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The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22
BOSTON LABOR HITS
BIASED TEXTBOOKS

Boston, July 10 (CNA) Three
history textbooks will be reviewed
by a committee of teachers on
complaint of the Boston local of
the American Federation of Teach
ers.
Speaking for the union, School
Committeeman Joseph Lee charg-
ed "Muzzey's American History"
was unfair to labor, prejudicial and
pro-Ku Klux Khan; "The History
of the United States" by Mace and
Beaards, was unfair to labor, and
"Our United States" by W.B.
G~uitteau, was anti-labor, melted
race p~rejuriee and was prone to
jingoism.
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49,, IENpY CoEEND1oNr
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. HENRY GREENWICH .aIa

Paris, as you all know. is the
capital OF France, and one of the
most beautiful cities IN the world.
sam and Betsey we're up and
dressed early, eager to be out;
even their little dog, Gyp, was ex-
cited. Mr.. Van poked his head into
the room, shouted a happy good
morning aud promised them a
grand surprise.
DO you think your legs are rest
ed enough for a long walk-all
the way to the other side of the
iity?" be asked.
Yes, yes" they both cried, we
ian walk to the moon"
We'll, it won't be as far as the
moon, but I'm going to take you
10 a place just as strange. with a
very odd name. It's called the Rue
Druot, where all the auctioneers
and secondhand dealers of Paris
sell every kind of thing you can
imagine
Soon they were off. Gyp trotting
beside Betsey. shifting the strange
air of Paris.
After a while they began to hear
strange noises, queer singsong
cries and shouts of all kinds. for
the fact is, they We're coming to
the secondhand market.
All around the square were piled
the oldest assortment of things, old
chairs. old pianos, old rugs, dishes
and plates of every description.
while each dealer shrieked and hol-
Tered at the top of his lungs to
attract every %passer-by.
Sam and Betsey we're thrilled,
for neither had ever seen anything
like it. Much amused they walked
awhile through the crowds, when,
at a booth, Sam spied a music-box
for sale for a few cents. He bought
1t at once, and promised to play all
its tunes that night at the hotel.
Just then Betsey touched Sans
arm, and pointed towards a little
girl, singing as she walked along
the street.
"A little street singer" said Mr..
Van, and he dropped a few coppers
In the cup she carried.
Lets talk to her." cried Betsey.
Sam asked her what her name
was and learning It to be Nam
nette, told her at once about the
music-box he had just bought.
"Oh, but / know IT," cried Nam
nette, eve seen It often, l can sing
every single tune II plays. Come
to my house iust of the market, we
ear play Il there"
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

will show the tremendous contrib
utions the gifted Negro people
have made to American life.
Crispus Attacks Day will be Of
ficially celebrated at the Fair, as
well as the anniversary of Freder-
ieks Douglass birth. One of the fine
treasurers to be exhibited in the
Hall of Negro Achievement will
be Augusta Savage's statue of
Frederick Douglass.
Among the other art treasures
to be displayed will be a famous
painting by the great Negro ar
tist, H. Q. Tanner. which will be
loaned to the exhibit by Henry C.
Kraft, executive secretary of the
Harlem Y.
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past they cannot fathom. The sto-
~ is 0 fthe older youths and their
young pal who touches in them
fine emotions they hadn't dreamed
they possessed and his tragic death
while the three hobo from Oregon
to Denver. Ed relates the narrative
in the first person.
The result is gripping realism
Of the s~ihardboiled' school. In this
it is akin to Gains "The Post
man Always Ring Twice" and Nc
Intyre's "Steps Going Down." It's
a story snatched from life itself
and so powerful as to defy being
laid aside until all 267 pages have
been read.
Mr.. Attway has written q book
which most of our famous white
writer's might be proud to author.
He has a natural easy style, e
economy of words a flair for strong
imagery and the ability to make
his characters come to life on the
printed page. At %, this brilliant
young writer, a graduate of the
University of Illinois who has done
a stretch of hoboing, looms as ont
of the brightest new stars on the
whole literary horizon.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22
NOVEL BY NEW NEGRO
WRITER is OF REALIST,
HARDBOILED SCHOOL

