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Evening star., 1939-05-12
D. A. r. Committee
Opposes Admission
OF REFUGEE Children

Action taken in opposition to the
Wagner Rogers bill for the admis-
sion of 10000 German refugee chill
dren into this country has been
announced by the State Executive
Committee of the District Daughters
OF the American Revolution, which
met this week.
!, Introduced by Mrs. Frank H.
Towner, state chairman of National
Defense Through Patriotic Educa-
ton, a resolution, adopted by the
committee, stated the committee is
"unalterably opposed to increasing
the. present enormous German
quota" and added: 1T we want Ger
man children, they may easily come
within the quota of Germany within
year."
The resolution also stated that
European refugees are a European
problem, just as our IL 900 900 unem-
ployed are our problem, to be reme-
Evening star., 1939-05-12

standing national problems today
farm relief, old-age pensions and
jobs for the unemployed.
I'VE must guarantee the Amer
ican farmer the American market
at the American price" he declared.
1--WE must sponsor a Federal old
age pension for every old person of
a certain age and we must sponsor
a permanent public works program
that will furnish employment to
all unemployed, able-bodied people
in the United States"
The means to carry out these
projects could be obtained by tax
ing tax-exempt securities, the Sem
ator said There are over $50, ,00O.-
100000 worth of wealth which is
not paying its fair share of taxes, -
he stated by imposing taxes
upon these securities the Govern
ment can bring about fairer dis
tribution of the national income"
Senator Lee was introduced by
Mrs. Claude Pepper, first vice presi-
dent, who presided in the absence
Of Mrs. D. Tucker Brown.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Senator Lee
In Favor of
Third Term
Declares Greatest
Opposition Is From
Big Business

A frank declaration for third
term for President Roosevelt and
suggestions for planks including
farm relief. old-age pensions and
jobs for the unemployed as part of
the Democratic platform campaign
of 1910 were made by Senator Josh
Lee of Oklahoma in an address be-
fore the Woman's National Demo-
cratic Club at the final weekly din
ner of the season last night at club
headquarters.
The only argument against a
third term for the President is that
it has never been done, he declared,
adding that no progress would ever
have been made had the great lead
ers of the world yielded to the argu-
ment that 1T has never been done.
Admitting there was no assurance
that the Democrats would nominate
President Roosevelt for third term
or that the President would accept
the nomination, Senator Lee de-
clared that unless President were
elected who is in sympathy with the
New Deal program much of the
great work started will be undone
and our efforts to place human
rights above property rights will be
lost"
Declaring that big business was
the greatest opponent to re-electing
the President, the Senator asked.
What corporation would turn out
it's most able executive after eight
years of service?"
The argument that third term
would give dangerous dictatorial
powers to a President was discounted
by Senator Lee, who declared his
tory shows that in the case of Gov
ernors of States, who are permitted
to hold Office for several terms,
their political power decreases the
longer they are in office" The vote
of the people," he continued. "is ade-
quate safeguard against dictator
Ship
Nose of the reforms and legisla-
ton of the administration would
have been adopted whether the Re-
publicans or Democrats had been in
power, Senator Lee declared, adding,
IF the Republicans could win in
1910, they would take these Demo-
cratic accomplishments, give them
a new coat of paint and put the ele-
phant insignia on the radiator and
claim it was the 1910 streamline Re-
publican model"
Senator Lee named as three out
Evening star., 1939-05-12

died before we increase any immi-
grafton quota, import more de-
pendents or persons who will soon
add to our employment problem.
The committee also voted to ex-
pend $3.50 toward jubilee project
for 1910 in honor OF Miss Lillian
Chenoweth, state regent.
The annual pilgrimage to Arling-
ton by Constitution Chapter will be
Sunday at 2 pm, when a wreath
will be placed on the Tomb Of the
Unknown Soldier. The chaplain and
bugler from Fort Myer will assist the
regent in the service.
Election of officers will be held at
the meeting Tuesday at 8 pm. at the
Grafton Hotel.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Officers Elected

