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Twin-City herald., 1937-04-10

seventeen, he had experience In
coal-mines, doing work far beyond
his years, receiving almost nothing
for it; learning about labor agents,
labor camps, and Discrimination.
When he was seventeen he hap
pened to see a leaf1et announcing
a meeting Of the Unemployment
Council. That was in Birmingham.
Herndon attended the meeting;
and for the first time realized that
the "same vicious interests that
were expressing Negro workers
were doing the same thing TO
white workers, that both black and
white worker could solve their
problems only by a united effort
against the common enemy He
was then ripe for the suggestion
that Communism provided that
"united effort" His activities
thereafter among the coal-miners
and the share-croppers of Alabama
and his evident affiliation with the
Communist Party brought him in
disrepute with. the police; and more
than, one attempt was made prior
to the Atlanta incident to indict
him. He served more than one
Jail sentence, although they were
each of short duration, since no
charge could be found against him.
"Let Me Livc" contains an ex-
pose of the prison system in the
South and especially of conditions
in the Fulton County: !. jail i'll
Georgia, for Herndon tells. Of the
lack of sanitation, and medical st,
tention, of unpalatable food, Of
deliberate tormenting by the jail
ers, of a corpse left in his cell for
twenty hours, etc. When after
twenty-six months under unbeliev-
ably vile conditions he was re-
leased on bail, he was not as
overjoyed as one night expect.
He knew that nothing had been
really solved: Zone great truth
discovered at the moment of my
freedoms That as long as there
will be men rotting unjustly In
foul prisons, neither l., nor anyone
else, can ever be free."
Whether or not one agrees with
the underlying philosophy of this
work as pointing the way out, pne
cannot fail to find it q moving
indictment of the society in which
we live. 1t is not Herndon who is
on trial but a system in which such
evils as he describes. can flourish
He asks to live; but his request is
for more than that: He, like many
others who work, would like
larger reward for his labor; but
he also pleads for world ir
which "justice, enlightenment anf
humanity should be practice6
among men," This book serves to
dramatic the oppression of work
ers, Negro and white, the evils c.
antiquated systems of law thai
permit such abuses as the chair
gang, the dehumanizing effects O.
poverty and ignorance, the com
mon cause of labor. 1t is not
Herndon alone, but many others
who are saying with him, "We
will fight on until we have secured
not only social equality, but every
kind of equality. To this end /
will dedicate my life until the day
l die."
Twin-City herald., 1937-04-10

This was Angelo Herndon's an
swer to Judge Wyatt when in 1882
he was convicted Of attempting to
incite to insurrection," under a
Georgia state law; first passed in
1861, I'd prevent slave insurrec-
lions, and revised in 1871 to in
clude "any attempt to induce
others to join in combined re-
sistance to the lawful authority of
the state" 1t is well known that
Harndon as a boy of nineteen was
arrested twenty-four hours after
he had taken part. before the
Atlanta Courthouse, in . a demonr
stration by a thousand Negro and
white workers who were asking
for adequate relief; that he was
kept in Jail for eleven days with
cut any charges being brought
against him; that finally Com
mUn:3t literature found in his
room gave the authorities an op-
portunity to invoke against him
an old law passed during the Civil
War to prevent instructions of
slaves; that he was imprisoned for
more than two years and then
released on bail; that unless the
Supreme Court of the United
States now reverses his indictment
he will be doomed to eighteen
years on the Georgia chain gan.
Angelo Herndon reviews these
facts in his autobiography, "Let
Ne Live," which has just come
from the press. He reviews also
the circumstances which led to his
being part of. that demonstration
before the Atlanta Courthouse, in
June, 1882 = circumstances which
begin with his birth as the son of
a coal-miner, in Wyoming, Ohio.
His earliest memories are of
poverty.
"Get an education, Angelo. Lift
yourself above our condition" This
was impressed upon Angelo even
before he started to school. They
were his fathers last words to
him. He took seriously the trust
put upon him and worked we'll in
school. But his schooling stopped
when he was thirteen, his father
having died when the boy was
nine. Most of Angeles "educa-
tion," therefore, has been in coal
mines, in labor camps and in jails.
Between the ages of thirteen and
Twin-City herald., 1937-04-10

