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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-04-01
FILED
AGAINST TATUM
MOTHERS CLUB
FILES COMPLAINT
100 Parent Signatures
Petition for Removal
Cites Moral Turpi-
tude and Mistreat-
ment of Teachers
And Pupils
100 Parent Signatures

GARY, Ind. - Tuesday Of this
week the Mothers Club, composed of
mothers Of lupils In Roosevelt and
Pulaski schools, filed formal COM
plant against Theo. Tatum, princi-
pal Of Roosevelt School, asking the
Board of Education to dismiss him
as such principal. When asked what
the charges filed in the complaint
consisted Of, the officers of the club
answered, Everything but insu-
bordination. This was the charge
Tatum recently made aginst Coach
Lane, which charges were to have
been heard on March %, but were
oost. oned because of the death Of
Superintendent Writ.
Tatum is charged in the comaaint,
a receipt for which was demanded
from school officials by the club and
was obtained, included moral tui pi-
tude, improper treatment Of both pu-
pills and teachers, and q number Of
other perhaps less important cha ges.
rhe fact that so many parents of
one school signed such charges, and
show such determined attitude in
plaia.y that Tatum has at last met
up with an insistent demand that he
swallow some Of his own medicine.
This newspaper has long disap-
proved of his high-handed and ar
bitary manner, and has had in hand
for some time statements of the par
ents accusing Tatum of serious ir-
regularities, but felt that the char
ges should be filed in legal way,
and that Tatum be given his day in
court to disprove them il he could
do so.
On number of previous occasions
informal complaints have been made
against Tatum to the late Superin-
tendent, but no action was ever TAX
en-, SO the parents decided to take
formal action this time. During the
last campaign, Tatum was accused Of
number of occasions Of trying to
influence both pupils and parents
and teachers against President Roo
sevelt and for Landon, but in the
present instance there are no poll
tical charges made, and the signers
to the petition for his removal do
not seem to come from any political
source, and no one involved in poll
tics are permitted to sign.
Officials of the Mothers Club re-
fused to state whom their witnesses
would be or what they would testify
to, but simply showed copy of the
formal complaint. and the receipt
from clerk of the board.
1t is understood that if the School
Board decides to remove Coach Lane,
that letters of recommendation sign
ed by very great number Of par
ents will be forwarded to all officials
Of any city to which he may go. The
American has no desire to PREJUDICE
the Tatum case. but in spite of the
fact that it is early for Mothers Day,
we may be pardoned for saying,
.sThank God for the Mothers"
GARY AMERICAN.
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old liar for he was with a woman
can't stand him so tell me any thing
You want to?
Ans:-Weli, madam s. some men
are like that. He's not satisfied a.
things stand now, and neither are
you. Perhaps it would be best il
q temporary separation was Arrang-
I'd. After all you aren't legal
married.
NJ M s.. Am anxious to know II
/ will be able to complete the course
N Beauty Culture and get di-
pioma2
Ans:-You possess the necessary
qualifications to Aget your diploma
although you must keep you
mind on your work and not on the
two fellows that you are going with,
lish Ithis course bsfore you do
lry.h,ng and when you get estab-
sished .. make your choice between
the two fellows.
HB.C DO you thisk will have
i chance 10 sing or the radio and if
do, do you think could make
ood?
Ans:-The best thing for you to
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BiIbo Sends
Congressman
Race Purity" Booklet

