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The Washington times., 1938-11-07
USES EXPLAINED

These old rags and papers must
be good for something, or these
men could not afford to search for
them day after day. Let's try to
discover what really happens to
these things.
First of all the cotton and linen
rags are made into nice white
paper. The old wooden rags are
put into special machines, which
tear them into shredS and then
those shreds are mixed with new
wool and spun into cloth again.
The wool shreds, not suitable,
are ground very fine and the pow
der thus produced is dyed different
The Washington times., 1938-11-07
News Behind the News
-Bu Paul MdllOn

All Rights Reserved
Fuuor in Part city
The Washington times., 1938-11-07
C. o. P. FolIoWs

TNHIS decentralization tie h.
l. nique was necessary Gin &C.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-06-15
FOOD STORE TO CLOSE EDEE SDAY
AFTERNOONS DURING SUIMER

The Food Store will close at / Pm.
each Wednesday until the end Of August,
in line wi tn recon- endations made by
the Food Store Comm tt tee at q public
meeting of the Cooperative Organizing
Cormi ttee on Tuesday, June 7.
The Comm tee chat r1an stated that
the store employees ere now off one
half day each week; each employee TAX
ing off at different time, and the
Wednesday c1osings would make it pos
sible for all the employees to be on
duty at oil other times during the
week.
The store Will remain open tonight
until 700 to cash cove rnnent checks.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-06-15
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The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17
EDITORIALS
THE WRONG WAY

Some of President RooseveltS crl-
tics make a lot of noise about the
strong support Negroes gave him IN
past elections and credit that support
to relief checks entirely. OF course re-
lief do count heavily, whether given to
farmers, Negroes or whites who hap
pen to be stranded and are forced on
relief. Right or wrong, the receipt OF
these checks are credited to Roosevelt
and they like him for it.
But these people overlook some OF
the good things President Roosevelt
has done for Negroes and a good
MANY like him for that-even the intel
ligent Negro.
Recently a Negro teacher was add
ed to the teaching force in New Koch
ellie. New York, something that had
never happened before. Mrs. Roose-
letter congratulating it upon appoint
ment. While Mrs. Roosevelt had moth
ing to do with placing this teacher, the
fact that she was broadminded enough
to say publicly that she approved the
action is bound to raise Roosevelt
in the estimation of the Negroes.
Jabbing at the Roosevelts for dong
big things for the Negro gets his crl-
tics nothing. The Negro is human ana
will be forever sticking with the fellow
who helps him. On the other hand, II
the opponents of the Roosevelts hope
to make any substantial progress to-
ward winning back their Negro sup
porters they must be willing and act
uallv do some of these fine things
toe.
The old adage that talk is cheap,
but il takes money to buy land" holds
good here. Negroes want less talk n
more performances from those who
expect them, to support their cause.
The Bystander-
The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17
THE SCHOOLS NEED THE
PARENTS

Now that the children have
returned to school, there should be no
illusions about the parents duties and
interests if teachers are to get the
best result under the circumstances.
AS parents, most Of us are intelli-
gent enough now to take a genuine in
terest in what it takes to get the most
out of school for our children. But in
order to get the best out of school, We
must put this interest in. Becoming in
terested in ones thild's welfare de-
ponds largely upon u attitude toward
the family.
If children are really wanted, real
ly loved, then interest in their welfare
in any direction is not hard. Taking
that interest is a great substitute for
law and prison which sometimes comes
into children's lives later because a low
ing interest was not there in the be-
ginning.
Let's see that children are we'll
groomed, we'll clothed and well fed be-
fore leaving home. These details, pro-
perly attended to, are great personality
builders.
Let us join the Parent-Teacher
Association. Maybe we will learn some
thing ourselves which we badly need
to know. Maybe we will find out that
Johnny is not the sweet little angel we
thought he was and that he needs TAX
ing in hand.
The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17

