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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06
Destructive Hired Help.

COMEBODY found stained glass
~ window in an English church
dating back to 685 A. D., but stiA
intact. And from the ruins of a
Roman villa, they've dug out a mar
BILE figure of Apollo-the ona the
mineral water was named after-in
a perfect state although 1000 years
old.
These discoveries are especially
interesting to this family as tending
to show that hired help isn't what it
must have been in the ancient time.
We once had a maid of the real
old Viking stock who, with the best
intentions on earth, broke every
thing she laid finger on. Moreover,
she could stand fatfooted in the
middle of a large room and cause
treasured articles of virtu, such as
souvenirs of the st. Louis Worlds
fair and the china urn / won for
superior spelling back in 1904 at the
Elks' carnival, to leap to the floor
and be smashed to atoms. She
didn't have to touch them or even
90 near them. think she did it by
animal magnetism or capillary at
traction or something of that nature.
The first time we saw the Winged
Victory, Mrs. Cobb and decided it
must have been an ancestor of
Helsa who tried to dust it-with the
disastrous results familiar to all low
ers of classic statuary.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06

as independents. Rosser Venable,
who opposed Robinson in the 1896
primary, had indicated that if Bal
ley were nominated he would run in
opposition. The state Republican
committee was reported seeking an
opponent for the governor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06
Barley, SO; Harrison, 81

GEN. WILLIAM H. DIETERICH
y. of Illinois changed his mind at
the last minute and today Alben w.
Barley, hard-fisted, clustering SEN
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06
The Reaping Season.


CERTAIN crops may not have
~ done so well, due to weather
conditions, or, as some die-hard
Republicans would probably con-
tend, because of New Deal control.
But, on the other hand, hasn't it
been splendid ripening season for
sit-downs, walk-outs, shut-ups, lock-
outs and picket lines?
It makes me think OF the little
story the late Myra Kelly used to
tell of the time when she was pub
lie school teacher on New York's
East Side. She was questioning her
class of primarygrade pupils,
touching on the callings of their re-
spective parents. She came to one
tiny sad-eyed little girl, shabby and
thin and shy.
"Rosie," she asked, Eat what does
your father work."
"Mein poppa he don't never work,
Teacher" said Rosie.
doesn't he do anything at alp"
"Oh, yessum."
'Well, what does he do?"
s'He strikes"
IRWIN S. COBB
G-WNU Service
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06
Joe Robinson's Successor

TT HE Democratic state committee
1 of Arkansas nominated Gov.
Carl e. Bailey to be the late Joseph
T. Robinson's successor as United
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
PLEADS OWN CASE
WINS ACQUITTAL

Jackson, Miss, Oct. 7 (ANP)-
Appearing in court here last Thurs
day without legal counsel and
electing to plead his own case,
Shelly Stephenson, Madison county
youth, defended himself against a
liauor charge is such a straight
forward convincing manner that
the jury deliberated but ten min
utes, brought in a verdict Of not
guilty.
Stephenson had endered a plea of
not guilty to operation Of a whiskey
still and while examining the
governments chief witness, Madi
son county colored woman, he rails
ed a doubt as to the %credibility Of
the colored woman's testimony. He
told the jury emphatically he knew
nothing about the still. The jurors
were apparently impressed by his
open manner and sincerity,
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
Warns Catholics To
Aid Negroes Now .
Before Reds Do

Brooklyn, Oct. 7 by Roth Fran
els for ANP)-In a recent issue of
I~nterracial Review George K. Hun
ton under the caption Catholics
Communism and the Negro" con
tends that i~nterracia1 justice is an
essential part Of social justice, and
white Catholics have not realized
that the Negro group is the most
disvantaged in America.
Admitting the fact that the Ne
gro is the most logic ally Of Com
munism, he regrets also MEAN
time, the Communists is pointing
out to the Negro the cruel Unjust
ices that are heaped upon him,
promising him equality of oppor
tunity and actually treating him
with respect as a human being.
The Catholic who feels that we
can afford to wait a decade or two
until race prejudice has worm away
is living in a FOOLS paradise. The
appeal of Communism to the Ne
gro is even more imminent than the
general threat of Communism in
America. This is an immediate
problem that challenges our inter
est and our enlightened action"
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
Ch casoans Honor Major Lynch

