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plan to relieve the world Of its
present excitement? Has the
gentleman finally hit upon the
right track that he doesn't have
to answer to quite everything?
I, for one, have hopes he is
going to keep quiet on the Aus
trian situation until we learn
a little more about it. Our pres
ent news being censored and as
indefinite as it is, giving us only
the German side, seems to me to
be too inadequate for even the
far-seeing and thinking Mr..
Dodd to discuss in a thoroughly
capable manner.
The world awaits with abated
breath for the moment. though,
when our modern Messiah"
will give us the explanation OF
Mr.. Hitler's actions and words.
Let us hope it will not be too
long before he gives US the solu-
ton also.
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Your |. O..
Nv SHIRLEY SPENCER

SA4A1S1SA~
This is a general quiz with a
brain teaser at the end. Score
10 for each question. Allow Q
minutes.
/. Who wrote:
"Tyger, Tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful SYM
metry?"
2. A baseball player was at
the bat 527 times and made 191
hits. What was his batting
average?
8. Egregrious means (a) talk
ative, (b) excessive, (c) excit-
ing.
4. We hear much today about
the Key to the Mediterranean"
What is It?
5. A lagoon is q ta) British Of
ficer, (b) bird similar to crane,
(c) pool.
6. What is a labial letter?
Name them.
7. 37h per cent Of "a is 16 q
per cent Of what number?
8. Who was the author Of the
Roger de Coverly" series?
8. When something is ocellated
is it (a) speeded up, (b) dis
carded, (c) spotted.
10. A man said he had twenty
children. There was year and
one-half between each of their
ages; his eldest son was born
when the father was "a years
old. The age Of the youngest
child is 81. How old is the
father,
ANSWERS on Page 16)
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Japan and Olynnpics

What some people really
yearn for is a world court to
adjudicate all the iniquities Of
the globe in accord with Ameri-
can virtue, wisdom, and altru-
ism.
They would have such a court
hand down a decision condemn
ing Japan's action in China, but
not make it retroactive to ap-
ply to what our forefathers did
to the Indians.
Unfortunately the Olympic
games, observing what happens
to world courts, are not anxious
to serve in such a capacity.
They could not, anyhow, be-
cause their influence includes
only a handful Of people in each
of some fifty nations, athletes
who accept their standards.
Japanese athletes in the Olym-
pics have been not only marvel
GUS performers but exemplary
sportsmen. This is the only con-
cern of the Olympics.
If Olympic sports are not to
be endlessly interrupted, they
must keep independent of all
political, racial, and religious
controversies. The Olympics are
of this evil world, not of the
spiritual next.
They must tolerate differences
of opinion which do not inter.
fere with sport. BY the same
token they cannot step aside
whenever a faction with a
phobia thinks it would be cum
ming to grab the olympic spot.
light.
A psychologist might analyze
this anxiety to find an excuse to
disrupt the games at envy OF
their grandeur and glory by
transporting people.
If it is any of our business,
| and if America iS llnaninnnIs n,
disapproving Japan in China-
and our State department is
convinced on neither point
there is a more effective way Of
registering our views. And ]
don't mean fluttering a silk
stocking boycott.
c. A. B.
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Rlames Versailles Pact

Recent happenings in Europe
are making certain writer's and
lecturers quite excited. All ready
to fight. are they? Oh, no! 1t
is much safer to prod someone
else into a fight by writing
articles full Of hatred and ex-
aggeration.
Many nations have in the
past, indulged in force Of arms
to obtain. what they thought,
a permanent gain.
At present, many Of these
are sated and satisfied, some
are too weak, others have be-
come resigned to their fate,
while . few are straining at
the leash to shatter this mirage
we call the status quo" OF
nations.
The ''big four" at Versailles
of those behind them. certainly
could not have played q
smarter game, If they wanted
q future war.
Deliberately they split UP the
Germanic speaking world. You
say, they had no such sinister
purpose In mind2 Were then,
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these famous, big, powerful men
lacking in knowledge of the
essentials, to-wit: Geography.
language and history?
Unique in history is this
rather peaceful invasion of Aus
tria, the Germanic remnant
Of q loosely knitted former
world power.
Could this be expected 10
function properly as q live
state, as an independent
economic unit? Hardly.
The objection Of three pow.
ers with a combined popula-
ton Of some $50 million, sans
colonies, to this expansion lies
deeper than mere fear and
envy.
Only those who know the
powerful minorities which rule
these countries, France, Eng
land, and Russia, will fully un-
derStand. K. J..
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LawIor's Reply