the fact that Negro lawyers have beer
systematically excluded from the fed
eral judiciary, except in the Virgin Is
lands where a limited %judgeshlp exists.
The resolution also called attention to
the fact that there are now no vacanc-
les on the District if Columbia bench
and that in the federal controlled city
whose population is 20 percent colored
there is no representation of the color
ed citizenry in the Police Courts OF
Washington, and ended by going on
record as being unanimously in favor
of the appointment of Negro lawyers
to some of the vacancies now existing
in the federal system. 1t was also re-
solved that a committee of seven be ap-
pointed to call on President Roosevelt
to discuss this matter with him.
While to many laymen, the ques-
ton of appointing Negro judges to the
federal judiciary may not seem i'm
portant, to the more Thoughtful obser-
r it is really %squaring in practice
the theories of democracy, n OF the
tenents, which is all groups shall have
representation in the government. Toe
LONG has the argument been advanced
that the Negro is not yet qualified to
exercise the full rights of citizenship,
and the records of Negro judges in
the state courts of New York, Illinois,
and Pennsylvania have proved that the
Negro lawyer is just as well qualified
as the lawyers of other racial groups
The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17
BUY RS

Within the past few years, mary of
the alert and more progressive COM
panies have discovered that there is a
real financial field in the Negro mar
ket, and they are giving it serious
study.
Many of these companies that are
seeking Colored patronage, are adver-
Using their products in the Negro
press, and are employing Colored re-
representatives. to promote the sale of
their products in this market.
The amount of advertising these
companies spend in the Negro press,
and the number of Colored employees
on their ~payrolls, depends solely upon
how we'll you and support our W
newspapers, and their advertised pro-
The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17
Promoting Fire Prevention Advertis-
ing

The National Board of Fire I'm
derWriters has for some time carried
on an advertising campaign in magaz-
ines of National circulation, designed
to help the cause of fire control and
fire prevention. Now it is readapting
these advertisements so that they
may be inserted by local agents as
paid advertising in their home town
newspapers.
Each national advertisement is to be
redraWn and made available in three
column, ten inch mat form. Space is
left at the bottom for the agents name
and address. The mats will be sent
free to any agent or local insurance
board on application to the Public Re
lations Bureau of the National Board
IS John Street, New York City.
This marks a worthwhile innova-
ion in the fight against fire. Adver-
tisements of this kind sponsored by To-
cal agents, will be an important factor
in the selling of insurance coverage.
And, more important, if used in thous-
ands of local newspapers, they will
bring to millions of people wildly il
Illustrated facts that will awaken them
to the menace of Americas disgrace
full fire loss-and how it may be reduc-
ed by systematic cooperative and in
dividual effort.
In about a month Fire Prevention
Week will be observed, and will run
from October 9 to Is. During this
time, every person in this country
should have the dread word fire
brought to his notice on every possible
occasion-over the radio, in his news
paper, and through advertisements. An
alert public consciousness and nothing
else can prevent fire.
The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17
by Clarence H. Peacock

to this market. The Hiram Walker
Company has appointed a Colored re-
preventative, and they are planning an
~extentive advertising and promotional
campaign for the Negro market. Also
the Calvert Corporation has added an
other Colored representative to its
staff. MI. Jesse Owens, famous Oylm-
pic Champion, will promote sales for
this company in Ohio.
When Colored consumers in other
sections throughout the country, give
their full support to the advertised
products in their own papers, they too,
will open up new employment oppor-
t~unities for the race in their communi-
ties.
The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17

mount OF relief is totally Inadequate
Tor food, clothing and shelter-to saw
nothing OF an extra dollar for med
zeal service.
Medical care must be brought
within the reach of the ill-clad, i'll
housed, i'll clothed third of the nation
within the reach of the lowest in
come American. President Roose-
velt's Health Conference in Washing
ton was a significant step in the right
direction.
Good health is no longer a narrow
individual concern. Labor and pro-
gessives must fight for Federal and
state health insurance systems just as
they do for wage-hour legislation, col
lective bargaining, civil liberties and
other vital needs of the American peo-
pie.
The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17
COL. SINGLETON

