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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-04-07
CALVIN'S DIGEST
BY FLOYD j. CALVIN
Listed by Editor & Publisher)


as visiting lecturers or part time
faculty members in medical schools,
notably Chicago, Northwestern, lii
nois and Harvard. All over the
South, young peoples groups meet
today almost Haunting their deter
mination to abolish the tabus which
once kept the two races apart and
Misunderstanding. The Justice Of
the dissemination against Negro
schools is being agitated, and faced.
But we still have habit Of forget
ting about Negroes when talking
about democracy in America. And
while we are resenting the plight Of
the Jews in Germany, we may Well
think harder about Negroes in
America"
Health Week
The Silver Anniversary of the
National Negro Health Week move
ment is in April of this year. Of
fetal Health Week is April 2-9, but
the observance will run from April
1-30.
The health of the Negro is be-
coming of increasing Importance.
Negro insurance companies now have
financial stake in the longevity of
our people to the extent of $272,-
527,288, as of December 81, 1887.
In 1887 Negro insurance companies
paid death claims of $2,580,491. In
the same year they paid sick and dis
ability claims of $1,756,753.09. In
1888 the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company alone paid
to ,policyholders and benefciaries,
$872,412.74; The American Wood
men paid claims Of nearly $250,000.
We can see, therefore, the impor-
tance Of improving the health of our
people from a strictlB dollar and
cents viewpoint. The social view
point is even more important, for
every sick person is a liability to
not only his family, but his com
munity and his country Let us OBJ
serve health week and learn to keep
well.
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red tape to get from state to state
Il our own states than to get into
Canada OF Mexico. We can il we
choose create barriers to enrich
few, but this course invites chaos or
collapse or both.
The editors Of our $1,000 publlca-
tions can do much to clarity Or ex-
pose misleading propaganda.
What is your opinion?
r.. M. KIRkENDALL,
Dayton, Ohio.
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that she had met the treasurer's
daughter. Mrs. Roberts, who was
then Il little girl, laughingly reveal
ed her identity
1--WE will always treasure this visit
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt" said
DR. Patterson. His address gave
as new responsibilities for Tuskegee
to live up to, and we are pledging
ourselves to measure up to the
standard of what these great men
and the race have right TO expect
of US
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Good win Tour


"proyen to be something new in
church circles" is the Good Will
Tour Of more than fifty National
Baptist Convention officials. led BY
Dr. L. X. Williams, president, which
occurred on March 1924, starting
ut Cincinnati and ending at Pensa-
cola, Fla. The party travelled 4,093
miles, passing through seven states
and visiting twenty cities.
One OF the main features Of the
tour was the singing Of Gospel
Songs, which was designed to "show
the power of music to enrich lives, 7
and also inspirational preaching.
DR. Williams, in enumerating the
detectives of the tour, stressed two
points which are of interest and
value TO all those who are interested
in group% welfare and progress,
namely: "To promate the desired
cooperative spirit between business
and church circles that is necessary
for a wholesome development of the
race; to encourage each section to
meet unitedly and wholeheartedly
its own, problems and through the
application of Christian principles
and methods, champion the rights
of the Negro,
Survey Graphic
The February number of the Sur
vey Graphic, New York, carried a
symposium of articles under the
general title, Calling America
"The challenge to Democracy reach
es Over Here" The Negro, OF
course, was included, in an article,
"We're Another" by Lewis Gan
nett lwhite).
Concluding his article, Mr.. Gan
nett says: Increasingly the intel
lectual leaders of the South have
met Negroes as individuals, not as
members of race. The University
of North Carolina, always a leader,
invited the late James Weldon
Johnson to lecture, and when he
came, gave him precisely the wei
come it would have given to white
poet and scholar-statesrnan of equal
distinction; the example has begun
TO spread. New York University in
1886 made DIR. Johnson full mem
Der of It's faculty---the first time any
white university had taken such a
step in its liberal arts college. Sew
eral universities have had Negroes
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to run the WPA until July 1st. AT
ter lengthy hearings the House Com
mittee reported that but fifty-five
million dollars was necessary TO take
care of present requiremnts, but in
order to give a cushion for pay
rolls for the period of change be-
tween the old and new fiscal years
bill appropriations q hundred mil
lion dollars was reported out and
passed by the House after q leng-
thy debate. Before taking action,
however, the House adopted, by an
overwhelming majority, q resolution
by Representative Cox of Georgia
providing for searching investiga-
tion Of WPA and all of its ramifica-
tions by committee of the House.
The report and findings of the COM
mittee will be used as guide in
grating relief legissgtion for the
new fiscal year.
Those among Seventh District vis-
itors in Washington last week were
Miss Margaret Baker, Republican
State Central Committeewoman, and
her mother of Springfield; Webber
G. French of Washington CHI; III.
A. Tyson of the Armstrong Radi-
ator Company and j. B. Wood, well
known grain elevator operator, and
Glen Woosley of the Madison Press,
of London; DIR. and Mrs. G.. Z. Gar
win, the Misses Betty Jean and Dor
othy Brown Of Blanchester; and Ned
Lewis Walker of Jamestown.
~
The next s'Rapublicans-on-the~
March" dinner to be given by the
congressional delegation at Wash
ington will be held at the Willard
Hotel on April goth with Senator
Robert A. Taft of Ohio as one of
the featured speakers. The last
dinner the Spring season will be
held in May with Governor John w.
Bricker leading the list Of distin-
guished speakers. Clarence j. Brown
is on the special congressional COM
mittee in charge Of both meetings.
Thus Ohio continues to hold her
place in the limelight Of public af-
fairs.
The United States Government has
refused to recognize Germany's
conquest of Czechoslovakia and CON
tinues to accept the Czechoslovak-
ian Ambassador, Mr.. Vladimir Hur-
ban, as the official diplomatic rep
resentative lof the Republic which
no longer survives. Mr.. Hurban has
refused to turn over the Czechoslo-
vakian Embassy and other property
bf his country to the German Am
bassador, who has demanded them.
and continues his diplomatic head
quarters in the beautiful Czechoslo-
vakian structure lon Massachusetts
avenue. Il ss reported tAAk sxosa aaa
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and to get first
hand glimpse 0 t
government in ac-
ton. I h G Ohio
Chamber Of Com
nerce sponsored
the trip, in which
retailers and man
ufacturers joined
- 4an ,,,,v,L.ar - 4
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Father Sentenced
or Beating Child

