at this time Of year in
this climate.
Evening star., 1937-01-20
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Dramatic Novelty.

Dramatic Novelty.
I'd like to go and see show
In which the villain tough
Was hissed and jeered as he appeared
Smooth, but with morals rough.
I long to find the virtuous mind
Awarded honors high
While dull defeat waits on deceit
And lovers cease to sigh.
I'd like to hear tale sincere
OF Virtue gloriied.
But now they slam an epigram
Across with sinful pride.
I wish blank verse they would rehearse
AS in the days Of yore-
This modern witt makes no hit.
I've heard it all before.
Since wickedness in charm grows less
And only can repeat
The ancient scraps picked up from chaps
With words more bold than neat,
Why not return to plots that yearn
Good manners to display?
For decent speech alone can teach
True novelty today!
Evening star., 1937-01-20

police rounded up large group of col
ored juveniles after I reported the jim
mying of window in my place Of busi-
ness and the subsequent theft of an air
compressor, spray gun, clothes, etc.
Seven of these youths boastingly admit
ted. the housebreaking and theft and
were turned over to the Receiving Home,
then Immediately released in the custody
of their parents, who rarely know their
whereabouts or activities.
Today they are members of a gang
composed of well-matured youths and
adults numbering in excess of 20 or 30.
Their activities are growing bolder daily
and they can be seen carrying their loot
of various stealings, pilferage and re-
Gently hold-ups.
Shall we, the people, let this un-
justifiable intrigue and band of thieves
continue to menace us more each day?
Or shall we force the juvenile courts to
take more serious action In their penal
idus? AUBREY B. LEE.
Evening star., 1937-01-20

Science was never so alert. A meeting
of funeral directors may be called to
explain the marvellous preservation of
the mortal remains of Lenin for the
benefit of fanatical worshipers. There
are tricks in all trades, even politics.
Evening star., 1937-01-20

There should have been two special Sec
tions in the inaugural parade for Maine
and Vermont, with allegorical pageantry
illustrating New England's effort to out
Burbank Burbank and transplant any
thing from an elephant to a sunflower
Evening star., 1937-01-20

While much difference is being shown
to masterful woman, nobody thumbs the
pages of history to revive the impress
sions made by Carrie Nation and DR..
those days.
Evening star., 1937-01-20

Theaters are said to have plans for
moving into the suburbs where rents
may be lower and parking space more
abundant. Actors were never so abun-
dant nor good plays so scarce. A new
type of current interest drama may be
developing in which performers make
up their speeches as they 60 along.
Evening star., 1937-01-20
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Mamma.

Mamma.
As I rested under an old fir tree
The scales of pine cone fell down on me.
Stealthily moving space to look
I espied, high up in spicy nook,
A red squirrel using his teeth to peel
The conical fruit for his evening meal.
Very still I kept, to watch out his game;
And, presently, straight down the trunk
he came;
Bushy tail aloft, DER the snow he leapt
And into hole in stump he crept -.
AS the night closed down on the wood
and me
I fancied how cosy that hole must be!
Evening star., 1937-01-20

Aviation is in it's infancy. It's adoles-
cence should be watched to keep it out
of bad company.
Evening star., 1937-01-20

The District of Columbia is something
for this Nation to be proud of. It's treat
ment by the Federal Government is not,
Evening star., 1937-01-20

Secretary of the Navy named Franklin
D. Roosevelt, to whom this noon, for
the second time, Chief Justice Hughes
administered the presidential oath.
copyright. 1870
Evening star., 1937-01-20
Making q Distinction.

"You advise a man to attend to his
business?"
Certainly" answered Mr.. Dustin Stax.
Suppose he is making business of
stock speculation?"
THAT isn't attending to his business.
That's trying to guess other peoples
business"
Evening star., 1937-01-20
No Diversion.

No Diversion.
"You took your small sons to the Zoo"
eyes," answered Senator Sorghum.
by way of recreation?"
1T didn't seem like that. Before they
got through asking questions felt as
if I had landed somehow as the prin-
cipal witness before an investigating
committee
Jud Tunkins says he likes the idea OF
being self-sustaining, but the man who
laughs at his own jokes overdoes 1t.
"Great magniicence of attire" said
Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, us
prompted by the vain hope that the
vestments and jewels will be mistaken
for the man himself"
Evening star., 1937-01-20
D>,ro-l - Th.;f<

Reward OF Thrift.
The best reward of Thrift,
If you will heed it,
Is giving folks a lift
Who really need it.
Evening star., 1937-01-20
Overwhelming knowledge.

Overwhelming knowledge.
The magazines still come to view
With grave opinions aptly told.
# I thought all Of them were true
I'd know more than my head could
hold.
Evening star., 1937-01-20

"In desc days." said Uncle Eben, when
q joy-ride starts an ambulance jes'
natchelly jines In a. . part Of De per-
cession."