The following officers have been
elected to head the Washington sec
ton of the National Council of
Jewish Juniors: President, Goldie
Bachman; first vice president. Mae
Ponorow; second vice president,
Charlotte Borasky; recording secre-
tary, Sylvia Jonisch; corresponding
secretary, Rita Hearn; financial Sec
retary, Anne Bachman; treasurer
Edith Cooper; auditor, Dorothy
Volner; chaplain. Sadie Grossman;
Board of Directors. Bernice Beren-
son. Lee Blum, Irene Hirsch, Celia
Lisensky, Bella Schwartz, Tobie
Steinberg and Rose Zuckerman. The
delegate to the national convention
to be held in Chicago in october, is
Mae Ponorow. Officers will be in
stalled in June.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Beta Sigma Phi

New officers, recently elected by
Delta Chapter, Beta Sigma Phi, are:
Emma Wooten, president; Margaret
Dooley, vice president; Miss Virginia
M. Bell. recording secretary; Miss
Opha Thompson, corresponding Sec
retary: Miss Agnes Zmora, treasurer,
and Miss Mary Karlson, historian.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Wants War Debts Repaid

Representative Dirksen, Repub-
lican, of Illinois introduced legis-
lation yesterday to create 13-man
war debt commission to study means
by which the 1000, 10000 owed
to the United States might be paid.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-03-25
NEGRO HEALTH WEEK

Within few days we will celebrate one Of the
most significant weeks of the year, week that has
been dedicated to Negro Health. Despite frequent
criticisms of the term Negro Health as if to say
health differed from Others we do find that we have
many problems of health peculiar to us simply be-
cause are forced to live in more squalor and un-
healthy environments than any other racial group.
To deny this is to ignore facts that stare in the
face wherever we go among people in this coun-
try.
Negro Health Week is significant particularly now
that told that the general white population is
on the decline and that in several decades we will
have become nation of old men and women with
fewer and fewer children. Those among us who take
heart with the rising Negro birth rate, however,
have learned that infant mortality is extremely severe
among us and that social and congenita diseases are
manning our stock. If the Negro populations rise
is to keep pace and possibly surpass that of the
whites, Negro health demands more and more at
tention.
We cannot afford to become a physically weak
people nor can we permit the squalid conditions in
which we live to continue to take the great toll of
lives We have to preach health and better our envi-
rOnments wherever possible. This year the Brewster
City Council is sponsoring a Baby Health Contest
which is free to all Detroit children for the sole pur-
pose Of emphasizing the Importance of greater health
precautions and to draw attention to those factors
essential for our general health We commend the
Council for its foresight.
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reflect maturity OF thought and pre-
ciSion OF style but do not seem the
work OF an inspired poet A num-
Der are written in dialogue, but
these l believe are not his best
work. liked especially Loves
Tangle" and "A Babe is a Babe"
The next two books, Bout Cullud
Folkes" and Fast Steppin' one
by colored and one by a white
woman. are an interesting contrast.
Miss Turner granddaughter OF the
insurrectionist, Nat Turner, has
written chiefly in dialect, and all
OF the poems by Mrs. Grady are
in dialect. Strangely enough, Mrs
Grady has captured the verve and
spontaneity OF those southern Ne
groes OF whom she writes and Miss
Turner fails miserably in this re-
gard. The excellent way in which
Mrs. Grady relates the humorous
or tragic thoughts and actions of
the Negro women OF her poems is
excellent. Her psychology is sure
and her dialect realistic.
Miss Turner on the other hand
writes poems WHICH do not ring
as true. | think her dialect poems
are inferior 10 the others she has
included in this collection, but there
is little that is original in her
work.
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FAR EAST
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she IS improving Siowly' out must
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I'nP,uVlls ana ne wishes 10 thank the
heIshooIs LOT tne kinaness EXTENDED
MN uuLins ms lllness. ne also wished
70 eN'ehu nus thahKs TO the East Lake
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Teaching Group Visits
BOrdentOwn School