speakers paid deserved tribute to
their guest of honor.
Venerable Major Lynch has had
a distinguished record of public ser
vice equalled by few Americans.
lie is a former G871) Speaker of
the Mississippi House of Represen
tatives: three times (1872 to 1889
Representative in the United States
Congress: Paymaster C906 to
1911 of the United States Army
and Auditor (1889 to 1899 Of the
u. S. Treasury for the Navy De
partment during President Harri
sons administration. He is also
widely known as a lawyer, author
ard republican political leader.
Once, while Army Paymaster,
stationed at New Orleans, South
ern white soldiers refused to take
their pay from a Negro" Major
Lynch wired Washington for in
~structions, received the reply:
They'll take their pay from you
or not ALL The soldiers lined up,
received their vouchers from the
Major.
In 1884, Major Lynch was elected
temporary chairman Of the Repu
blican national convention, held il
Chicago. He was made a Major
during the Spanish American
War by President Mckinley. He
has made Chicago his home since
1912.
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09

New York, Get. IA sharp pro
test against the forcing Of Nagro
labor off the WPA rolls in southern
states into jobs as cotton pickers at
substandard wages was filed with
Harry L. Hopkins, WPA admins
traitor. by the NAACP this week.
The NAACP protest was a e
view Of the rep rts which have
CONT to the association since
September oh. 81 NAKED by the
complaint received this week from
Fayetteville. N. c., which charged
that colored women are being
taken off WPA projects and forced
to accept cotton picking jobs. The
Fayetteville complaint states that
the women wer tod to take their
children out Of school and make
them pick cotton also.
No white m in Fayetteville
were ordered into the cotton fields
from WPA projects.
Thu colared won n in Fayette
vile were being paid only S24 n
month and they were working orr
einally on sewing projects. How
ever. thu were shifted from that
arei neA 4a4nnef labor such IS
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
Praise Officials For
Wage Adjustment

New York, Oct. 7(ANP)-Pull
nan portegs end maids throughout
thu country th's week were high
in praise of The Importance playeI
recently Icy Champ Carry, vice
president Of the Pullman Company
~ Robert Cole, representative Of
the National Mediation Board, IN
the negotiations leading up TO thu
SI.250,000 wage increase granted to
nearly 5000 Pullman employees.
The two representative met with
A. Philip Randolph and Milton P.
Webster, pres dent ard vice presi
dent, respectively, Ct The Brother
hood of Sleeping Gar Porlers, in
negotiations which began in Febr.
1887, and which were climaxed in
nd August, by the company's of
fer made on. it's motion to grant
wac increases totallirg nearly
e90, 600 o month";, based ON a 240
/ u month. The wo king agree
ment was signed by the Pullman
Company representatives and those
eff the Brotherhood, on August 18th
in Chicago offices of the Pullman
Company.
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
W.P.A. WOMEN Forced TO PICK COTTON
M.A.A.C.P. Makes Protest To
Hopkins on Carolina Complaint:
Demand Sweeping Investigation

cutting grass around schools for
white children, scrubbing and
cleaning white schools, cleaning the
white churches, and CLEANING up
the Jail.
Tho pay for this work was low
cnough-S24 \ month, but as cot
ton piekers. it is estimated that
the women will not be able to earn
more than twelve or fifteen dollars
! month since most CT them are
not expert p;ckors end, therefore,
are net abe to carr more than
so cents a day.
The NAACP letter to Adm mis-
traitor Hopkins cited the pledge OF
the WPA made by Thaddeus Holt,
assistant administrator, in the fall
of 1896, that state administrators
had been instructed not to close
down WPA projects in cotton
areas unless employment at stand
ard wages was definitely available.
Tt cited, also, the report from Bib
county, Ca, in June, 1887, that
Negroes we're being forced off
WPA projects into private employ
ment regardless Of wages offered,
with a penalty Of heing Jailed il
they did not accept the i9bs.
The NAACP charged that WPA
administrators had an agreement
to cooperate" with private employ
ers, especially planters, N transfer
rin@ Negroes.
Demand was made non Mr..
Hopkins to investigate It once
$50 nraetees IN II the cotton
states and 70 warn WPA admins
t~fators of the penalties of volating
the federal STATUTES aga INST TO cling
labor. tt asked Mr.. Hopkins, also
insofar as possible, to cooperate
with tho department Of Justice by
placing before the latter and evi
dence Of peonage it may uncover.
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
Southern White Man
Indicts Lynching