"You may do what you will with
Angelo Herndon. You may indict
him. You may put him in Jail.
But there will come other thou
sands of Angelo Herndons. If
you really want to do anything
about the case, you must go out
and indict the social system"
Twin-City herald., 1937-04-10
Letters From Commercial
Students Pour In On
Marion Marshall
18 TYPISTS FROM w. VA.
HIGH SCHOOL LAUD YOUNG
II. Y. SHORTHAND WRITER
SPEED TEST WINNER IS CALLED
HIGH EXAMPLE TO YOUTH
OF OUR GROUP

New York-(C)-Eighteen stu
dents and their instructor, Miss Jose
phine C. Morris, of the Typewriting
Department of Garnet High School,
Charleston, w, Va, each wrote per-
sonal letter of congratulation to Miss
Marion Marshall, secretary of CAL
wins Newspaper Service, 143 w. 125th
street, on the appearance of an al:
ticle concerning her high school
record in Rutherford and Passaic, NJ
j., and her writing of radio short
hand speed tests, in "T'he Gregg
Writer" published by the Gregg Pub
fishing Company, 27O Madisoa ave-
nOe.
Sends Congratulations
Miss Morris letter to Miss Mar
shall reads: II enclose some letters
which were written by students in
our high school to you. 1 also en-
close copy OF letter which l sent
to The Gregg Writer. These letters
I think are self-explanatcry.
u join our students in congratulate
ing you upon the success you have
had in the past and 1 wish fer you
continued success and happiness"
JEANNE DUNLOP wrote: "Such
an achievement as yorE sgu-
and I nai ght say every Negro boy
and gErl, onward toward higher goals
in the business world.
''The success that you have had
proves that Negro high school stu
dents can 30 such things even tuods,l
-.-y may have to work harder to
Twin-City herald., 1937-04-10
Let ME LIVE
A R E V I E w
By ROBERT L. NELSON
international Negro Press

LET NE LIVE: The Autobiography of Angelo Herndon,
New York. Random House, 1897, 400 pp. $3.50
Twin-City herald., 1937-04-10
COMMERCE REPORTS
By FLOYD j. CALVIN

It is encouraging to learn that the
Department OF Commerce, thrc,'-
Division of Negro Affairs }. =
Bureau of Foreign and D.
Commerce, is stepping cut bo a. i
TO the Negre field and atrerae ..:g Il
render a real information service tc
this group Of the natoinS entl- zen
eurs. In Notes and Comment -
lind much material which viii; gloi
only promote better business al All
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Evening star., 1937-12-13
DEATHS REPORTED

John R. Jones, 81, 1898 11th st.
John E. Dorm. s3 1914 Connecticut ave
William ?. Sutherland. 81. Homeopathi,
David w. HALEY. 70. United States Sol
:. diers' Home Hospital
May M. Joyce, "a, 1340 Vermont ave.
Joseph e. Stacks. 73. Episcopal Hospital,
William Elummer. SO. 1109 4th st s.e
James Johnson, 81, Emergency Hospital.
Eda /. Shley. SO. 1913 Jefferson st
pital.
infant Shreye, Georgetown Hospital.
Harriet Briggs, SO. 1044 44th st. ne.
Roy Greenfield. As, Garfield Hospital
Nathaniel Wingfield A.. 439 2nd st. s.w.
Daisy Seasles, a, Gallinger Hospital.
Joseph S. Jones, 81. Gallinger Hospital.
Henson Saunders; 30 Gallinger Hospital.
Infant Strickland. Gallinger Hospital.
Infant Veverly Bell. Childrens Hospital.
Infant Montgomery. 349 Mclean ave. sw
Evening star., 1937-12-13

production was best for everybody In
the long run, various groups, such as
agriculture, labor and manufacturing,
were forced into efforts to decrease
production as retaliatory measures
against each other. Thus vicious cir
cles were set up.
DR.. Abbot limited by his question
that possibly another natural law was
IN operation which, as in the case of
the plant, set limit to the limitless
extension of progress.
Other members of the panel were
DR.. Lyman j. Briggs, director Of the
Bureau Of Standards, and Huston
Thompson, who served as chairman.
Evening star., 1937-12-13
| Bottle of Coins
For Lunch Fund
Taken by Thief

Here's an add to your "meanest
man" list.
A thief who chopped his way into
Peoples drug store in the 900 block
OF Ninth street NV. last night, was
not content with stealing $50 cartons
Of cigarettes, but on his way out took
from the counter milk bottle full
Of coins contributed to the free lunch
fund and for underprivileged chill
dren.
John P. Sweeney. assistant man.
ager of the store. told police the thief
forced a rear door and chopped his
way through a wood and cardboard
wall,
Evening star., 1937-12-13
APACHE IS RETIRED
BY COAST GUARD
Chesapeake Bay Cutter Had Res.
cued 1884 Persons During
46 Years Service.