By Frank Marshall Davis for AMP
Most novelists of ordinary
means dream of making enough
money by sales of their published
work to spend all their time at
writing. Negro novelists seldom
reach this goal because their work
for the most part, appeals to a
rather select group of readers.
William Attaway, young author
of "Let Me Breathe Thunder"
published last Friday by Double
day Doran, has the best chance
of obtaining financial success of
any recent novelist of color.
Mr.. Attaway's book is not a
Negro book, for its main charac-
ters are not Negroes nor does it
deal with interraeial problems. 1t
is the kind of book that could have
been written by a white person
with sympathy for the minor col
ared characters who are in the
story, and represents one of the
few times in America literary his
tory in which a Negro has for
gotten race and written If his
Caucasian brother.
Let Me Breathe Thunder" tears
a period of several weeks from the
lives of Step and Ed. two depres-
sion youths drifting from town to
town in the West. With them is
Hi-Boy, a Mexican lad of 10 whose
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Together they presently we're
climbing a long flight of stairs.
Just as they reached the top, a
door opened and an old French
woman. amazed at the sight of
them, cried.
What have you here, my little
Nannette, a little brown dog and
ah, some friends. too. Bring them
up for they are welcome"
"0h. such nice new friends,
grandmere.' laughed Nannette.
and they have just bought the
music-box | love so much. After
lunch We are going to play it."
In no time at all they were seated
around the table drinking plates of
onion soup and eating fat slices of
bread, while Gyp loudly tapped
up a bowl of milk. 1t was all very
jolly, The little singer told them
of her life In Paris.
Sometimes, when business is
dull, the friendly marketmen sing
with me, but mercy on me. let a
customer appear and their singing
stops like magic. But come. SAM
my, play the new music-box, we
must hear it,"
Sam touched the spring, and song
after song came out of it, and gay
songs they were. too. But alas, the
little box couldn't play for ever ard
it seemed an end to bliss when Nam
nette declared she must stop sing
ing, for she had sung every song
three times.
Mr.. Van looked at his watch. it
was time to depart. Amid laugh
ing farewells they prepared to leave
but not before Betsey and Sam
both insisted that Nannette keep
the music box.
ut really belongs to you" Betsey
said" and we never could think OF
1t playing its tunes without you
singing them. too"
Gathering up their things ready
to leave, to everyone's dismay Gvp
was nowhere to be seen. They
searched the tiny garnet and all
the halls Of the house. but Gyp was
there, anywhere. But they did
find the front door standing wide
open, and then they sadly realized
Gyp must have decided to do a little
sightseeing on his own account.
IL was a sad ending to a happy
day, as u travellers climbed
aboard a bus to go home.
Don't be discouraged" said Mr..
van, tomorrow Is another day.
Wen be up bright ana aarIx arx
look for him everywhs-1.-
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a JEWS WHO FAIL TO
LIST RACE, JAILED

Milan, Italy, July 13 (CNA)-
Tw~enty-four of thirty-three Jews
tried for not having declared their
Jewish blood under the race law
passed last November We're under
sentences this week varying from
tweBty days in Jail and 500 fines
to eight days in jail and $50 fines.
Nine We're aquitted.
The thirty-three were the first
of 200 who will be tried.
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should-without cooperation,
very little can be accomplish
ed. In all probability if you
had a new active leader among
you women, you could help the
Pastor accomplish his aim. At
any rate do your part, and
pray that the others will do
likewise. In time a new church
will be built.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

7. f. HI am a devoted admit
er Of your column. | am just II
and have "boy trouble. The pro-
blem l am terribly worried about
is kissing boys. | have a very good
reputation IS a good girl" and
I'd like TO keep it. But when a
friend comes to the house and asks
me for a goodnight kiss, Pm a
fraid to hurt his feelings by re-
fusing or slapping his face if he
insists. Is it considered "cheap"
for a girl to accept g kiss from
a boy she likes? PERPLEXED.
Ans: Good night kisses
are perfectly respectable and
you needn't worry about jeo
pardizing your reputation by
indulging in one or two. This
doesn't mean that you should
start a "slobbering contest
every time you say good night
to a boy. A good night kiss
and a pat on the cheek will
hold your admirers for you.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