DAYTON Pleading guilty to
contributing TO juvenile del nquen-
cy, George Anderson, 81, of l3l 50.
Western Avenue, was anteneed to
three months IN the workhouse laes-
day BY Juvenile Judge Arthur Mar
key. Anderson was hald for beating
his 9-year-old son, George, ~, Feb
ruarN Is.
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From AscAP Files
bv sosena n. FiiesIer and Paul Garruff

Gus was twenty when he met the girl
who Was TO become his wife, Grace Le Boy,
who was pianist and composer TOR tho
Ren1ick Company in Chicago.
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over the country offers of support
have come to the Czechoslovakian
Ambassador and thousands Of let
ters and kilograms have been re-
ceived urging him TO astand his
ground in the controversy.
Demands for amendments to COR
rect some of the present abuses
which exist under the Wagner La
Dor Relations Act have been pouring
in on members Of Congress in an
ever-increasing torrent for the past
several weeks. Thus far the ADJ
ministration has failed to report out
any bill to change that controversial
law, and it is rumored that the Ad-
r1Inistration will attempt to stave
off amendments to the Act at this
session of Congress. However, it
the temper Of the Congress and the
country can be properly ganged the
matter Of amending the National
Labor Relations Act will be forced
out On the Eacor Ees action.
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BIRTH or A SONG

He began. q journalistic career as an err
rand boy on small Chicago paper. LOST ms
lob, and aave up his nexf Job, in hardware
store, the day no sold his first sony.
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several hundred. Friday night
Members Of Congress from Ohio
wSre guests at a banquet given in
their honor by the Ohio visitors.
Old friendships were renewed and
new acquaintanceships were made.
AS result of the visitation the
Ohio business leaders and the con
gressional members understand each
others problems much better than
before.
The largest appropriation for the
Department Of Agriculture ever
made was passed by the House last
week. The bill contained items to-
falling nearly eight hundred and
fifty million dollars, including FIVE
hundred million dollars for con-
tinuation of the soil conservation
plan. An attempt to include in the
bill five hundred million dollars for
additional benefits and parity pay
naents was defeated by small mar
gin after days of debate. The mea-
sure now goes to the Senate for ac-
tion Of that august body,
Farm leaders have been making a
determined fight to have the tariff
on vegetable fats and oils increased
10 as .f6 Create a better market for
like products from American farms.
A number of Ohioans, including sew
eral from the Seventh District, are
Il the forefront of the battle. 1T
Is predicted that they will be sue
cessful in their endeavors.
The House Of Representatives, by
q heavy margin, rejected President
Roosevelt's demand for hundred
and fifty million dollars additional
Evening star., 1939-06-27
| Record Omits
| Strong Words
USED in House