WASHINGTON Senator Theo-
dore G. Bilbo of Mississippi has been
writing letters to large numbers of
congressman and senator's urging
them to keep the white race pure,
and enclosing for their study book
let entitled "Let Ny People Co. by
Ernest Sewer Cox, author of white
America
Bilbo, in his letter to the con-
gressmen, calls the booklet "a gen
uine gold nugget, dug from rich
intellectual mine BY that distinguish
ed American author, Hon. r. S.
Cox and goes on to say .'if you
are Interested in keeping your
white blood stream pure, please slip
tbs little booklet into your pocket
right now, take it home with you,
and at the first opportunity read and
digest every line of it.
The booklet is an argument for
sanding Negroes back to Africa.
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DIN. Everytime we strike a little
luck it seems that something happens
and we are right back where we
started. Seemingly we can't accom-
pllsh anylning Are we properly
mated?
Ans:-You are yes the diff
Guilty lies with you both. You pull
together as you should un.il gooI
fortune comes your way and when
,.ns .oon prosl GUS both OF
you take an entirely different atti-
tude aid owe ngl.s t-.iags will
change Make up your minds to
bank sum Of ey each month
regardless of how condit ons are and
keep tbs up and you vii get ahead.
o. 4. Will ] ever reach 4 higher
station III life2 Advise me along any
line that you see tit2
Ans: Where there is will, there
is way. OF course you will CON
tinue to climb the ladder Of su cess
and right now you snould choose
some k nd Of career or trade and
concentrate on ii for The balance Of
your life. Work and plenty Of i
is the way 10 reach your goal.
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Beware Kidney
Germs If Tired,
Nervous, Aching

Are you Run Down. Nervous. suffer Aching
or Swollen JointS2 DO you Get Up Nights, or
suffer from Burning Passages, Frequent
Puffy Eyelids. Loss of Appetite and Energy9
II so, the true cause often may be germs
developed in the body during colds. or by
These germs may attack the delicate mem-
branes OF your Kidneys or Bladder and often
cause much trouble. Ordinary medicines
Ferms. The doctors formula Cystex, now
stocked by all druggists, starts fighting Kid
ney germs in hours and must prove entirely
satisfactory In l week and be exactly Che
medicine you need or money back is guar
anteed. Telephone your druggist for Cysfex
tSiSs-texl TODAY. The guarantee protects
You Copr. 1887 Tho Knox Co
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THE PEOPLES DRUG STORE
Fifth and Western Avenue
Cincinnati and Washington SITS.
Germantown st. and Broadway
Bosses Won't
Hire People with
HaIitosis | sass1# sa1
People who get and hold jobs
keep their breath agreeable

With the best to choose from these days, en-
ployers favor the person who is most attrao-
tive. In business life as in the social world,
hatoss Unpleasant breath) is considered the
worst OF faults.
Unfortunately everybody suffers from this
offensive condition at some time or other
many more regularly than they think, Fermen-
tation of food particles skipped by the tooth
brush is the cause of most cases. Decaying
teeth and poor digestion also cause odors.
The quick, pleasant way to improve your
breath s TO use Listerine, the quick deodorant,
every morning and every night.
Lstrrne halts fermentation. major cause
of odors, and overcomes the odors themselves.
Your breath becomes sweet and agreeable. IL
will not offend Others.
II you value your job and your friends, use
Listerine, the safe antiseptic, regularly. Lam
bert Pharmacai Company, st. Louis, Mo.
Evening star., 1938-07-12
Man and Machine.

skeptics in need Of education in the
relation of the human race. to the
products Of its genius should go to school
to the story of Howard Hughes and his
marvellous flight around the world, now
more than half completed.
OF course, 1t is conceded that an air.
plane may be misused. At the moment
when the intrepid American flyer was
leaving Paris for Moscow, Japanese
bombers were preparing for a further
devastation Of South China. But the
same rule Of occasional misapplication
prevails with regard to everything. The
art Of writing may be employed to forge
checks, yet nobody would plead for in
stitutional illiteracy on that account.
Machines are not inherently vicious any
more than knowledge and control over
circumstance are essentially vile. The
only question really raised by the won
derful developments of an age Of me-
chanical progress is the problem Of
Evening star., 1938-07-12