Memphis, Oct. 7 (ANP)-A re
markable Indictment against lynch
ing and mob violence was contained
in a letter printed recently by the
Commercial Appeal in its Voice of
the People, column. The writer,
Mr.. Earl Hill of Brighton, Tenn,
is q prominent and respected white
resident Of his community and
minces no words in his manly, i'm
pressive appeal for the adjustment
OF lynching. He says, in part:
at was not taught me by my
parents, but | grew up, like most
southern boys, with the feeling that
lynching a Negro was not much a
crime, but, under certain eircum
stances, in order to maintain the
standing of true blood southerners,
very necessary. However times
have changed. l have changed.
at seems to me that the only
answer is a Federal law against
lynching. 1t seems that among all
tho peoples of the earth our south
ern senator's and congressman
should support the passage of such
q law. When lyncAers are probably
some of your friends, or might be
/ some Of your own household, what
can you do about it? Occasionally,
but very, very rarely has it ever
happened that justice has come to
one of our best friends or a close
relative, if the netting out of the
justice depended on US. Most of
that kind of work is in the story
books. Then for the sake of justice,
law and order, and everything else
that maks our country a good place
in which to live. let US have a
Federal law against lynching,"
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
Society Girl
R9su diatGS The
CHARGE of Suit

- as'ls TT brne riin.ed the
following to y, and the clipping Of
Ihe same was mailed to the accls
ed.
.Wife's Suit Names Other
Woman"
= husband told her he was
going with another woman and
thep edded insult 10 injury by
adding that she was to dumb
to see it, Mrs.Matt.e M.DOtson
20. of 1923 Harper street, Der
kley. charged in her divorce
suit, filed IN Superior court
yesterday.
Kenneth A. DOtson, "a, is
the husband. The other woman
named in the complaint is Juan
tia Artison. She is about 10,
Mrs. Dotson's attorney, John
c. Henderson, said.
1.-THE couple were married in
Berkeley, June II, 1884. They
separated July Is, 1897. They
have two children, Kenneth,
and Charles, 5 months.
ION n occasion, the wife
says her husband struck her,
causing a permanent scar.
"She asks $40 a month sup
port for herself and $40 a
month for the Children"
Mrs. Lewis Artison, jr. made the
following statement denying thu
above printed article which was
printed in the Oakland Tribune;
81, Mrs. Lewis Artison, jr., wisl
to state that this item is not true
and I know nothing Of such al
affair. The reason for my leaving
my husband, Mr.. Lewis Artison, il
was having affairs with other W.
men in the same house where w
lived. The other woman was Beula'
Gibbons. I wish to state also tina
Mr.. Artison, ir., struck me leaving
me i'll in bed for two weeks. | ais
wish to state that Mr.. Artison toll
-.
me if I didn't like his affairs wit
this woman to leave. Pm suing Mn
Artison now for not supporting hi
Children Mrs. Lewis Artison, j
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
Mans Body Dragged.
Over Mile Under Auto

Tuscaloosa, Ala, Oct. z (ANP)-
Authorities here last Monday We're
ieFasi ig8tirs a tragic, unusual
accident, in which the body of a
raon. identified later as Rufus
Crawford. 35. vas dragged Q mile
md a half. wedged ii hly beneath
fhe 1ear of an auto. The car was
driven by a white woman resident,
e0route 10 the home of her colored
cook. On the way home she ran
over what she thought was n
block of wood in the road, but dis
covered to be Crawford's body
underneath.
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
CCCYo Discharge
$4,000 EnrOllees

Washington, Oct. 7 (ANP)
Civilian Conservation Co ps eff
Gals said last week that approx
mately $4,000 enrollees viii he dis
charged during September, 10 eoa
ply with an act of Con~re s ox
tending CCC for three years. Ac
cording to the act. the age Init
for enrollees was fixed at 24 years,
the time service limited to two
years. Those dismissed, say officials
eithes have passed the age limit
Of srved more than two years. A
drive for CCC employment ly bust
ness and industrial firms was start
ed on Labor day.
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
Charges PostofFice Discrimination

New York, Oct. IA charge that
postmasters in the south have de
liberately set out to embarass and
drive out Negro employees from
the postal service was charged here
this week by the NAACP in a
letter to w. w. Howes, first assist
ant postmaster general, in Wash
ington.
The letter also charged that
southern postmasters are refusing
Negro postal employees the ap
pointments and promotions they
are due according to merit and
their ranking under the civil ser
vice and that the post office de
rartment in Washington "has no
special solicitude to see that the
Negro employees are given equal
protection with other citizens"
The letter to Mr.. Howes was &C
casioned by the dismissal of Ezra
II. Nix, a carrier in the Montgom
cry, Ala, post office. MIR. Nix is
supposed to have accumulated so
many demerits that he was deemed
to be an inefficient employee, but
tha NAACP pointed out that Mr..
Nix had an efficiency rating of 81
Der cent or better for the -four
years 1929 to 1882, and that in
the four years, he accumulated
only 80 demerits-eleven in 1929
and twenty two in 1930-with none
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
South Takes Lead i.
IN Hog Raising