The death of Col. William Henry
ingleton, 1O3 year old veteran of the
Grand Army of the Republic, recalls
the heroic role Of the Negro people in
the Civil War.
Singularly enough, he died in Des
Moines, Iowa, Friday, just after par
ticipating in a G. A. R. parade.
Col. Singleton was a human sym
boil of the great part the Negro people
played in freeing themselves from
chattel slavery and in preserving the
Union for democracy and progress I'M
der the banner of Lincoln.
Col. Singleton's W brave con-
tribution to the cause of freedom Will
live ever among the glorious deeds OF
American history. He and hundreds
of other Negro slaves were forced into
the army of the C~onfederates to fight
against his own liberty. Risking
death, he escaped and volunteered with
the Union Army. He made such an
excellent record as a soldier that Pres
ident Lincoln commissioned him as a
colonel. At the funeral of Lincoln, he
commanded a Negro regiment.
In addition, the Negro people as a
whole gave richly to the victory of
democracy. More than 10000 Negro
soldiers served in the Union Armies
during the Civil War. They compris-
The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17

into the Colored market. Both these
companies advertise their products ii
the Colored newspapers, and the Cal
vert Corporation has appointed Mr.. +.
Simpson as their National Negro Re-
preventative.
In a recent survey of the liquor
stores, bars and grills in Harlem, it
was found that the best sellers were
those bands that advertised in the CO.
lored newspapers. This shows that the
people in Harlem have awakened to the
fact that they must support their own
newspapers, and buy only their adj
vertised products, if they are to create
new employment for the race.
Since the appearance of my first
article in Liquor, Wines and Beer"
another liquor company has come IN
The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17
GOOD HEALTH FOR THE PEOPLE

The Public Health Service in
Washington has reported that there
are at least $4,000 unemployed per-
sons who are incapacitated because of
illness. This means that even if these
workers were beneficiaries of some
miraculous piece of luck and were Of
fered jobs, they would be unable to ac-
cept them.
The main cause of this frightful
situation is the miserable starvation
relief standards. In most cities, the a.
The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17
vi
duets.

In a recent article, this column
pointed out that the colored people IN
this country were spending over $780,
100000 a year for liquor, wine and
beer, and that the Colored race was
not getting the full benefit of this huge
purchasing power. They were buying
brands of those companies who made
no special appeal for Colored patron
age.
Some years ago, a survey was
made of the liquor stores, bars and
grills in Harlem. 1t was found that
certain brands, such as Royal Box Gin,
Gold Cup Whiskey, and White Horse
Scotch were the best sellers. Since that
time the Schenley Products Company,
and the Calvert Corporation have come
The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17

ed Some I61 regiments and approx
mately 10000 gave their lives.
Not only did the Negro participate
as soldiers for democracy, but during
the brief Reconstruction period when
they had the ballot and could hold
public office, their statesmanlike tai
ents were manifest in the adoption of
the public school system and other pro-
gressive measures in the South.
Just as the fight against Negro
slavery was essential for democracy in
1866, SO is the fight for Negro rights
essential to democracy and progress
for the whole American people today.
The Omaha guide., 1938-09-17
~JUDGESHIPS
(from The New York Age

AT a recent convention of the Ma
tional Bar Association in the City OF
Durham, N. c., a resolution was I'M
a~nimously adopted calling attention to
Evening star., 1938-03-20

"camel paid the
highest prices to get
the best Of my last |.
CROP" says Edward
Estes, capable young
nlanter. Il know to-
) nv cigarette is Camel; /;
for most planters too'
Evening star., 1938-03-20

DEEP UNDER THE RIVER mike STEPS INTO
THE hhAN-LOck. HERE THE AIR PRESSURE
MOUNTS TO THE CRUSHING WEIGHT OF
as POUNDS PER SQUARE INcH-THE
TEMPERATURE CLOSE TO 100: THEN---
Evening star., 1938-03-20

"When the best leaf
;s auctioned of, Camel
i, Usually gets it," says
Vau1t Snowden, an
. other Camel smoking
o,.n+er "This year, ,
It all my choice grace, !;
4 camels for 10 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-26
News Behind the News
- Americans In Snain