The Congressional Record came
of the press today with the word
"skunk" conspicuously missing, al
though it was used several times in
the House yesterday during the heat
of debate on the Schultz milk bill.
The word was used by both Rep
resentatives Schafer, Republican, of
Wisconsin, and Bates, Democrat, of
Kentucky, who served as chairman
of the committee which conducted
the recent milk investigation.
Mr.. Bates, in his speech on the
floor defending the use of dicta-
graphs in connection with the milk
inquiry, said:
If I set a trap for rattlesnake
and a skunk gets into it, it is no
fault of mine"
His statement as it appears in the
Congressional Record, however
reads:
If I set trap for a rattlesnake
and my best friend gets in it, it is no
fault of mine"
Mr.. Schafer's remarks did not
even appear in the record. Instead,
there was notation which said:
Mr.. Schafer Of Wisconsin ad-
dressed the committee (the House
was in committee of the whole at
the time). His remarks will appear
hereafter in the appendix"
Members of Congress have the
privilege Of revising their remarks
before they appear in the record.
Evening star., 1939-06-27
President Retains
Some Power Over
Gold Value
Could Repeat Process
Used in 1888 Even if
House Rejects Extension
By the Associated Press.


Treasury experts said today Presi-
dent Roosevelt would retain some
powers over the value of gold even
if the House accepts the Senate
vote against extending his authority
formally to devalue the dollar.
The experts said they believed
the President could repeat the
oeValuatlon procedure followed
throughout 1888 before the dollar
value of gold was formally raised
from S2067 to s35 per ounce on
January 81, 1894.
Shortly after becoming President,
Mr.. Roosevelt instructed the Recon-
struction Finance Corp. to buy for
eign gold. The operations already
had raised the value of gold in terms
OF American money to S34.45 before
the formal devaluation.
The formal devaluation order
fixed the gold content of the statu-
tory gold dollar at Is 5-2l grains of
gold, 9-10 fine. This gave gold the
value OF $35 an ounce compared with
the previous S2O.67 and the former
content of 25,8 grains, fixed by Con-
gress in 1900.
Another power retained by the
President, the Treasury officials
said, is traditional statute author
lzlng the Secretary of the Treasury
to buy gold at almost any time and
IN almost any manner whenever an
emergency arises. This power was
used during President Grant ad-
mlnistration to buy about $500 .OOO.-
0OO OF foreign gold and break jay
Could famous gold corner.
Evening star., 1939-06-27

A carefully groomed, spotlessly
uniformed cadet captain at Central
High School today received a SIS
check from Supt. Frank w. Ballou
as the Gen. w. E. Horton award
to the outstanding cadet captain Of
the school,
Philippe V. Carbon, of 1870 Crest
wood drive NV, received the award
and the congratulations of the
superintendent in simple ceremony
in DR.. Ballou's Office. The small
audience including his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. P. V. Carbon; Principal
Lawrence Hoover of Central High
Col. Wallace NJ Craigie, professor
of military science and tactics for
the white cadets; 1t. Paul Doerr,
in charge of cadets at the high
school, and a few of DR.. Ballou's
secretaries.
Il congratulate you heartily, sir"
said DR.. Ballou, handing over the
check, land hope this S75 will be a
source of inspiration to you to con-
tinue the fine record you have be-
gun at Central"
Evening star., 1939-06-27

THANK you, sir" replied the IT.
year-old cadet who captained the
winning Central team in the inter-
high school annual map war games
early in the spring.
Young Carbon will go to Yale on
a scholarship next year and said he
would probably save the $75 to spend
up there He said he would have
liked to continue his military train
ing there but a heavy schedule
would make it impossible.
The award consists of the interest
on a trust fund created in the will
of the late Gen. w. E. Horton, a
former cadet captain in the cadet
corps, with DR.. Ballou as trustee.
1t is given on the basis of military
bearing, performance of military
duties and general scholarship.
The military bearing of the winner
was judged by the three Regular
Army officers who judged the COM
petitive drills and his performance
of military duties was marked by 1t.
Doerr. His scholastic attainments
were, Of course, taken from the
school records.
Evening star., 1939-06-27
Mrs. Sarah Fabyan
PAGES j. ). Winners
Al Wimbledon
Grocyn Wheeler and
Mrs. Dorothy Andrus
Also Advance
BY the Associated Press

