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Evening star., 1937-01-28

EAR MISS DIX am IL
years old and the mother Of
three children-a son, 18
months. and twin daughters,
Evening star., 1937-01-28
BY BARBARA BELL.

|HE first hint Of Spring i5 bound
to bring on Q hankering for q
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27
HUNGRY HILL" NOW
''SPRTNGDALE LANE"
BUT HUNGER STAYS

AUSTIN, Tex, Nov-(Elaine Ellis
for CNA)-Hungry Hill is no more
The white people who live in the pros
porous valley at the foot OF this hill
are not hungry, and they told the CITY
Council SO. The council lent a willing
ear. It is true that Austin has its
quota OF unemployed, but to tolerate
the existence of such name as Hun
CRY Hill in the Friendly City" might
give people bad impression. So Hun
cry Hill was changed to Springdaie
Lane, and the well-off white residents
went home satisfied.
But Negro residents living on the
bare knob OF the hill are far from
prosperous. although they denied. to re-
porters, that they are hungry. But,
as Aunt Sallie 10" explained to a
sympathetic listener, you can't tell
those reporters you are hungry and
nave them say SO in the papers with
your name right by it. We people
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27
Harlem Fetes VIM. Patterson
Returned from Soviet Russia

NEW YORK. Nov.-CNA)-Out
standing Harlem figures, including a
number of noted Communists, attended
banquet here in honor of William L.
Patterson, Harlem leader and former
national secretary of the international
Labor Defense, who recently returned
IRON 3-year stay in the Soviet Union.
The banquet was held in the Scandi-
navlan Workers Hall, 2O6l Lexington
Avenue, with James w. Ford, Negro
Communist 1896 presidential can
didate, as POSTMASTER.
Among the speakers were Charles
Krumbein, State Secretary of the Com
munist Party of New York. the Rev.
David N. Licorish, chairman of the
Church Committee of the National
Negro Congress, Mrs. Alberta Postles.
Patterson's sister, George Blake, Or
ganizatlonal Secretary of the Harlem
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27
At Phyllis Wheatley

Every man has an opportunity to i'm
prove his golf game by attending ths
goli class held every Friday afternoon
al ESQ p. m. at Phyllis Wheatley. A
competent instructor who really knows
what the game is all about is there to
give instruction TO both beginners and
veterans. All one needs is one or two
clubs-if you don't have any clubs
come anyway-you can borrow enough
to begin.
The Gents Of the Round Table are
planning Christmas basket for some
needy family. Russell Waldron is the
president of this up and coming club.
Their dance, held November 10Th, was
one Of the best of the year.
The Cardinals are planning to put
one Of the best basketball teams ever
to come out Of Phyllis Wheatley into
the City League this year It will be
the first time a Negro team has ever
been i'll that type of competition.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27

day he told me to get the book,
new one to read = it was The Prod
igal Son. l said to him, Engdahl what
are you reading that for = you don't
believe in any such thing. He only.
laughed and made me go back over and
read those little stubborn places where
! hurried over the words, and read it
i right Engdahl gave his life for the
boys. | can say that because he never
had time to eat or sleep. He would go
to bed at five in the morning some
times and get up at six, writing ar
ticles, sending articles all over the
world about the Scottsboro boys. He
did everything.
His last words were: Don't let the
Scottsboro boys burn! Ada, don't give
up, don't weaken . make every ef-
fort you can, and double your strength,
to save the innocent Scottsboro boys
We have got to keep on working until
all the nine boys are free began
TO thing maybe | am foolish and crazy
to think about giving up. | began to
think, live or die, sink or swim, am
going to do everything in my power.
Engdahl was right, he said: Ada, you
have the whole working class working
for you, never give up.
Two of the Scottboro boys, Olin
Montgomery and Roy Wright, will ap-
pear in Minneapolis December IA. Mr..
Pat Patton is Chairman of the Commit
tee on arrangements.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27
BETHESDA NOTES