I usually pay little or no at
tention to anonymous commune
cations or phone calls from read
ers and contributors to your col
umn. I have waited for an
answer from Anna Lansburgh,
A. j. Lea, A. J. Dancy, r. B. and
F. Smith to my question, How
did Isidore Fisch, Bruno Hauptr
mann and Doctor Max Sammett
get into the country?" But, I
have waited in vain.
Although I am .4JC immune
from the charms of logic, and I
recognize constructive criticism
whenever see 1t, none Of the
above-named have produced any
thing in their letters in your col
umn resembling logic that would
offer some valid reason for bring
ing Immigrants INTO Cn1S coun'
try.
To R. B., who has become
weary of reading criticism OF
Government employees, I will
state that lots Of us appreciate
how he or she feels. At the
same time we have become
weary of reading about Hitler.
Mussolini, Stain, Franco and
other foreigners a long time ago.
AS to my personal criticism Of
Government investigators made
over a period Of about 16 years,
I have something in the way Of
court records and facts to back
it up. I also have a very high
regard for justice for all, regard
less Of their race, color or creed.
B. ]. LAWLOR.
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the wron
idea on how
to raise a
boy, and is
apt to treat
him too much
as she would
a d a u ghter,
an d t h u S
caN..Gs his boy
C m panions
to brand him
IS isSy " A
mother should
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He Should KnouU

Herbert Hoover says there
isn't going to be a war any time
soon. That settles it, folks
and remembering how his pre-
dictions used to come true in
1929-33, I'll say we'd all better
get our guns. +. !.
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layishes too
m u ch atten-
t i o n a n d
I o ndneSS on
her son can
hurt him a
gr e at deal
later in life,
when he eX-
D e C t S the
same kind of
t r e a t m ent
t r o m t h e
W o m q n he
marrieS."
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spire her son
and to influ-
ence him to
virile m a n
h 90 d She
should not be
the sort Of
doting moth.
er who does
m ore harm
than good, A
boy should be
given all pos
81 b lie oppor.
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mics are telling us that 1t
is a bill to make the Presi-
dent a dictator; that we
must all write or wire our
Senators to vote against it;
that Armageddon has ar
rived, and unless the bill is
beaten our beloved coun-
try will surrender to a
form of government COM
bining the worst features
of Hitlerism, Stalinism,
MusSolini-ism and Franco
ISM.
Actually, the bill is an
old-timer, though this bill
is of course not worded
exactly as were previous
bills aimed at the same re-
suits. President after
President has begged Con-
gress for legislation to halt
the funguslike growth Of
overlapping bureaus and
boards. Digging through
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4ooIAAlS1J hONhASu aA1O AoA'
or Mould De?
We think we would. We're
sure that pain and disappoint.
ment are senseless and waste.
ful-in our cases, at least.
SOME people may need such
discipline to bring out the best
that's in them, but not you.
No-you need love, happiness,
success they feed you
you flower under them.
Or do you?
Strange how we mortals fool
ourselves unable to see the
real sources of our strength
=. needing to suffer cruelty,
sometimes even to die, before
we can get an honest perspec.
tive on our lives.
There was Jeremiah-that
fearless, flaming mystic out Of
great Lsrael's past. How un.
real he seemed to you as a
child, listening to the thunder
of his wrath, the wild wall Of
his grief, keening and raShing
about you in the village
church.
But he wasn't unreal. Jere.
miah lived, as surely and hotly,
as any man lives today q.
loving, fighting, praying, ours.
ing in great Sobbing shouts 4.
demanding and demanding
those things he thought he
needed, as you and I demand
and demand today.
Defying even God to deny
those demands! Leaving God
giving himself over to
strange and filthy adulteries Of
the soul because God would
not grant him his wayl
A very human man that
laundering jeremiah! And now
Franz Werfel, who wrote "The
Forty Days of Musa Dagh," has
swept the cobwebs Of time away
and given us the real jeremiah
flaming soul and furious flesh
in his new book, "HEARKEN
UNTO THE VOICE" (Viking
Press).
A tremendous book bar
baric splendor, barbaric horror,
heart-breaking pain. A great
book to read at any time, but
particularly so in these thought
full days Of Lent, when Life and
the Soul pause. for a space, be-
fore the Mysteries ..
No-not a religious book.
Save as all Life is religious. Nor
great merely because it pre-
SentS a towering, historical fig
ure. But great and true-and
terrible-because it shows the
struggling, the human spirit.
Not just Jeremiah's stormy
spirit, but everyone's. Yours. :.
mine. each one of us with
some cherished dream and the
firm belief that we know what's
best for us. Each one of us
wanting more power and joy
out of life and centering our
hearts on some person or thing
which, we're sure, will give us
our desire.
jeremiah, in his hot youth,
yearning for dusky, sweet zenua.
jeremiah, in his battling man.
hood, longing to save Jerusalem.
And you and I, with our own
shining visions.
Well, why not They're good
things, fine things. why can't
we have them? We're so eager
for a great love, a proud, joyous
fight. why must God send, in.
stead, shock and shame and
tears? Break our hearts with
useless pain and wasteful wait
ing?
Snatch away the cup, just as
we life it to our lips Does that
spell justice-or make sense?
Rebellious jeremiah couldn't
think it did. Yet, at the last,
q strange enlightening came.
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give her son inspirations and
ideals which will enable him to
stand on his own feet, rather
than to take over both a
mothers and a fathers job"
X X X
Miss Lillian Belkov, 5614
Third st. N. W., salesgirl:
"A mother should try to in
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tunity to use his own judgment
so that he will be able to meet
the world when he is beyond his
mothers influence. Too much
doting will make a boy self-cen
tered"
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Disci,sses Mr.. Dodd