! 6S the Associated Press.
WIMBLEDON, England, June 27.
Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan of
Cambridge, Mass, led the American
contingent into the second round
of women's singles in the all-Eng-
land tennis championship today
with a half-hour victory over Miss
M. G. N. Norman of Great Britain.
The scores were 60, 60.
Queen Mother Mary, dressed in
blue and wearing dark glasses, again
presided over Wimbledon's center
court.
The early starters among the
seeded players-Mrs. Fabyan is Nc
8-all came through. Mrs. Rene
Matthew of France, Mrs. Hilda
KrahWinkel Sperling of Denmark,
Kay Stammers of England and
Jadwiga Jedrzejowska of Poland
gained easy triumphs. Gracyn
Wheeler of Santa Monica, Calf,
and Mrs. Dorothy Andrus of Stam-
ford, Conn, also won their opening
matches.
Two former international stars,
Dorothy Round Little and Mrs.
Ronald Ellis, the former Anita
Litzana, advanced without a great
deal of trouble. Mrs. Little defeated
Miss Stewart, 81, 8-6, and Mrs.
Ellis won at 81, 60 over Mrs. r.
d. McKelvie.
The Queen Mother obviously
was pleased by the great uphill
fight put on by the veteran French
pair of Jacques Brugnon and Jean
Borota to defeat Roderich Menzel
and R. Goepfert of Germany, 2-6,
46, 6-3, Ga, 60, in mems
doubles. Borotra, always one of
Queen Mary's favorites, made a
19th-century bow as he marched
off the center court.
Mrs. Ronald Ellis, Great Britain.
defeated Mrs. R. D. McKelvie, Great
Britain, 81, 60.
Kay Stammers, Great Britain, de-
feated Mrs. E. A. Middleton, Great
Britain, 60, 60.
ASuoAA NAoAy 44dAuW4Sh, 11CdG DIN.
ain, defeated Rosemary Thomas,
Great Britain, 1913, Ga.
Valerie Scott, Great Britain, de-
feated Mrs. l.. Herbst, Bohemia and
Moravia, 60, 60.
Gracyn Wheeler, Santa Monica,
Calf, defeated Betty Nuthall, Great
Britain, IS, 2-6, 90.
Results of other principal matches:
Women's singles first round):
Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, Poland, de-
feated Mrs. j. De Meulemeester,
Belgium, 60, 8-6.
Mrs. Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling
Denmark, defeated Miss G. c.
Hoahing. Great Britain, 60, 60.
Mrs. D. l.. Little, Great Britain,
defeated Miss M. Stewart, Great
Britain, 6-1, 8-6.
Mrs. Rene Matthew, France, de-
feateS Miss E. Porokova, Poland,
Ga, 81.
Evening star., 1939-06-27
Qualifying Golf Round
At Five Forms Course

Sectional qualifying rounds for
golfers in the Middle Atlantic area
for the national amateur golf cham
pionship will be played over the
Five Farms course of the Baltimore
Country Club Tuesday, August 20.
The championship proper will be
played September 11-16 at Glenview,
Ill. Announcement of the choice of
Five Farms as the sectional qualify
ing spot was made today by the
Maryland State Golf Association.
Five Farms is near Lutherville, Md,
about II miles from downtown
Baltimore.
Approximately 10 places will be
open to amateur golfers from the
District OF Columbia, Maryland and
Virginia In the sectional rounds.
Evening star., 1939-06-27
Mexico GroveIy Concerned
Over u. S. Silver Action

MEXICO CITY. June 27 P-
Mexican businessmen expressed
grave concern today over passage bv
the United States Senate of a bill
which would stop foreign purchases
OF sllVer--one of Mexico's most i'm
portant products.
FINANCIAL commentators here were
hopeful, however, that final con-
gressional action would not be
taken.
Inc newspaper Excelsior declared
edltorially that a halt in purchases
would cut one of Mexico's chief
sources OF income and added:
We must agree that this
action Is not at all friendly to our
country; is in complete contrast
with the ends of American policies
during the last few years, which
nave attempted to bring the coun-
trles OF this continent ever closer to.
gether, and that it will certainly
provoke, if this new American
monetary policy should be definitely
adopted, an intense depression in
commercial exchange within our
country"
Mexico ships about 1000 900
ounces of silver monthly to the
United States.
Evening star., 1939-06-27
Congress in Brief
TODAY,