Observation-Disclosures the State Depart
ment doesn't grant passports to Spain, couple
of thousand Americans have Contrived TO get
into that country to bear arms for the spanish
republican government.
About 1900 Americans are members OF the
Abraham Lincoln brigade and about 1900 others
are aiding the Spanish government in medleal
trucking tractor and other services. More than
$50 American lighters have been killed in the
past year and perhaps twice as many wounded
Occasionally a senator barks about the ae-
uvites of these volunteers Recent dispatches
show their battalion is being used in the Loyal
st effort to hold Teruel against the Franco
forces.
There is nothing the State Department can
do about this situation except deplore the fact
that so many Americans are so un-neutral, ana
perhaps watch passports more carefully.
Curiousity naturally arises to who the
Americans are. One of them, it can be said.
is Hans Anlie, brother of Congressman Thomas
r. Amlie of Wisconsin.
Hans has just returned after nearly year
with the International Brigade. He was COM
mander of the Lincoln battalion at the lmpor-
tant battles Of Quinto and Belchite and has
been wounded twice Recently he was married
TO Miss NIillie Bennett well known American
newspaperwoman at brigade headquarters in
Albacete.
David McKelyy White son of a former Ohio
governor and himself former English profess
sor, a machine gunner in Spain. He has
returned to edit a magazine to promote the
Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade"
Robert Merrlman of Reno, former economics
instructor at a California university, is the Bri
gade's chiefof staff.
Philip Detro a Roosevelt Democrat from Tex
as, Is now commanding officer of the battalion.
He had been in Germany and Japan and came
to hate fascism.
Harry Hines of New York former editor of
the National Maritime Unions publication, The
Pilot was killed in action. Also killed was Sam
Levinger, son of a prominent Cincinnati rabbi.
So was another friend of Amlie's, the son OF
former Los Angeles mayor.
Amlie thinks the intellectual level of the
American battalion is higher than that of any
military group ever assembled. 1t includes law
yers editors, writers, professors, poets and many
college graduates.
About 25 per cent OF the American troops are
Communists and they make good fighters, says
Amle, who doesn't like Communism. He voted
once for Hoover and once for Roosevelt. ATnlie
insists there's little Communism in Spain.
The republican forces will win the war un-
less Germany and Italy strengthen their forces
by hundreds of thousands of more troops, Ame
thinks. He has some thrilling stories of Ameri-
can heroism in vital battles and will be telling
them over the country in effort to raise
funds for the rehabilitation of members of the
Lincoln battalion who have been partially or
totally disabled
Modern bullets now make a clean flesh
wound or else they kill you,' Amlie reports
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-26
Auction Philosophy
BY ID. J.. ZINN

Folks, Saturday is President
Roosevelt's birthday. That is the
day you donate your money to help
cure infantile paralysis. Part of
the money stays here, the rest goes
to the Warm Springs foundation,
The President has allowed his
name to be used in this great
cause. If you want to dance Sat
urday night and help out the
cause, go to the Farm Recreation
Council dance at Imperial, or you
can buy 10 cent buttons from the
Boy Scouts, and if you don't want
to do either you can mail in your
donation to DR.. Warren Fox who
is chairman of the infantile par
alysis drive this year OF Imperial
county. These birthday parties
have done wonderful lot of good
for infantile paralysis victims in
this county. They have bought
braces, sent 'em to the Orthopedic
hospital. Your money is well spent
know because 1 was chairman
two years ago. Langston Goree
was chairman last year. Ask him
Folks, 1 don't think I could do
anything better than dedicate this
column today to this great cause.
If you can't do anything else, buy
o button.
Who knows, one near and dear
to you might be the next one!
III be seein you.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-26

Ing OlIlCeS IlnQO. y. Mcintyre
it difficult to flush out a complete
bill. Even the Palace corner is de-
serted by "lay-offs." The only
vaudeville spots are at the Roxy
and Loew's State and then only
for top skits.
The plight is worse for the dumb
acts - acrobats, cyclists, jugglers,
wire and rope walkers. They had
10 recourse. as had many others,
to small bit roles on the radio and
screen. About all they could do was
to find odd jobs such as dish wash
ing.
The majority of headliners are in
Hollywood, and while some have
done all right there are not many
who have caught the brass ring
in the manner of Jack Benny, the
once two-a-dayer. The future is
indeed bleak. Even though vaude-
vile comes back, it will have to
have new crop of artists.
Vaudeville died Of sameness. No
one changed his act Such skits as
Victor Moore and Emma Little
fields were precisely the same for
20 years. Not single change in
line or gesture. Eva Tanguay,
high priestess of the box office
with plenty OF umph. sang her 81
Don't Care" SO long that when she
appeared often the entire audience
| would Join in every verse and
chorus. The astonishing thing is
that patrons stood for such repe-
tition so long.
Save for the late Don Marquis,
| Mark Hellinger is about the only
cOlumnist to quit the game of his
own accord He accepted a story
editorShip in Hollywood Hellinger
in his valedictory shed no tears for
the Broadway he was leaving. He
declared he paid right back into
the street what revenues he ac-
quired for glorifying it and didn't
owe it a penny. The fact is Broad
way owes the gossip type of col
umnists lot They have continued
to beglamour it long after only
the dead shell remained.
Rex Beach has almost complete
ly deserted New York for his agri
cultural experimentation near Sc
bring, Fla. He comes to town now
and then at insistence of editors
who try to pry short article or
story out of him between celery
crops. But so interested has he be-
come in his new work that writing
nes become increasingly arduous
Yet habit is strong and he con-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-26