The veteran Coast Guard cutter
Apache which, officials estimate, has
rescued 1894 persons and aided ship
ping worth $36,o0o,0oo during her
career, was retired from service today.
The Apache was the oldest vessel in
the service. and for 81 of her 46 years
she had been attached to the Chesa-
peake Bay area. She was launched in
Baltimore in 1891, and is now at the
Coast Guard base at Curtis Bay there.
During the World War, the Apache
Evening star., 1937-12-13
BIRTHS REPORTED

Bernard and Catherine Poss. jr., boy.
Samuel and Regina Owens. boy.
Edward and Dorothy Green. boy.
Robert and Nancy Davis, boy.
Vern and Laurel Myers, girl
Herbertta and Margaret Smith. girl.
Wallace and Betty Gardella, boy.
Lloyd and Margaret MCMILLAN, boy.
BENJAMIN and Sina Sharp. boy
Charles and Margaret Parks. boy.
Edward and Hermine Stewart. girl
Alfred and Daisy Barnes, boy.
Evening star., 1937-12-13
Ohioans Meet Tonight,

Senator Bulkley, Democrat, of
Ohio, will preside tonight at the
Ohio State Society's first meeting of
the season at $3.50 in the Raleigh
Hotel.
Entertainment will be provided by
Stricklan Gillian, Ohio humorist and
philosopher, who will present a take
of on a country school spelling bee.
Evening star., 1937-12-13

was engaged in mine laying and
patroling of the Virginia Capes and
she frequently served as the craft of
the Secretary Of the Treasury.
The new 165-foot cutter Calypso
will take the Apache's place.
Evening star., 1937-12-13

Train trd,ei is safer. quicker
and more oonrenient. No high.
Uay hazards or delays: its
economical. TOO.
Enjoy the comfort of indi,id.
uot seats in B & o coaches.
clean. ~ell.Iighted and roomy.
Good meals when you want
them and courteous B & o
service. in Coach or Pullman.
Or why not have the home folks
visit you? Our Ticket Agents
will make all arrangements.
Evening star., 1937-03-12

Whatever you want to make you look your pretes for
Easter (t's smart to be pretty you knowD you'll
find in the Junior Deb Shop Ellen Kaye, Louise Multi
gan, Cortwght-young American designers inspired
by slim, gay American youth-contrbute their excIu-
slve designs exclusively to JeIIeffs in Woshinqton.
Here are young prints, pert os the latest e-crock
crisp, busness-lIke redingote styles for the briQht
young career woman. Locetrimmed afternoon froCks
Dance focks frothy as the goyes Easter vacation de-
monds Make the Junior Deb Shop your Easter head
quarters for dresses and costumes for fashion
and value! Sizes to H.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
by Ira S. VILE, MD.

ages, when science was young and
knowledge of natural laws was ex-
tremely limited. Man has always
feared spirits. ghosts. vague powers
and forces that might show him NAL
ice, or treat him with disfavoE. In his
amazement, awe and fear at what he
could not explain. he developed a
dread he tried to overcome.
In ignorance he was willing to try
anything that might give him sense
of reinsurance to offset his sense of
Evening star., 1937-07-11

danger. A child wears bag of asa
fetida to ward off infantile paralysis:
a man carries horse chestnut to
escape rheumatism; New Jersey
mother and daughter drink "voodoo
water; Pennsylvania woman fights
the spell of the hex; charms against
the evil eye are purchased by multi
tudes in sophisticated New York.
Superstition continues because mans
fears and doubts tend to overcome
his power of reason.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
Continued from pogs ten