Senate:
Considers $1,735, 100000 relief bill.
II am.
Monopoly Committee begins build
ing and real estate inquiries.
House:
Starts debate on administration
neutrality bill Noon.
Banking Committee continues
hearings in new housing program.
1890 am.
Labor Committee hears Labor
Board testimony on Wagner Act
amendments. 10 am.
Judiciary Committee resumes
study of alien control bill. 10 am.
Appropriations Committee dis
cusses next step in w. P. A. investi-
cation. 10 am
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Probably will debate relief bill.
House:
Continues debate on neutrality
bill.
Judiciary Committee resumes
hearings on railroad reorganization
court bill. 10 am.
Indian Affairs Committee con-
siders miscellaneous bills. 1890 m
Public Buildings and Grounds
Committee considers Mississippi
post Office site bill. 1890 am.
immigration Committee considers
priavte bills. 10:30 am.
Evening star., 1939-06-27
Quarantine Delays Weddino

MOUNT JOY, Pa, June q R.-
II anything goes wrong with the
honeymoon plans of Harry Staufter,
II, and Eva Stauffer, %, it won't be
because they didn't have ample op-
portunity to talk things over.
The unrelated couple have lust
been released from a scarlet fever
quarantine which kept them in the
same house for a month and forced
them to postpone their wedding
until today.
Evening star., 1939-06-27
W. P. A. Orchestra
Scores Big Hit in
Initial Appearance
Many Enjoy Dancing
On South EIIipse;
> Project Defended

Even as they were being warmly
defended, the w. P. A. arts projects
were giving good account of their
worth last night on the South Ellipse
as the w. P. A. Orchestra made its
first appearance of the season.
Some 300 persons, not all of them
OF that species familiarly known as
1itterbugs, happily whiled away two
hours to the tuneful melodies of the
orchestra. About SOC others were OH
hand as spectators, not dancers.
The vim and vigor of the dances,
the questions that were asked as to
when the next dance would be
held, and the good order of the af-
fair indicated that this phase of w.
P. A. work relief is more popular
outside of Congress than it is within
the stately halls where its fate has
been decided.
Unless some other provision is
made, al fresco dances will end after
August 81 when the new relief bill
will wipe out Federally-s
arts projects.
Projects Defended.
Meantime, the arts projects were
defended last night at meeting of
the National Citizens Committee at
the Y. w. C. A.
Merle Vincent, president of the
Washington Branch of the National
Lawyers Guild, described the at
tacks of the w. P. A. arts projects
as "a cultural crime comparable to
the Nazi book burnings."
The Nazi regime" he added. was
financed to power by men of much
the same mind as the enemies of
the w. P. A. cultural projects
He warned that opposition to the
whole w. P. A. program has been
cloaked by the attacks on the arts
projects. THE w. p A." he said,
lis a design for living for millions
OF men and women who had no
other way of living. 1t is an enor-
nous undertaking which has been
executed with extraordinary admin
istrative ability"
The speaker blamed raids by local
politicians" for the rare exceptions
to the high standards of integrity in
w. P. A. administrations"
Others Defend Program.
Others defending the arts projects
and the whole w. P. A. program in
cluded DR.. Carroll Daugherty, who
commended the historical value of
w. P. A. research projects; former
Senator Smith w. Brookhart Of
Iowa, who discussed the economic
need for the program, and Mrs.
Nina Collier of the National League
OF Women Shoppers.
The committee, by resolution,
pledged to support socially useful
work in the public service for all
competent persons unable to obtain
reasonable private employment"
Conderhning the Woodrum relief
bill as inadequate to the needs of
100000 unemployed, the resolution
said the measure, under the pretext
OF economy, would cripple the entire
w. P. A. program.
Evening star., 1939-06-27

Inc disturbance that was south Of Nova
scotia Monday morning is advancing slow
~ eastward, being central about 400 miles
south by east OF Sable Island Nova Scotia,
with lowest pressure about 90 so inches
another disturbance is advancing eastward
oV eyer HUDSON Bay, Port Harrison. Quebec,
29gQ inches; with a narrow trough ex-
ter, tending southwarrd and southwestward to
oklahoma, Oklahoma City. 2994 inches
Another disturbance is advancing eastward
eyer oU western South Dakota. Rapid City.
Newfoundland and Labrador Belle isle.
newfoundland, 30.2S inches, with a wedge
sxtendlng southwestward to Southern QUE
bee, Father Point. 3Q,22 inches, and thence
Ssou1shiJssouMthWestward Sa1sirs to the -Carolinas,
VTelsatively high over the Upper Mississippi
vaiiey. La crosse Wis. 3002 inches and
on the North Pacific Coast North Head
WSaSh Wash 200. 1902 inches; During the last "a
have occurred in the Southern Rocky Noun
tain WnT region Kansas. the Middle Mississippi
portions of the South Atlantic States
ana North Dakota. Temperatures have
risen In the Northern Rocky Mountain re-
zion and the Southern Plateau