Sunday School, GAS A. M. Our Sun
day School is growing, we need more
teachers. The young girls class, under
Mrs. M. Washington leadership is
keeping pace with the times.
Morning worship at II A. M. Pas
tor w. E. Wadlirgton, preaching.
The B. Y. p U. will hold a Joint
service with the Christian Endeavoi
Ct ST. Peters A. NJ E. Church this
Sunday at ST. Peters Church.
The play to be given by the ladies OF
the Missionary is well on its way.
We are now entering into the holi-
Cay atmosphere. Many plans are be-
ing perfected.
We are sad in our hearts as we learn
Of the death of Sister Matte Lucas.
Miss Elnora Walker, sol Aldrich Ave.
North has been ailing the past week.
Mr.. George Washington, 619 Oak
Lake Avenue North is much improved
Mrs. DeSsa Peppers, 243o Fifth Ave.
SO. celebrated her birthday last week.
She was the recipient of many beauti
full gifts.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27
Minneapolis Social News

Mr.. Merrill L. Taylor of Junction
City, Kansas, was the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Kintchiow over the week end
Mr.. Robert Rinfroc, citizen of Min
neapCiis who has made his home fog
two years with Mr. and Mrs. N.
KintchloU-, 23l0 5th Ave So. has been
student OF the vocational high school.
He left Monday, November p for San
dusky, Ohio to make his home in the
future with his sister. His departure
is keenly felt and is very much regret
ted by his many friends.
Mr.. J. P. Curnes, 1910 9TH St. No.
was the lucky man = he won the tur-
key Monday night, Nov. p given away
by the Triangle Club of the S. M. T.
Lodge.
Mrs. K L. Smith, 2441 Fifth Ave.
So. was confined to her home a few
days with severe cold.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27
have got a little PRIDE"

have got little PRIDE"
1t was the wretched conditions of the
Negro people living on this hill that
is supposed to have given it the name
Legend has it that Negro father had
nothing to give his three little children
for food. So he asked permission
from a white farmer in the valley to
secure corn from the 1atthr's field.
Three times day, for breakfast, din
ner, and supper, he fed this corn,
parchcd, to his starving children.
During the worst days Of the depres-
sion, fully a score Of white unemployed
families moved to the top of the hill
and pitched their ragged tents under
which they huddled during the cold
days Of winter. They managed to keep
from freezing by hauling in brushwood
and burning it III buckets Or makeshift
stoves. One woman labored in child
birth for two days in one of these tents,
and the infant was born on the bare
ground. The women from those tents
told me about it some days later.
She was in awful misery" they said,
and we did not think the baby would
ever come. We called the county doc
tor, and he said he could not come. We
called him several times But (and
their eyes burned) we shall know next
time what to do
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27

thinking during this great occasion.
This means that there will be no
Sunday evening service at Border Sun
day, the 18th, but that our members
and friends are requested to meet us
at Zion Baptist Church. The following
Sunday evening, December S, there
will be evening services at Border at
which time lions congregation will be
at Border. Because of the revival our
monthly Communion will be admins
tered III the morning, during the wor-
ship hour. Come and help us VIII,
souls for Christ.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27

Communist Party Division, Helen Ho1-
man, Harlem woman leader, and Will
liam Fitzgerald, former head of the
Harlem I. L. D.
Responding to the eulogies of the
various speakers, Patterson commented
en- the great achievements made by the
Communists and other progressives in
the past three years i'll building a Peo-
pies Front in this country, in uniting
white and Negro worker, in rallyine
the forces of progress against fascist
reaction.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27
BORDER BRIEFS