What has become Of our Mr..
"Doodlebug" Dodd?
The world must be in q terri
BILE state if our answer to every.
ones prayer has found in the
Modification of Austria a condi-
ton that he is unable to explain.
What are the common people
to do now that Mr.. Dodd has no
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WORLD!
Bv Elsie Robinson

(copyight Features Syndicate Inc)
TTOW rich life would be- if could have the things
II we want! How much stronger and wiser, kinder
and better balanced we'd become if we weren't
lastngly hecked and handicapped by lack and faure
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Decline and Fall

1t must make q barbarian
shudder if he ever stops to dwell
on the possibility of sinking into
the depths of civilization.
E. c. H.
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They j u S t
can't help it,
p a r ticularly
as ar as
their sons are
concerned. I
t h ink too
m II C h is
harmful, but
it is just as
b a d for a
mother to al
low her boy
to exert too
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"It depends
on how the
mother dotes.
An int e lii
gent mother,
with oper
love and at
tention, C a n
be a great
help to her
son, if she
d o e S n o t
teach him to
d e pc nd too
much on her. !"
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much independence and thus
become unmanageable."
X X
Charles A. Kengla, 3018 Por-
ter st. N. W., insurance agent:
mo. A mother often has
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d on e by a
doting moth
er is that she
would in ter
fere with the
d e velopment
of in depend
ence on the
part Of the
b o y, OF
C our Sc, the
reason why a
m o t he is
dotinp is be-
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The Inquiring
.Photoqropher
The Washington Times In
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions TO
be used In this column.
THE QUESTION

Is a doting mother a good in
fluence during a boys forma-
tive years?
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
A Fight to Keep Uncle Sam
Inefficient

THE Senate battle the Presidents government re-
L organization bill is all very human and understand
able if one knows what it is at bottom. The bills
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
BLOCK MOVE TOCIVE
HOOVER WIDE POWER
Harrison'S Shift Breaks Tie
Vote in Senate on Bureau
Merger Plan
VGNOENBURG PROPOSED IT
Offered as Amendment TO Pend.
ing eiII-Some Democrats
Favored the Proposal.
eu.A, ~.w ~,x 1r~e

Special TO TEE NsV yOEE 9nns.
WASHINGTON. March 11.-An at
tempt by Senator VHndsnbsrg Of
Michigan to tack onto the Interior
2sHSNS1seSsS&!4
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

limited addresses Of
writers will be omitted upon request
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
Wise Words

A just and reasonable mod
esty does not only recommend
eloquence, but sets off every
great talent which a man can
be possessed of.-Addison.
The Washington times., 1938-03-23

For the maintenance Of
peace, nations should avoid the
pin-pricks which forerun can
non-shots. Napoleon to the
Car Alexander.
At certain periods of life we
live years of emotion in a few
weeks, and look back on those
times as on great gaps between
the old life and the new
Thackeray.
Men err not so much IN
prompt action as in hasty judg'
ment.-Louis Napoleon.
Patriotism is the last refuge
of a scoundrel. DIR. Samuel
johnson.
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THE ANSWERS
Mrs. Nora Martin, 1884 Mas
SachuSettS Ave. N. W.:
mo. A doting mother who
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cause she feels she can guide
her boy and perhaps protect
him against what she thinks
are undesirable influences"
X
Miss Joseph inc Bierman,
14O1 Floral st. N. W., uniVer-
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
WHAT'S THE NEWS?