BORDENTOWN. N. j., March "a
The Manual Training school here
was host Thursday 70 approximate
ly IFS members Of the Ocean coun-
ty Principals council and teachers
in the schools Of Ocean county, in
New Jersey.
The group, one OF the largest
yet entertained by the school, was
conducted on a tour of inspection
OF the buildings and equipment at
Bordentown. The entire school en-
tertained the council and teachers
in an assembly program with Sc
lections. by the school band. glee
club and quartet, and several spiri-
tuals by the student body, under
the direction OF Fred J. Work, d.
rector Of the schools music de-
partment.
Following the assembly program
the group gathered in the dining
rooms OF the domestic science de-
pariment where it held its meeting
and was served dinner.
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Brewster CITY
FLASHES


At this time of year everything
begins to take on. newer forms of
life, even our little Brewster City
is beginning to bud out and show
the effect that spring has upon it.
Mrs. Semis has just opened a con-
venient fish and poultry market,
an up-to-date tailor shoppe as well
as cozy little beauty salon has now
come into existence. MT. BarthweTI
has opened 4 lovely drag and cafe
terra on the corner of Benton.
In our little city we have few
i'll and shut in friends who deserve
a mentioning: Mrs. Pearl Wilson,
1924 Rivard is confined in Parkside
hospital; Mrs. Isabella Mcdonald.
625 Mack, has just returned from
the hospital and iS reported improv-
ing, and Mrs Henry fairfield, 1850
Mack, is convalescing from an at
tack of the fp We all wish them a
very speedy Fecovery.
Expect your weekly copy OF the
Michigan Chronicle every Thursday
so that you, too. may read the hap
penings Of Brewster City.
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DOROTHY THOMPSON

Last Friday evening at Olympia some fifteen thou
sand Detroiters came together in mass meeting
dedicated to Racial Tolerance, Negroes Jews, Poles
and all the racial elements in city were made to
realize that our democracy cannot endure without
the broad tolerance of each racial group for every
other Dorothy Thompson declared that democracy
and our attachment to its principles should be the
common denomination for all the races in our land
despite their varied surface differences. We are all
one in democratic state which must surely suffer
when we emphasize rather than minimize those diff
ferences between us.
In America there are thirteen million Negroes and
five million Jews who constitute our countrys two
largest minorites. What they have meant to Ameri-
ca what they have meant its progress no historian
will dare to tell Events abroad have touched our
shores and the question of minority groups has been
brought into vivid relief How secure the minor
tiles of America? VIII they be further oppressed
Will Hitlers faith in might makes right" be taken
up in our own land? Neither Negro nor Jew can be
free from these fears in world where history has
shown that anything can happen.
As was indicated by the speakers at Olympia our
salvation lies in a renewed and vigorous attachment
to the principles of our democracy. We minority
peoples cannot long live and prosper Under system
of government that denies us freedom and opportun
ties Racial tolerance is the keystone in the demo-
cratic way of life way of life by which man is re-
garded as an individual with certain inalienable
rights rather than just another CADET that keeps
the State together Tolerance and respect for each
other are our moral as well as civic obligations.
We feel that tolerance however, among the races
of America must become something more than a
mere state of mind. 1t must be an active force. We
must fight intolerance and those forces which stir
up racial antagonisms. All true sons of democracy
must fight in every conceivable way such organiza-
lions as the Ku Klux Khan, the Daughters of the
American Revolution and the Black Legion Every
political demagogue who rises by stirring racial pref
udices must be silenced, Every form of racial dis
elimination in high places or low places must be
eradcated and every honest American who believes
in democracy must help We agree with Dorothy
Thompson and all those who plead for greater toler
but we insist that that tolerance lead to action
and good works without which cannot expect pro-
gress 1t is not enough to believe. We Americans
must also act.
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Book REVIEWS
Read More Learn More