An appreciative congregation was on
hand last Sunday to participate in
the worship and to hear Rev. D. P
Young, pastor, III his Thanksgiving
message. Rev John Meyers, acting
associate pastor, preached in the even
ing while Rev. Young preached in
Willmar, Mimi, where a fine congre-
cation of wl,..te Methodists heard him
gladly.
The Nortisidc Union Thanksgiving
service was success. liev. T. X Lon
don, pastor Of WIayn;an 4. Me. church,
delivered a great message, Rev. H. w.
Bolts, pastor CT Zion Baptist church,
was gracious in his presiding, fervent
and persuasive in his appeal to The
I'M Churched, and the congregation
was quite attentive and responsive.
Rev. d. P, Young, host-pastor, gave tbs
Invocation, made the appeal for the
Filal2ks Offering, and later formally
presented Elders P. L. Lockette and
Drain Of the Power House Church OF
God in Christ.
Next Sunday morning the pastor,
Rev. D. P. Young, will discuss the SER
mon theme: After Thanksgiving Day,
What" This promises to be a great
spiritual message, filled with inforna-
ton, inspiration, power, and challenge
that all should hear. In the evening
at eight o'clock the Great Union Evan
gelistic Campaign, sponsored by the
Zion Baptist and the Border Methodist
churches, will be launched at the ZION
church, 18th and Lyndale Avenues, No,
Rev. Jay B. Dickens, a National Bap-
fist evangelist from EIdorado. Kan.
viii be the preacher A special Cos
pei chorus, composed Of talent from the
choirs OF the cooperating churches will
furnish the music. The cooperating
pastors expect this to be a great spir
itual feast and heart-warn1ing adven-
ture to which the general public is
cordially invited. Rev. Dickens is a
dynamic preacher CT burning messages.
Once you have heard him there is
every reason to believe that you will
want to attend every evening, there
after. His list of sermon themes rep
resent series that have hardly been
heard IN this city before. We fully
believe that a great preacher has been
engaged to lead us in our religious
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27
"NEVER GIVE UP"

"Engdahl put up wonderful fight
for the boys and he taught me a lot.
He used to ask me to read to him. One
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27

Proposed location Of locks
which would carry river traffic
over st. Anthony Falls and into
En- adequate harbor is shown in
this map, prepared by the WPA
city planning survey. Where
present barge terminal facilities
are limited to a small area at
the Warrington avenue bridge,
adaptable mainly to package
freight, the new harbor, if made
available, would open TIP acres
of industrial land and 7.e7 mile
of waterfront to development.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27

Advocates believe the city will
not benefit fully from the nine
foot channel until harbor facili-
ties are made readily available
to territory above the falls,
where important industries al
ready are situated, and where
there is ample room for new
ones. Statistics show 372 per
cent Of commodities received
and forwarded in Minneapolis
are handled in the north river
area, $40 per cent within four
blocks of the river.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27
Miss w. Gertrude
Brown
Continued from page one

PaSC
~ightsous cause, She viii find us always
wiling to give her every possible help
Should she become surrounded by the
barnacles for which our city is fast be-
coming noted, she will find us, not
lighting the individual, but the prin-
cirle.
We take no responsibility for where
the chips fall
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27
Scottboro Boys Pay
Tribute to Engdahl

J. Louis Engdahl, Minneapolis man
who passed on November Il, 1882,
while touring in behalf of the Scott
boro Boys, was paid tribute in Mad
ison Square Garden last Saturday.
Mother Wright, Roy Wright, and
Glen Montgomery sat before crowd
Of 10000, as living testimony of the
activities of the l. L. d. in their be-
half
when he died, Engdahl's last mes
sage to other defenders was that they
must keep up where he left off," said
Ohn Montgomery.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-11-27

THE HOUSING PROJECT is AN ORPHAN
Probably the issue conrons Negroes of Minneapolis
today is the housing project the north side.
As group have representatives the housing committee
w. Gertrude Brown prior her departure from Minneapolis,
the housing Committee there
selected fill her We take this opportunity suggest that
Negroes the selection of fill her place. We would further
that important this issue we look far afed before take
the old failures responsibility
plenty capable people, this community would
this successful conclusion We suggest
entirely partisan except such failures attempt
other bigger and better disasters.
that vanted race patriotism which
used for the unhnkng demonstrated by
i'll prepared Let them pocket their pride long enough somebody
else get in there who can hit the ball.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
NOTE-No unsigned commu-
nications are published by The
Times-News. All letters must be
signed with the real name of
the author. No communications
signed with a fictitious name
will be published.-EDITOR
Editor, The Times-News