To Sail Ruth Ellington, New
York City, sister of Duke Filing
ton, and a Columbia university
senior, for Paris, to study for
four months at the Sorbonne.
Bequeathed - Tuskegee Insti-
tute, $4,000 by Mrs. Regula w.
Alberta, white widow in San
Anselmo, Calf, in a will that
cut off all her relatives by name.
Found The bodies of four
people who drowned in water
filled ditch in Philadelphia. They
had been missing since New
Years morning.
Disappeared - r alph Mat
thews, feature writer for the Al
ro-American, from his office in
Washington, d. c., and cannot
be traced.
Convicted - James Ivey, truck
driver in Sarasota, of the muir
der of Henry Dorsey, in re-
hearing Of the case brought about
because one of the jurors was
asleep during the original trial.
Died - DR.. T. Spotuas Bur-
well, 60 of Philadelphia, ply
sician there for 80 years.
Forbidden - Women teachers
in Bridgeton, N. j., to marry Sc
cretly, by the board Of education
Died - Former circuit solicit
tor Wade Wright, assistant pros
ecutor Of the Scottsboro cases ir
Decatur, Ala.
Married - Miss Connie Pate
teacher in Burlington, N. j., tc
Joseph R. Whiting, graduate o.
Howard and employed by the
government in Washington, D. c
Engaged - Miss Jeanette Al
len Of Brunswick, N. j., Rutger;
university student, to George
Reeves, Jr., Of Princeton, N. j.
Arrested - Three East Cam
den, N. j., church workers, anc
charged with disorderly conduct
because they refused to sit il
the jim-crow seats designated t
them by the manager Of small
theatre in Camden.
Killed - Albert Lane, Is, o
Chattanooga, Tenn, by injurie!
received when he was hit by ;
rock thrown by Clarence Congo
IL.
Announced - The marriage
of Georgia CoWen, child special
list at Spelman college in Atlanta
Ca, to Oliver Poole Of Florence
| Ala.
Died Harry A. Morgan, 90
a civil war veteran; in Atlant;
City, N. J.
Announced - The marriage o
| Yvette Maxine Davidson, teache
in Sand Springs, Okla, to Jane
Murphy, Alpha Phi Alpha fra
ternity man and Journalist, Bal
timOre, Md.
ElOped - Miss Milicent Hoo
per of Harrisburg, Pa, to Hag
erstown, Md, where she marie
DR.. Harrison E. Champion
Altoona, Pa, March %. Plan
had been set for their marriag
on April Is.
EHSdECu - N11SS 11OIClA
Hearnes, Of York, Pa, associat
) director of the Crispus Attuck
t Community Center, to Daniel ,
: Winge, Yale man, and assistar
: manager Of the Douglass-Harri
son apartments in Newark, N. ,
Married - Wilhelmina Nc
Claim, teacher in Baltimore an
, member of Delta Sigma Thet
! sorority, to Eugene G. KIM
principal in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Died - George Gilbert Of Flo
: rida, father Of Mercedes Gilber
dramatic and character actres
! who starred in "Mulatto.'
Died - Edwin Slaughter {
E | London, England, who laughed
I hard at the Peters sisters in "A
: Baba Goes to Town." that +
= died of heart failure.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
Jno. Alexander,
Father of Mrs. Nj
Martin, Buried

Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at o'clock
from the Banks Funeral Chapel
for John Alexander, $3.50 Rhodes
avenue, pioneer Chicagoan who
died Thursday night after an ill
ness of several months. Mr..
Alexander was 70 years old.
Interment was Monday in Lin
coin cemetery. Mr.. Alexander
was the father Of Mrs. Matte
Martin, prominent Chicago bust
ness woman.
He is survived by five sons, Ri
chard, Baltimore, Md; Charles,
John Henry, Joseph and Herman
Alexander, all Of Chicago; and six
daughters, Mesdames Matte Mar
tin, Allie Mae Murray, New York
City; Clara Clay, Emma Young,
Chicago; Misses Gertha and Oil
via Alexander, also of Chicago.
Mr.. Martin had been i'll in
local hospital snce November.
He died Thursday night shortly
after II o'clock.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
HICKERSON FREED
OF MURDER,
RITRGLARY CHARGES