commensurate maturity Of the soul Of
man. A ship for the navigation Of the
clouds. In the hands Of q character like
that Of Mr.. Hughes Is nothing for any
body to worry about.
The significance Of his journey over
the Atlantic-in half the time required
by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh in the
Spirit Of st. Louis in l927-is one which
should be understood for all Of the i'm
plications involved. It definitely and
incontrovertibly forecasts regular air
travel between the Western Hemisphere
and the Eastern. Earlier flights served
to prove that the proposal was feasible.
Mr.. Hughes now has demonstrated that
it soon may be as commonplace as an
ordinary railroad or steamship schedule.
The romance and color Of such traffic,
however, never will fade. Years pass,
generations come and 60, the earth spins
on in its accustomed path with its usual
quota of trouble and sorrow, people fret
themselves into desperation over the
tardy pace Of social evolution; yet life
Is eminently worth living, victories stall
are more numerous than defeats, the
power that vitalizes the dream of a
voyager who puts a girdle around the
planet in few hours will not desert the
human family in its endeavor to read
even the most difficult riddles of
mechanical civilization.
Evening star., 1938-07-12

A taxi driver, one Of o most interesting
clan, told uS recently Of . woman pas
senger who, he said, did not know that
food comes from farms.
"She thought 1t comes from cans" he
said. with infinite disgust.
He was emphatic in his belief that she
actually had no idea that corn and to-
matoes and meat came from the farms
Of the Nation.
The driver said that, In q discussion,
such as often occurs in cabs, he had said
something to the effect that II the farm
ers quit work, all the people in the big
cities would starve to death.
The lady Indignantly denied this. She
said, according to the taximan, she
could buy all the food she wanted at her
grocery.
But don't you know, madam, he had
said, where the food comes from?
1T comes from the grocery" she an
swered.
But 1t comes from the farm first. he
replied.
mo" she had insisted. ut comes
from the grocery"
This may seem rather far-fetched, but
every one has run into similar cases:
It is impossible, Of course, for every
one to know everything, but there would
seem to be an essential body Of common
knowledge, as distinguished from knowl-
edge in books, which by right ought to
be the possession Of all people.
A great deal Of the ignorance common
everywhere, in regard to matters which
any one might think offhand, every one
ought to know, comes about through
sheer lack Of interest.
It Is possible to find people making
q life work of selling things who actually
do not know anything about the very
things they sell, although Just q little
reading and personal investigation would
make them apparent masters of it all.
Often purchaser may be amazed at
the actual ignorance of such persons,
until he stops to realize that the sales
man actually has no interest at all In
what he is selling.
~ 4
Some people with only a casual inter-
est in bird life are willing to believe the
most preposterous stories about hum
mingbirds, for instance, when all the
time some Of the actual facts about
the ruby-throats are far more mar
velous.
What. for instance, could be more
amazing than the way this gem of the
air" feeds its young?
Eating minute insects. often caught
IN the nectar Of flowers, the mother bird
permits this to digest for about half an
hour. then regurgitates this half-d
gested mass and forcibly pumps it down
the throats Of the fledglings.
This action is more marvellous than
picking up an insect and popping it
into the bill OF baby. It cannot be a
pleasant Job. and yet 1t is done so thor
ougnly that when the young humming-
oird nrst tries its wings it flies perfectly
and even expertly.
Evening star., 1938-07-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

It is not to be wondered ut, since
there are more wild birds in local
suburban areas this season than for
many years past, that . number Of
them have been found dead.
In ordinary years the observer seldom
sees bird on the street, but this season
many have been found, . large propor-
ton of them robins, some Of them quite
plainly very old birds.
We have found four dead birds in the
past week, more than We have seen cold
in eight years.
Two Of these birds were wood thrush
es, hattened in the road by automobile
tires, and two were robins.
It was plain that the robins had died
either Of old age, or the maladies in
cident thereto. It is always q matter Of
wonder among bird observers how few
such birds are found.
Probably they fly to the woods, where
their little bodies are hid. There can
be little doubt, even though seldom seen,
that millions Of birds die what we call
natural deaths every year. There must
be both deaths from old age, per Re, and
Of various maladies even as the rest Of
living creatures.
The two wood thrushes probably were
babies, killed before their experience In
this world was sufficient to teach them
to avoid great moving shadows which
came upon them quickly.
We often have seen baby birds calmly
walking on Brookville road, in nearby
Maryland, and have shooed some Of
them into the yards to get them out Of
the way.
On every suburban street and in every
yard there is the spectacle at this sea-
son Of large baby birds standing with
gaping bill, waiting for the parents to
pop worms and insects therein.
In most instances the young are as
large as, or even larger than the par
ents. The watcher believes that It is
the mother bird which does most Of
the feeding. No sight is more inter-
esting in the sport Of bird watching.
One will wonder how the old bird has
the idea of giving up the food It finds,
and which ordinarily it would eat. A
succinct explanation is the one word,
God.
While the morning chorus grows less
day by day, now. the songsters still have
many a melody left in them for our
daily delight.
Out our way Bob White" has been
making the sky ring recently. At FIRST
we thought it human imitation and
then mockingbird, but at last realized
it was the real thing.
This is one cry which seems to fit the
words popularly given to it. We believe
that any one, hearing it for the first
time. would put exactly the same words
to it, even If somehow he had never
heard that there is bird named so.
1t is an amazing fact, how many per-
sons there are in the world who seem
never to have heard Of the simplest
things
Evening star., 1938-07-12
Fisherman Garner.