Washington, Oct. (ANP-Good
1tasas fer house wives who have re
Gently been lamenling the sto7d ~
Increasing prices Of hem ard ba
con, was gwen this week by The
Fejefa4 Asfsaaulp ne department
whose report disclosed that the
South eifher increased or cont.nu
ed normal swine product on in fhe
past several wears, While the
drought hit middle western states
and most of the rest Of the coun
try have reduced their output. In
crease in the South in hog produc
tion was from II 100000 head in
1896, to Il, 97s,0O0 for this year.
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09

Chicago, Oct. 7 (ANP)-Repre
sentative Chicagoans of both races
gathered around the banquet table
Of Wabasr YMCA last Friday night
to honor Major John r. Lynch on
his goth birthday. The dinner was
sponsored by the Citizens Civic and
Economic Welfare Council of Chi
cage and over the coffee cups
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09

n 1881 and 1882.
However, with the change of ad
ministration in 1888, Mr.. Nix sud
denly began to accumulate a huge
amount of demerits. He was given
135 dement's in 1884 and 434 in
1885.
The NAACP letter to Mr.. Howes
signed by Charles H. Houston,
special counsel, stated: Frankly,
this record is hot reasonable. 1t
does not make sense in the ordin
ary experience Of mankind. There
must be other elements in the pic
ture. The sudden accumulation of
demerits for insubordination and
other alleged offenses which have
been charged against veteran Ne
gro employees in the past five
years in different post Offices in
the south are enough to aus any
fair minded person to be skeptical.
vi 90 state, however, that they
did not suddenly change their char
acter for the worst with the event
of the resent administration.
We must insist that the central
administration in Washington give
the most careful scrutiny to such
shocking changes in merit ratings
as the Nix case, and many other
cases of Negro postal employees, in
the south"
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
SIX BOYS WITH BICYCLES
TO R YOU
Notice to Subscribers:

If you do not get your paper at
least in the Saturday morning mail,
call the office, Webster 1917, and
we will send you a paper at once.
Mr.. C. C. Galloway, Manager
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09
Local Opinions on Black Appointment
Guide Reporter Interviews Local
Leaders Following aadiO Address:
Appointment Generally Vetoed

streets, says, II am not much in
Yer Of the appointment. There is
too much opposition
Mrs. Villa Johnson, one of
Omaha's leading beauticians, stat
ed: Il haven't read much ebout It,
all / know IS what the different
people have to say about It, so |
would rather not make a statement
until | have fully read about the
matter"
(Coninr,ed on Page g.
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09

Monkey Trees" n being nurtur
ed for transplanting to the site Of
San Francisco's 1889 Exposition.
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09

Nj. Jam ? Il, proprietor of The
Mid Way Cafe, ard tie Harlem
night club, seys, 81 think its a
ID Shame. A man goes for
Supreme Justice, should be a man
that is not a xxx and a man that
is not against any creed Of any
kind. | don't think that Black
should have that job. He admitted
once having belonged to the XXX
organization. There is one question
that he failed to answer in his
broadcast, and why did he fail to
answer 1t is, Why did he join the
xxx" Answer it, will you.
The Omaha guide., 1937-10-09

e. J. Thomas, Pharmacist at the
Duffy Pharmacy, oath ard Lake
The Washington times., 1937-05-04
DAILY TIMES
TABLE
TODAY