tinues to go 70 his typewriter
couple Of hours a day.
Another writer from whom it is
difficult to coax stories is Joseph
Hergesheimer. Most editorial rooms
welcome his output, but he, too
has become a country gentleman
on expansive acres near Philadel-
phia. More than any other writing
fellow. he lives the elegant life Of
the English landed gentry. The
young squire in Tory Hall and all
that, even to driving to the Will
age for the morning post in a dog
cart behind a spirited cob. His
vision IS thoroughly aristocraric
and his house a treasure troVe Of
rare art objects. Also his tweedy
riding costumes are just dandy for
the descriptive pen of Beaunash.
Nothing much is said about the
superiority complex but it exists
and I am completely aWed by it.
Hergesheimer crystallizes the idea.
Although frankly he does not af-
feet me pronouncedly A better ex-
ample is Augustus John. the Eng
lish painter to whom I was intro
duced by Frazier Hunt in London
He is as bright with legend as is
his shiny beard. One of those
booming voiced, towering figures
with doubly magnificent brows and
the majesty of a Michaelangelo In
such presences my voice, ordin-
arily deep and resonant goes into
the upper register of a Vienna
choir boy. All my thoughts rico
chet in a pin-wheel furry. I re-
member that one Of my asinine
questions was to pip-squeak where
he bought his gaudy smock. There
were other idlocies just as marked
and the more he gazed at me in
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-26
The Citizenship
Oh Harry BRIDGES

In Washington they're still trying to
find out if Harry Bridges. the west
coast labor organizer who's been called
everything from an annihiliSt to a Com
munist, is or is not citizen of the Unit
ed States.
Harry Bridges citizenship bids fair to
equal Tom Moneys Imprisonment as
a subject for marathon-distance argu-
ment.
The thing has got everybody so mixed
up now that we don't know whether Har-
ry Bridges was born in Australia, Cali
fornia or Russia. We do know only
that some people think he shouldn't
have been born. The ones who like Harry
Bridges think it's the others who should
MT have been born-and sometimes do
their utmost to remedy the mistake.
Frankly, we do not pretend to know
whether Harry Bridges was born in Aus
tralia or Timbuctoo We do not know
whether he is a citizen of the United
States or a sheep going around in
wolf 's-hair overcoat. We do not like
his labor policies, and the chances are
he wouldn't approve of our own opinions
But we would like to know about his
citizenship, and we imagine 1t would
save reams of official reports and thou
sands of words of unofficial arguments
if someone with duly constituted author
ity would find out. 1t shouldn't be
difficult thing for the proper authori-
tres to find if Harry Bridges is a citi-
zen Of the United States
If he isn't, he should be deported. If
he is, well-tl1e good old United States
has outlived lot worse things.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-26
The Grab Baq
One-Minute Test

ont-NiHutt ltSL
/. Who is the new u. S. ambas-
sador to Great Britain?
2. From what nation did the
United States acquire the Virgin
islands?
9. Who led the Indians against
General Custer in the famous bat
tie of Little Big Horn?
Hints on Etiquette
When writing to young boy, it
is correct to use the title Master
on the envelope.
Words of Wisdom
Prejudice is the child of igno-
rance. -Hazlitt.
TOday's Horoscope
Many persons whose birthday oc-
ours today have much native
shrewdness. They are known for
their powers of application.
One-Minute Test Answers
/. Joseph p. Kennedy, former
ly chairman of the u. S. maritime
commission. He succeeds Ambas-
sador Robert w. Bingham. who
died recently.
2. Denmark.
3. Chief Sitting Bull.