Negro Voices" edited by Beatrice
Murphy. Henry Harrison, pub
fisher. 10 Fourth avenue, New
York City; 1898; $50; 17S PIP,
Collected Poems by Joseph S.
Cotter Sr. Henry Harrison, pub
Usher; 1898; $3.50; IS PIP.
Bout Cullud Folkses" by Lucy Mae
Turner. Henry Harrison, pub
Usher; 1898; $3.50; g. PIP.
Free Steppin" by Kate McAlpin
Grady. Mathis, Van Mort and Co.,
Dallas, Texas; 1888; Sl.50; SO PIP.
Reviewed by GERTRUDE MARTIN
The three volumes listed above
represent a large part Of the poetry
output Of Race authors in 1898. Most
OF the poems represented here are
immature and with little Of that
inspiration which characterizes the
true poet There is little or nothing
original in theme or in the treat
ment of the haekneyed themes;
most OF the poetry is lyrical deal
ing with love requited or un-
requited, or with night and nature
treated in conventional fashion.
In her preface" to Negro
Voices" Miss Murphy writes: With
al, and with proper consideration
for the hadicaps facing their auth
ors. we believe they fall not too
far below the accepted standard"
Although We will grant as Miss
Murphy points out, that it is diff
cult for the striving Race author
to reach the ear OF a publisher. we
can not grant the handicaps she
mentions above Nest Of the authors
included in this anthology have had
college training and the younger
ones are in high school. Certainly
the handicaps OF race, and all that
entails do exist, but aren't suffer-
ings and oppression the stuff OF
which great writers have been
made?
To choose among over 80 authors
many Of whom are represented by
only one poem, is difficult. Those
whose work liked best were John
Burton, Frank Marshall Davis, Clara
Haywood and Beatrice Murphy. or
those who are represented by one
poem | remember Helen A. John
son with The Roaring Third" and
Edna Shaw with The Little
Helper"
One is struck with the lack OF
social consciousness in the majority
OF these young poets. We would not
have them obsessed by the race
problem, the economic situation or
world crises but the poet writes
what is in his heart and from the
evidence OF Negro Voices" most
OF these writers are escapists or
have little awsreness OF the tense
world in which they live. Miss
Murphy and Mr. Harrison, editor
and publisher respectively, are to
be commended on their enterprise
in bringing the work OF young Race
poets to the fore but we believe
more selection might have been
exercised and some Of the poets
left 10 mature while longer.
Joseph s Coiter. principal OF the
S. COleridge-Taylor colored school
in Louisville. KY. is serving his
fiftieth year in the school system
OF that city. II one may judge by
his poems Mr. Cotter is not in
favor with the new teachings Of
his younger colleagues. His poems
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WESTSIDE DETROIT
BY BETTE ELLINGTON 5242 Ninewood Avenue
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! COOPERATION
Speaking OF cooperation in CONVEX
sstion few days ago with learned
and experienced person Of high inte-
leet. who has travelled extensively IN
several countries, our subject ran into
cooperation.
This person said, Cooperation is
Thing that must be watched that 1t
does not become operation" Those
spoken words brought to my mind
D.. the view OF an important issue:
] With so many. there Is always pres
ent the thought of cooperation. when
1t IS to work for the good or his end
OF putting over a project of his own
interest. At this time the proposal
OF cooperation Is taken up and pushed
with great strength until his end is
successfully met then the associs-
ton becomes operation instead of CO.
operation.
A dictionary definition for cooper
I alton. the act OF working together
jointly. aid, assist. help, plan. per-
form. befriend. approve, encourage.
operation. with the CO. left off means
TO produce 10 a certain effect. True
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/ otueied 10 DC pIesent a. ne qusI -
conference Msteh ~ 70 DC P'esenu'H
10 the presiding e4oei'
PAsioh AWAY
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present VINO nave nor peen aole 10 set
to chureh Tor me past three or -FOUR
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uillotf'
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usheFs, many visitors were present
,hroueh-out me Gay, Dr. l. Love
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BOARD oil me National convention OF
Chleaeo. limos was speaker al pom
morning ana evening serVlces' HIS