Editor, The Times-News:
Please don't take me to be an
arguer.
My conviction is that a con-
tinuous quawelling argu"r is Il
fool. But my conviction also is
that calling the president Of the
United States Il liar or any slang,
vile names is n shame and dis
grace to every mar. woman and
child in the United States.
The president has not lied. He
has planned, like every other in
tclligcnt man has done, to do
things and when he saw he could
not or it was the best not to be
done, he changed his mind. Ii
these little fellows had lived in
Abraham Liucoln's or Teddy
Rooscvclt's time, they would not
have called the president 4 liar,
II they had they would have gone
to jail,
The Charleston News and Cou-
ricr n few days AGO abused the
president for the unemployed no,
getting less. Please look around
you. all you editors and writer's,
The president is not to blame fo'
what the white collars DO IL
Charleston or Hcndc"onvi.,c.
Congress passed an nc, to help
the needy. then the secretaries q.
the departments began to find oUJ
how many there were. The whit
collars had charge Of the town.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
ROOSEVELT A NICKNAME?

If Hendrix Van Loon, writing in the Redbook
magazine, is right, member of the Geldersman
family is in the White House Roosevelt, he says,
is a bij-naam or nickname, for branch OF that
Dutch family. a,.
The archives of the city of Tholen of the year
1900 disclose that there lived in Oud Voseemeer
one "Pieter op het Roosevelt" or "as we would say
Peter the son of George who lived on the rose
farm"
The rose being more or less of novelty in the
Low countries 400 years ago. "the occupant of
this farm may have had a couple of rose bushes
in his front yard, and this may have attracted so
much attention that people referred to this place
as the Rose farm or Roosevelt"
Be these things as they may, the Roosevets have
been living on this continent matter Of eight or
nine generations and whether Roosevelt be a sort
of nickname or not, it is the accepted surname of
the family which has supplied the United States
with two prcsidents-The Charleston News and
Courier. - r----.' ' " 4 -'--'-'''-' ~
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
ONE YARD EQUALS 27 INCHES

In order TO lay the bitter complaint that federal
yard stick power plants operate on about 81
inch measure the president has fixed the interest
rates which they must pay at 3la co, the period of
amortization of their capital debts at 40 years.
This is fair enough. Private power manufacturers
can borrow money at 81 &c and take 40 years to
pay it back, if they choose. But wait minute.
Most of the federal power projects like Bonnie
vile and IVA. began either as flood control prof.
ects exclusively or chiefly as flood control plus
navigation plus irrigation projects, with power pro-
duction as an ostenSible afterthought. Hence, in
order to determine what part of their cost IS to
be charged against power production, it will be
necessary to determine first how much is to be
charged off for flood control navigation and irri-
CATION classic example of how the government
goes about this is available.
Of Twas ultimate cost of 100000, it ap-
pears that $3.50 900 900 will be put down to navi-
CATION and flood control Army engineers report
ed, however, that navigability of the Tennessee
could have been assured by building low-head dams
instead of great hydroeectric DAMS at cost Of
SIS 100000. This would have left $255,OOOOOO
for flood control; and the same engineers also
estimated that the average annual loss from floods
on the Tennessee was less than a million dollars.
That's the catch. Obviously if the government
is going to charge up to flood control $50 times
the average annual flood loss, and to navigation
the extra cost Of hydroelectric dams, the remain
der chargeable to power production will be by so
much reduced and the notorious yard stick" left
still a good bit less than SO inches.-Charlotte
News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS.
AN ACCOUNTABLE TAX

The country has now had years experience
with the tax on undistributed profits and expert
ence with it has been such that ought to convince
both the treasury officials and congress of its I'M
wisdom and impracticaty
The tax has failed to do what was anticipated
in the way of enriching the federal revenues
That's one of the positive lessons to be learned
from the facts of the case.
Another and more important is that the tax is
hamstringng business and industry and operating
to the stagnation of both.
1t is taking profits from operation which should
be reserved for plant expansion and improvements
and putting them in the hands of the government
to be spent largely for non-creative services.
Business needs these financial reserves not mere
ly for sef-fnancing of its legitimate projects of
enlargement and Improvement, but they are also
important, if not indispensable, to serve as nest
egg for future inclement business weather
Where would the country have been during the
long period of the depression had not these capital
reserves of American business been available for
use by firms and corporations in order to remain
in operation in the face of the adversites and
non-proftable trade of that period?
While the federal government was dumping its
several billions of dollars into the social and
nomic body of the nation in depression days in or
der to prevent starvation and to forestall the ut
ter collapse of the economic enterprise of the peo
pie, private capital was spending more than $2O,
OOO 900, 900 on its own account for precisely the
same good ends,
And this enormous expenditure which was being
privately spent at that time for the same purpose
as that of the federal government came not from
borrowings, as did the federal funds but it came
from the accumulated profits which wise business
leaders and sagacious industrial management had
piled up largely in anticipation of such rainy
weather.
The aruments against the tax impressive
and unanswerable that it seems to that treasury
officials should not hesitate to advise its abandon
ment and congress should repeal it without batting
an eye.-Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
REVIVING A CORPSE