The explanation that fishing trip
prevented Vice President Garner from
greeting Mr.. Roosevelt when the latter
visited Texas on his cross country tour
will hardly serve to deter the specula-
lively inclined from reading q deeper
significance into Mr.. Gamers attitude.
There is, Of course, the recognized fact
that fishing, with the Vice President, is
a serious business-an avocation that
should not be subjected to the inter-
ference Of political matters. Nor is
Mr.. Garner the type of man who would
willingly travel several hundred miles
to pay an ordinary social call. AS he told
the President in his telegraphed greet
ings: 1T is too far to walk, and
I am now working for q living"
But most men in public life would have
been only too willing to make the trip
from Uvalde to Fort Worth to receive
the President. and Mr.. Gamers failure
to do so cannot be lightly dismissed.
When Mr.. Roosevelt began his swing
around the country 1t was generally un-
Evening star., 1938-07-12

derstood that he would seek to purge"
the Democratic party Of certain sena-
tors who had not consistently supported
New Deal policies. The purge was
Fundamentally opposed by many Of the
more conservative Democrats, and there
is every reason to believe that Mr.. Gar
ner was among their number. That
being the case, IT. is reasonable to sup
pose that the Vice President stuck to
his fishing to avoid being identified in
any way with the campaign to rid the
party Of those who refused to take their
voting orders from the White House.
Those who saw in the Texas incident
a confirmation Of the reported difference
OF opinion between Mr.. Garner and the
White House also recalled the recent
statement by friends Of the Vice Presi-
dent that he would not be q candidate
Tor third term in 1910 under any cir
cumstances. That statement, which has
not been denied by Mr. Garner, was in
terpreted as hint to the President
that ne, too, should definitely withdraw
himself as a possible nominee for a
third term, clearing the way for the
New Dealers and the old-line Demo-
Gratis to fight out that issue in the
party's convention.
Although the amenities were carefully
preserved in the friendly exchange of
kilograms between Mr.. Garner and the
President, many will continue to see
something f1shy in the fact that there
was no meeting at the border.
Evening star., 1938-07-12
Letters to The Star
Approves Proposal
For Secretary of Peace.