Bynne's lips parted but before he
could speak two Cinnamon, sumptu-
ously dressed, entered and with cupped
hands bowed before him. They were
accompanied by clerks carrying port
folios and a European whose multi
failed to disguise the trained officer
inside His heels clicked and his hand
went up in a military salute.
Captain Aldyreff. at your service,
sir" he announced. Il have the great
honor to be your liaison officer and am
instructed by high authority to offer
heartfelt congratulations on your safe
arrival"
"Sit down. Captain" said Bynne.
ASK these gentlemen to sit down.
This is MIR. Aired Long. my friend
and pilot. Red. do you mind telling
Miss Lloyd need herr"
Shall come back, sir?"
Not unless l send for you"
Red discovered Tracy. high color
in her cheeks, pretending to read a
book while Mrs. Bynne, standing with
her back to her, pretended to look
out the window. blackened by night.
He sensed electricity in the air and
hastened to give his message. Tracy
rose promptly. He stood back to let
her pass and was upon the point of
leaving when Mrs. Bynne spoke to his
reflection in the pane. Don't CO."
She turned with the suppleness. al
ways surprising. OF languid women
who need no exercise to keep their
figures. Her lovely face with its full
red lips had the quality of living
white flower. Lazy eyes. family
amused, dwelt on his handsome fea-
lures until he began to flush. Angry
at himself he spoke a little sharply.
DO you want me, Mrs. Bynne?"
''Yes - in a way"
She moved toward him till she
stood quite close. Then, without warn
ing, she kissed him - hungrily. Too
quick for thought. the man in him rose
to the challenge He was holding her.
crushing her. The fame of her raced
in his blood and crashed against his
brain, restoring it tardily to action.
His head drew back. His eyes, horri-
fed, fastened on Di-D's smiling Wis
age in the window pane. He drew
forcibly aside. DID saw thatr
Il know" she murmured.
"What will he think?"
THAT you're an amateur, Red.
You're too rough"
Her coolness, far from steadying
him, dealt him stunning blow. He
backed away from her laughing eyes.
went to his own compartment - his
and Bynne's! - and crawled into bed.
He lay awake, his eyes staring at
Evening star., 1937-07-11

OBERT A. MILLIKAN, interna-
tional authority on physics.
II addressing Danish scientists at
~ Copenhagen. emphasized the
need for swifter scientific progress. to
counteract current outbreaks of super
stition. Said he: The world has not
for 300 years faced a reaction like the
present, when mankind is told to re-
turn to superstition and irrationalism
and against science"
Superstition is a relic of distant
Evening star., 1937-07-11

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Evening star., 1937-07-11

to Peiping. Can you talk Chinese?"
The cultural tone dropped to
cautious, eager whisper. "Di-Di China
boy, Master. Know Mandarin. Spik
Japanese. Spik English. Good valet.
Be good boy for you, Master. Me 60
to Peiping. make evlithing easy along
you"
"All right" said Bynne abruptly.
See to baggage, then find US car"
Five minutes later Mrs. Bynne and
Tracy were climbing into the tonneau
of taxi, pressing into opposite cor
ners Bynne ordered Red into the
space between them with an imperious
nod. He and DID crowded in beside
the driver. They were of. Di-Di with
his bamboo back-scratcher pointing
out the sights.
On the train Di-Di proved a god
send. He waited on Bynne hand and
foot, treated Red with difference and
ignored The two women, but so skill
fully they meyer perceived his scorn.
They had seven hours at Mukden.
Mukden, ugliest of ugly cities. balanc-
ing the most modern of roaring Jap
anese munitions plants against the
eloquent majesty of the neighboring
Manchu tombs that seem to whisper
amid their secular expresses. "A thou
sand years are but moment; this
moment will also pass"
Back in the town, having touched
Bynne successfully for substantial
advance, DID absented himself for
an anxious half hour but reappeared
at train time, a mysterious bundle
under his arm. During the long run
to the Chinese border he was in and
out of the party's compartments, fore
stalling all needs. Only one interest
was strong enough to defect his at
tention - his private and vicious
war on flies. He missed no chance
and never shot. Though flies were
rare, whenever he saw one settle. up
would 20 his back -scratcher, snap, and
the fly was mashed fiat.
The train rolled to stop at Chin
wangtao. Di-Di vanished. First ap-
peared the Japanese customs officers.
soon the Chinese. Bynne grumbled
surlily at Di-Di's absence but man.
aged without him. No sooner had the
train got well under way again than
DID reappeared. Thanks to the con-
tents of his mysterious bundle he was
decked in the full regalia of the model
Chinese servant - skull cap. white
Jacket, padded silk trousers bound
above the ankle, snow-white socks
and silent black shoes of cloth. But
Bynne scarcely noticed his return,
absorbed in game of his own.
Shake. Red, you handsome pup"
he was saying, laughter in his eyes.
IN give you the price of another
camera tomorrow - no matter cost
Their fingers locked and Red felt
his knuckles being crushed. His eyes
blurred but he didn't mind the pain
since it gave him measure of the
strength and driving vitality it takes
to build a name into legend. In
stantly snubs and outrage faded out
of memory. This man was his friend
as we'll as his chief and, by heaven,
he was ready to cross hell barefoot
for him! The startling discovery
brought smile to his lips and enough
power to his hand to give tit for tat.
Forget it, Major. Since the Hwang-
Ho is a dream for the present III fly
you north, east and west whenever
you're ready - mostly north"
Bynne's crinkled eyes sharpened.
"Who's been talking?" he asked.
Nobody" said Red. Cant you
uive NV r,oor brain anv credit at alp
Evening star., 1937-07-11
All Blood Is Red