'upjeet foF the morning. service was;
MY kindness; and IN the evening
an actress on nome missions
Dr. LoYelaee' rev ana MIS- Martin
were hlgh'y entertained IN tne nome
OF Deacon ana MIS- hen "iIlains H.
Ross OF 81 stephen A. NJ. Z, church
ana MIS- thomson OF hihg solomon
were among me visitors,
ST JAMES C. NJ. f. CHURCH
hev' VIM. crane, pastor
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The prevailing tendency in the Ne
gro church is 10 spend too much tim,
on the discussion OF theological sub
jeets, dogmas and creed and alto
gether too little time on the problems
Of daily living and the practical ques-
lions which make up the actual con-
duct OF Negroes. Too many Of our
preachers discuss 'the Inspiration Of
the Bible. the Trinity. modes OF bap-
tism. virgin. birth and the atonement
while the practical needs Of Negro
/ life so neglected and vice and cor
| ruplon perches on the churchs very
door step.
/ In our large urban centerS the very
reighborhoods in which our churches
/ hold forth, are swept by a plague OF
immortality which jeopardizes the
purity OF our womanhood and the
future Of our youth. Crime and open
prostitution flourish. sickness and dis
ease run rampant. our. streets and
alleys are piled high with filth: UNI
scruolous merchants rob our people
While they dump upon them second
rate goods for ftst rate prices.
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A wonderful party was held at the
home Of Mrs. Viola Bray. The hostess
was Mrs. Orella follower, and includ-
ed among those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. John Hopewell, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Fondren, Willis Price. Mr. and
Mrs. Cletus Roman, Harry Wallace,
Charles Williams. Clayton Henry,
Hildrs Steele, Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin
Knox. Miss Lefty Davis. Al Roman
and many others. The party was one
of the highlights OF the winter sea-
son. and all are agreed it was one
OF the most successful. Refreshments
were served. and dancing and games
completed the evening Many were
the compliments heard. Everyone ex-
pressed the extraordinary time that
was had and reluctantly babe fare
we'll to theit hostess
Rumors Heard Here and There.
Senior Brooks, alias stiff Fingers, !"
engaged in a no-decision bout with
Bob Gibson, the town drunk, one day
last week; We wonder what condition
stiff Fingers" was in that he could
not beat an inebriated man.
Beautiful winifred Ponce was seen
weighing herself, complaining because
Of so-called excess weight. We dls-
agree with her on that question
Mozelle Keaton was heard to bet
that she would lose 10 pounds come
Wednesday t22l, We really don't think
she will do so.
What young man initiated c. K. quits
his lady friend every Friday. Just be-
fore payday? Did you get your house
coat for your birthday. Lucille2 We
know that you didn't get that big box
Of candy. for C. X boosted Of eating
it up, during his periodical angry
spells. We hear all the dope;
most OF it is told to US unsuspect-
ingly.
Charles Williams requests Al Roman
TO send his sun Dial" clock back
by Sanford the next time San is in
the Motor City. It seems to me that
Charles could so around 10 the place
OF business of AIS and see him and
bring it back with him the next time
he goes 10 the city. How about it
Charles?
Drop out Packard street way some
time soon. and watch the antics of
the younger clique al times it's dis
graceful. The lack of recreational
places have lot to do with this de-
plorable condition. This column will
make an investigation of conditions
as they are and present them to the
public. Keep up with this column and
we promise you il our inves tigations
are successful. we will tell all.
The Don Juan in the Ford coupe
resented the item concerning his fire.
quent visits over Beakes street way.
He is a failure as a fighter. and also
as a LOVER
We don't see much OF the LADY,
killer, Harry Wallace; has his yellow
basket" wised up to his strayings2
We failed 10 congratulate you David
Keston. on your recent business tri-
umph. We do so now.
cletus Roman and willis Price Won
dered what was deleted from the
column a few weeks ago concerning
them. 1t is a shame. really. for had
it remained, they wouldn't had TO
wonder.
Claude Fields is trekking out Green
street way quite frequently. now-s-
days what is out that way Claude,
shall tell all"
bic Chris" tells me he has some
equipment for sale, reasonable. and
wishes to dispose OF it to a Race
man.