4:30 P.M.-Meeting, Washing.
ton Criminal Justice, Willard
Hotel.
8 P.M.--Meeting, botanical! So,
ciety Of Washington, Assembly
Hall Of Cosmos Club.
8 PM.-Contract Bridge, lee
ture on Asking Bids" by Maxwell
L. Johnston, from Culbertson Stu.
dos, Central High School.
$3.50 P.M.-Dance, H 9 HI a n d
Park, Willard Hotel.
$3.50 P.M.-Concert by the Ru-
binstein Club, willard Hotel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Civitan
Club, Mayflower Hotel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Optimist
Club, Mayflower Hotel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Ii on s
Club directors, Mayflower Hotel
3 P.M.-Meeting, Homeopathic
Medical Society of the District Of
Columbia, dinner at Z p. m, May.
flower Hotel.
$3.50 P.M-Theater, Washington
Civic Theater, Wardman Park
Hotel.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Society
Of America, Wardman Park Hotel.
TOMORROW
Convention-International Asso-
citation of Public Employment
Services, Wardman Park Hotel.
$50 P.M-Conference, National
Transportation, Carlton Hotel.
10 A.M.-Meeting, American Bar
Association (Section of real prop
erty, probate and trust law), May.
flower Hotel.
10 A.M.-Meeting, Cooperating
Committee, American Law Insti-
tute, Mayflower Hotel.
10 A.M.-Meeting, dinner at 7
p. M, American Judicature So
ciety, Mayflower Hotel.
1890 A.M.-Meeting, George
Washington University Hospital
Board, Mayflower Hotel.
10 A.M.-Meeting, luncheon at l
p. m, Council, American Law 1nSti-
tute, Mayflower Hotel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon meeting,
American Bar Association (section
on international and comparative
law), Mayflower Hotel.
1890 P. M.-Luncheon meeting,
District of Columbia Medical So
ciety, Mayflower Hotel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Lions
T1JIh MavfIOweTs Hotel
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Rotary
Club, Willard Hotel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Electri-
cal Institute, Carlton Hotel.
8 P.M.-Meeting, Washington
Philatelic Society, Carlton Hotel.
8 P.M.-Meeting, Young Demo-
cratic Club Of Washington, D. c.,
Willard Hotel.
Registration for National Safe
Deposit Convention, Willard Hotel.
The Washington times., 1937-05-04
POWER SET-UP
GETS STUDY0
PRESIDENT
BY GEORGE DURNO

GALVESTON, Texas, May 4
U.N.S0.-A comprehensive Fed
eral power program designed to
link UP the nation with eight de-
velopment areas similar to the
Tennessee Valley Authority was
in the making today aboard the
White House yacht Potomac
somewhere off the Texas coast.
President Roosevelt, between
sallies for tarpon, was understood
to be preparing a special message
to Congress on the subject.
The message probably will be
relayed up to Washington and
submitted before conclusion of the
Presidential fishing cruise.
For some time the administra-
ton has been moving in the di-
rection Of fullest possible public
power development under a cen
trail control. Success of the iva
experiment and the availability of
Boulder, Bonneville and Grand
Coulee dams-plus a desire to
regulate rates more uniformly
have decided the President to
present his plan Immediately.
Senator George Norris Cd, Of
Nebraska, father of the IVA act,
has been working on a bill of this
nature for some time with the
help of interested Government
agencies. Mr.. Roosevelt's message
probably will pave the way for its
introduction at once.
Dependent upon the condition
Of the sea, the Presidential fish
ing flotilla was expected to move
south toward Brownsville from
the anchorage off Port Arkansas,
where the last three days have
been spent.
The Washington times., 1937-05-04
Coast Air Station
Approved by House

The Couse yesterday passed and
sent to the Senate bill authoriz-
ing the Secretary OF the Treasury
to accept a donation of land for
establishment Of a Coast Guard
air station in the San Francisco
Bay region. The membership elm.
mated an authorization for $780,.
600 for the land.
The Washington times., 1937-05-04
Williams College
Saved" by Biz Gift

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.-Stat-
ing that the 100000 gift of
Samuel Hopkins last fall had tenn
porarily saved Williams College
from an embarrassing financial
position, Charles D. Makepeace,
treasurer Of the college, said in
The Record, campus newspaper,
following a financial survey of the
institution, that the receipts of
the college had dropped nearly
100000 since 1881.
The Washington times., 1937-05-04
Shotgun Discarded;
Town Goes Modern

PAULSBORO, N. j., May 4
GNS0.-PaulSboro citizens took
steps today to assure themselves
Of better protection than that af-
forded by a police force whose
only weapon is an Anticipated shot
gun.
Disturbed by the recently re-
vealed inadequacy Of the five-man
forces artillery, merchants con-
tributed $3.50 toward purchase Of
a SIlb-machine gun,
The Washington times., 1937-05-04

KEEPING OUT OF THE SERVICE STATION.
So you can see that La Sale V-8 is about as
easy to own as any car you could buy.
Why not come in today-and LOOK. at
La Sale? One look and one ride-and you'll
know why so many thousands are turning to this
big, l25-horsepower va.
Delivered Pro' at Detroit Mc $lO05 and up subject to
change D'O"t notice illustrated the curing Sedan
deOered price at Detroit 1890 These prices include al
standard accessories transportation State and Local Sales
Taxes, Optional accessories and EQ.ipmeru - Ezra.