an accusing vision. They did not see
Mrs. Bynne; they were looking at
girl with winged hair and brows and
winged soul. Then his thoughts banked
in midflight and went into tail-spin.
After all. what did he know about
Tracy Lloyd or any other woman?
What did he know about anything?
Morning. Peiping. Wall within
wall within wall At first refusing
revealment, baking the eye with the
high gray barrier of its outer rampant.
Bynne's party descended from the
train, sleepy-eyed, hearts crushed
with disappointment. Was this the
far-famed city of cities? They walked
along the sordid platform, climbed up
and down rickety wooden stairs and
picked their way through massive
arch. The motorbus. Streets greasy
with mud, thronged with every form
and con of the wheel. resonant with
clamorous cries, but gay with banners
and suddenly shot with glamor. The
ponderous hotel, entombing them
within cavernous rooms. To the
Bynnes were assigned corner sitting
room of overwhelming grandeur and
adjoining sleeping quarters. Opposite
we're the rooms allotted to Miss Lloyd,
Captain Aldyref and Aired Long in
the order named.
They separated to bathe and freshen
up. DID unpacked with deft fingers.
ordered flowers. tested the water in
the thermos bottles. banished bags as
fast as they we're emptied to alcoves
and storeroom, and otherwise hustled
the lowering coolies into frenzied
activity. Under his ministrations
Bynne was the first to emerge into the
sitting room. He sat in a great leathern
chair with a map spread on the floor
at his feet.
Tracy came in quietly and crossed
to one of the high western windows.
Below her, encased within miles of
pink wall. lay the golden sea of the
Forbidden City, and the sudden i'm
pact of its beauty shook her from head
to foot. Temple-tilted roofs, spaced,
superimposed. repeating innumerably
a single divine angle. lifted her heart
and choked her throat.
Mrs. Bynne. unperceived. came
into the room. Her glance swept from
Tracy to her husband and fingered,
measuring his absorption. An enig-
matte smile quirked the corners of her
mouth as she picked up book and
sat down with her back to him. DID
paused in his business to snap fly
and then went to tidy the bathroom.
Red came in, eager to travel farther
along the new road of friendship. but
was arrested by Bynne's intent pose.
Elbows locked against the arms of the
big chair, fists pressed against his
knees, he was crouched head down
over sheet of the British General
Staff map of China. But Red per-
ceived it wasn't the Hwang-Ho sec
tion - it was Mongolia, Outer Mon
golia! Aldyreff entered.
Di-Di appeared in the bathroom
door. Master" he called, you want
tiffin topside, or evlibody 60 below?"
Bynne paid no attention. Mrs.
Bynne looked up from her book.
Lancaster, didn't you hear? The
rest Of us may be hungry even if you
aren't
Still he did not answer. She rose
swiftly, went to his side and laid her
hand on his shoulder. As though a
trigger had been released he slumped
forward and sprawled face down on
the floor. He was dead.
10 d Ceatisvsd Next Wssk)
Evening star., 1937-07-11
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