The country must be obliged to Dr. c. S. CARR
son, president of George Peabody college, for the
decent burial of capitalism which he accorded this
traditional system in his speech before recent
teachers meeting in Charlotte. After insisting
that it was dead he exhorted his hearers to take
their places among those who will rebuild the eco
nomic order.
We were almost minded to agree with the doc
tor looking around us at the counts made over
captalisms recumbent form, the great amount OF
burdens heapen on it in the forms of new taxation
and regulations, the seedlings given the economic
royalists' and the like. Indeed, if 1t hadn't passed
out, it was glutton for punishment. We were
about, we say, to congratulate DR.. Garrison on an
early post-portem when there was found farther
down in his speech concern for a practical edu-
cation system which would enable youth to lay
hold of their opportunities at home and exploit the
overwhelming blessings of nature.
Exploitation of our resources would seem to I'M
ply capitalstic influence. For whom would a
practically" trained youth work except for him.
self or some other capitalist? Mind you, we are
not accusing the college president of inconsistency
but there does grow out of his remarks a proba-
bility that the corpse may be revved.-Charlotte
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behind the times and was opposed
to catching up. The inmates were
being treated in ways which were
harmful to them and inhWmanc.
The entire outfit was shot full
Of petty politics.
Golfer set about it Immediate
ly to get things improved. lie met
strong, rescntful opposition from
the other members Of the board
and from the superintendent. Col
ter was shown plainly that his
ideas were not wanted and that
if he couldn't keep his trap shut
and let the old vehicle rumble
along in the same old way, the
sooner he handed in his rcsigna-
ton the better the rest of the
board would be pleased.
After being pointedly snubbed
for six months, Golfer was so dis
couraged he wished to quit.
THAT is exactly what they are
trying to make you do" comment
ed a friend to whom Golfer con-
fided his trouble. "Stick TO your
guns, and rattle the dry bones
until you shake some life into
them"
So Golfer held doGgcdly to his
course; and today he is seeing
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THE NEW y EAL
IN WESH1N GTON
-sT RODNEY BUTCHER.
By RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

WASHlNGTON-ThiS is an
" other Of those scrCwy Pc
RODS in New Deal history when
punditS solamnly ask each other
and their readers whether Roose-
Welt is going Ito 20 to the right
Or to the left"
When this question is raised, all
veteran observers who are capable
of learning by experience auto
matically lean back and predict
with yawn that subsequent wig
elingS of the administration will
veer toward the port rather than
The Starboard side.
Nevertheless, the degree of
pressure from the so called
right probably is heavier to the
square inch than at any previous
time. 1t reached unprecedented
strength just before the PreSi-
dents Federal Reserve dedication
speech. But Roosevelt ignored
desperate COllSSl dN.SS PASdS W
give business various reaSSur-
anceS.
Lately the Federal Reserve
Boards reduction of stock market
margin requirements from SIS to
40 per cent has been widely in
terpreted as an administration
concession to Wall Street. 1t was.
But the only reason for it was the
fact that Roosevelt and Chairman
Eccles were especially anxious to
impose new so per cent margin
requirement on short sales and
made the reduction just to make
it appear that they were doing
more than kicking Wall Street in
the face. Net effect was a sock
at Roosevelt's real or fancied foes
in Wall Street.
Roosevelt intimates who have
seen him lately agree on two
points: ..s ,