Murder charges against Mack
Hickerson, 38-y e r-old cripple
were dismissed Wednesday morn
ing in Judge erome DUNES
courtroom. He was also found
not guilty of attempted burglary.
Hickerson confessed" to the
murder Of Anna Ku h t a, l9-
year-old white nurse after he
had allegedly been b e t e n and
tortured by police. The murder
is still unsolved.
The attempted burglary charg-
es were preferred against him by
Jones L. Epple, white, city fire
man. Hickerson was defended by
Attys. Ulysses Keys, Joseph p
Clayton and Chas. w. Burton OF
the National Negro Congress;
Max Neinan, Maurice 0. Heu-
bsch and Steinberg Of the Inter
national Labor Defense.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
Man Stays Three
Whites When His
Wife Loses Job

CLEVELAND, April 28-Be-
lieved to have gone insane be-
cause his wife was fired last
week from a job as elevator OPP
orator she had held IA years,
William Peters, 43, shot and kill
ed two white men and a woman
Friday.
Hans Getslaff, SO, custodian of
the building where Mrs. Peters
had worked, and Mitchell Paser,
the engineer, were the men slain.
The woman was Evelyn BISnes,
"a. The whites were killed in
a fashionable apartment with a
revolver after the woman was
thrown from the slayer's car near
the apartment building IS min
uteS earlier.
Police captured Peters after an
80 mile an hour auto chase which
ended in a gasoline filing station
lot. When the slayer was cap
tured, he told police, Il hope
| they're all dead"
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
Fugitive Blacks
Face, Red Hair
Gives Him Away

WASHINGTON, April 28-(A
NP)-If it weren't for his hair,
Jesse Jacob Castor, 26, might still
be a fugitive from Florida chain
gang.
Castor BACKED his face to re-
semble a Negro in his efforts to
escape apprehension. But po-
iceman in nearby Maryland saw
this combination Of red hair and
black face and arrested Castor
for investigation. That's how
they found he was an escaped
convict.
Ask your neWsdealer for The
CKITC AGO DEF
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
Chattanoogans
Fight Mortuary
Among Homes
By KATIE E. JOHNSON for AMP

BY KATIE E. JOHNSON for AMP
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April
ga group Of home owners and
other residents Of West Ninth
street last week filed a petition
in Chancery court to enJo1n fu-
neral director OTIS F. Cox from
operating his undertaking bust
ness in the exclusive residence
district. The petition asked for
perpetual injunction against
Cox and requested that the case
be heard on oral testimony.
The petitioners assert that I'M
der the zoning ordinance passed
in 1926, construction of business
houses in the district is prohib-
tied. They also declare Cox was
refused a license by the license
inspector and his action was sus-
tanned by the city commission,
but that Gin defiance of that Or
der" Cox has been conducting his
undertaking business there for
several months.
Residents of the district say OPP
Grafton Of the funeral home is
destroying the value Of adjacent
property for residential purposes.
The petition was filed by the law
firm Of Cantrell, Meachem and
Moon. Cox, according to reports,
was recently discharged from the
home on a theft charge.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
1st Federal Art
Center for Negro
Opens in South


MEMPHIS, Tenn, April %
(ANP)-The first Negro Federal
Art Center in the South was
opened on LeMoyne college cam
pus last week. It is known as
the LeMoyne college Federal Art
Center, and represents a unique
contribution TO the cultural life
of the South. 1t is, according to
LeMoyne college officials, the only
art center Of the more than half
a hundred Federal Art Projects
to be established in the South,
which is for Negroes, the first on
a Negro college campus, and the
first to be supported mainly by
Negroes.
This new project is sponsored
by three agencies-WPA through
the Federal Art Project, which
supplies the bi-racial staff for the
centre: LeMoyne college, which
has donated tie building, light,
heat and other facilities; and the
Negro community Of Memphis
through the LeMoyne Art Asso-
citation, which supplies the mon
ey for running expenses OF the
institution. The gallery opened
with the Harmon Foundation eX-
hibition Of paintings by contem-
porary Negro artists as its first
show. and has been visited by
people of both races. The cur
rent exhibition is collection O.
contemporary American Art az
developed by the Federal Ar
Project. This exhibition was re-
Gently on view at the Paris Elk
110citiOn