For Secretary of Peace.
To the Editor Of The Star:
Mr.. BENJAMIN STICKNEY Jr.'s let
- ter recalling DR.. Kettner's proposal
for secretary of peace and the need for
character and peace education is very
significant
In President Roosevelt's address ON
July at the Worlds Fair to the Ma
tional Education Association. he called
attention to the value Of the education
Of the youth of this Nation as one of our
greatest assets for the future It is
deplorable to think what little interest
and value Is placed upon such state
ments.
Mr.. Stickney speaks of change which
might lead us toward greater social
spiritual understanding. Whom can we
depend upon for such a change? Judg-
ing by the actions of our good business
men. politicians, statesmen, and leaders
in religion and education, it is apparent
that their moral duty is to preserve the
traditions and dogmas Of the past. How
futile it is to look to these men for a
change toward greater social and spirit
ual understanding. From these minds
that turn to the past, we can hope for
change. no peace. Where these vital
elements of life and progress are not
present, there must follow stagnation
and retrogreSsion.
However, we can still place our hope
in the youth who can be re-educated to
think in terms of the future-in terms of
that great Teacher Of Humanity whose
eternal message is Seek you first the
kingdom Of Heaven and all things shall
be added unto you"
II our great democratic Nation looks
forward to the future with the vision
that higher type Of leadership for the
world be born out Of its ranks, character
and peace education must become a
fundamental part of the education of
our youth.
I heartily affirm DR.. Kettner's PROPOSAL
for secretary of peace to coordinate
and perpetuate the ideals and machinery
for peace. Schools for character educa-
ton, departments and peace houses for
research, contests, peace scouts and
peace press are investments which our
practical intelligence must make today
IN order to reap social and spiritual
gains tomorrow. MATILDA MOSOFF.
New York City.
Evening star., 1938-07-12
Navy Love.Song
By THOMAS r. HENRY.
(ROndeaux.

(R0ndeaux.)
He.
When I'm at Sea-and sunny skies,
F1aunt overhead their azure hue,
My thoughts are ever drawn to you,
And those blue depths that are your eyes,
Who was 1t falsely said: Time flies?"
Eternitys month or two,
When I'm at sea!
For all my heart with longing cries
No day but makes its ache accrue;
You'd pity me If you but knew
How distant seems our paradise,
When I'm at sea!
She.
When you're at sea-so drearily,
The hours drag their length along,
Bereft of gaiety and song
Each day face so YEARLY.
And yet really want to be
A Navy trouper," brave and strong
When you're at sea!
I strive my best, you will agree,
To laugh and mingle with the throng;
But there is something very wrong,
With every day and all of me
When you're at seal
p. A. q.
Evening star., 1938-07-12
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Is Always Useful.

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Evening star., 1938-07-12

1t Is discovered with disappointment
that the swimming pool at Greenbelt is
too closely populated with microbes to
be suitable for summer swimming. How
ever advanced settlement ideas may be,
there comes time when the old-fash-
ioned simplicities must still be respected.
There is no demand that soap and tow
els and rainwater be denied the resi-
dents OF Washington's distinguished
neighbor.
Evening star., 1938-07-12

The lighter mood Of the public will
not be ignored. While the struggles of
political giants are forecast. reminis.
cences Of the gigantic but mythical
Paul Bunyan" continue to drift in from
the Northwest with reminders of prodi-
g1ous attainments. In a way Paul
Bunyan" is not altogether without his
political potency as q warm weather
myth.
Evening star., 1938-07-12
Education for Peace
Deemed IN Essential Move.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Is indeed encouraging to read In
your columns the views Of such
spirited and future minded citizen as
Benjamin r. Stickney jr There can be
no question that just as centuries ago
the invention of steamships and air.
planes were innovations, and the de-
mand for free speech and free press were
radically new" today, such demands
and suggestions for the establishment
OF secretary of peace in our cabinet,
colleges for character and peace edu-
cation, department of peace research,
etc., are wholesome moves In a new di-
rection.
We seem almost to have reached the
zenith In mechanical perfection; yet we
are hardly capable of solving the SIM
plest ethical problems, and war is immi-
nent. Is it not logical for us to begin
to seek some spiritual balance and thus
avert disastrous end to our civilizaA
ton? Obviously, peace is not q problS i
OF economies and politics alone, nor will
1t be realized through treaties or arma-
ment reductions (Which in the end re-
suit IN armament races. Until peace
proceeds from the human spirit we
snail have no peace on earth.
Our major peace problems today is
where are individuals to be educated
from childhood onward to be prepared
1or peaceful living and true peace lead
ershlp? Evidently We are in need Of
new institutions to fulfill these new de-
mands OF q growing humanity. How
many OF us are aware of these new
needs In vital practical sense? Do we
have philanthropists who will donate
money Tor the establishment Of schools
for character and peace education?
Where is the government that will ap-
propf1Ate money not only for war and