- 1890 ~
sity Of North Carolina Press $1.00
lobe Is one Of the most delight
full of the new children's books,
for Negro children, now on the
market. Written by Stella Gentry
Sharpe, a school teacher of North
Carolina, the book is rich with WV
id descriptions of the real treas
ures of southern rural life. The
story, presented in primer form,
is concerned with the everyday life
of a real family, observed by the
author over a period of time. 1t
is the family of lobe, a six-year-
old colored boy who lives on a
farm in North Carolina.
Tobe's is a large fmily. There
are the little twins, five years old,
the big twins, aged nine, Tobe's
big brother, Raeford, II, his mo-
ther and father and his two oil
der sisters, who "ean bake cakes
and sweet potato pies and have a
beautiful flower garden" Each
member of the family is interest
ing, and the group activities +
portrayed in simple sentences, cas-
lily understood by the young child.
The child will captivate children
for it is filled with wee reader
interest.
In addition to the fascinating
story of lobe and his family, the
book is filled with charming photo
graphs, the best I've seen in a
book of this type and they, alone,
are worth the price Of this little
volume. The photographs, display
ing lobe, his family, the children's
pes, the community school and
church the fields where the family
earns a living, the brook where To-
be and his brothers fish and wade
and many other typical rural
scenes, are as realistic and natural
as photographs could well be. Most
of them, says a photographer, Char
les Farrell, were taken when the
children were unaware they were
being snapped and we may well
believe this for they imposed and
perfect for the reason.
"T'obe" is educatioal as well as
interesting and entertaining, por-
traying as it does different har-
vests in the chapters: Harvest
ing Wheat" "In the Tobacco Field"
Harvesting Sweet Potatoes,"
picking Cotton" and so on; ex-
planning the work of the cotton
gin; how molases is made and
how to catch a posum. lobe and
his brothers have fun too, fun in
everyday living with extra special
celebrations on Halloween, Thanks
giving and Christmas. The book
is also interspersed with homely
philosophy and I'd just like to
share this last paragraph with
you. 1t is entitled "What Brings
Good Luck" and reads as follows:
zone day last summer we went
to see Aunt Susan. Her apple
trees we're full of apples. l sad,
81 am glad you have many apples.
We do not have many apples on our
trees" She asked, Did you hang
horse shoes on your apple trees ?"
"You should hang horse shoes
in your apples trees if you want
many apples" she said. We went
home and told mother. She said,
"The horse shoes did not make the
apples grow. Work made them
grow. You will have to dig around
our trees and spray them"
We did, too. Now We have many
apples"
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22
PAUL robson SIGNS
AS JOHN HENRY STAR

New York, July 10 (CNA)-
Paul Robson, famous actor and
one of the top ranking concert
stars, will return to the New York
stage next season as star of the
Roark Branford-Jaques Wolfe
musical drama, "John Henry" Sig
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

A. G.-Have been wanting to
go farming for a long time.
VIII I be successful in another
year to do so?
Ans: Indeed you could. In
the meantime study up on
Agriculture and all materials
pertaining to farming and it
will profit you greatly.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

H. MIN out of a job and am
thinking of going to California
and wish to know what you think
about it?
Ans: The idea is all right
but you must have money to
make a trip of this kind. Get
out and get employment and
save a little money. When you
get something ahead, then
make the change to California
if you feel you would prefer
to live out there.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

A. n.-Dear Abbe-I am writ
ing about our church. Tell me if
it will ever grow and will we ever
build a new church? What is
wrong?
Ans: The chief difficulty
seems to be that the Members
do not cooperate as they
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

N0TB.-YoHr question win be analysed free In this column sMy
when you include a clipping of this column and sign your full name.
6iuhdafs and correct address to your letter. For a PrvGfs Reply"...
send only 25c and a stamped enveopesfor my latest AsTR0LOGY
READING covering yoar brfhdate; also a free letter OF advice
anayzing three Questions. Explain your problems clearly and con-
fine your questions to those within the scope of logical reasoning.
SEND YoUR LETTER To-
Able WALLACE. P.O. BOX II. ATLANTA, GA.
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E. L. G.-There is a man who
wants me TO marry him since ]
left my husband. Tell me if ]
should marry him or take the old
horse back again?
Ans: No. Don't consider
taking your husband back
when you know that you don't
love him. Get your divorce and
stay single awhile. If at a
later date you are sure that
you are in love again, then
get married.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

r. T.-Dear Professor: VIII
you please tell me if the woman
left my sample case with will pay
me for the comb?
Ans: Why should she? Sre
didn't get your comb.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

d. NJ. B.-Should / give this
letter to the boy l wrote it to and
what would he do?
Ans: He would feel flatter-
ed somewhat-but it wouldn't
make a very big impression on
him. The majority of young
people go through this stage
of writing notes to one an
other-he will keep it a secret
as he had done many times be-
fore.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

r. T. M have an awfnlly
nice boy friend and he will do
anything | ask of him. He is try
ing to get me to marry him and
l am afraid he won't be as nice
to me after VIC are married. Tel
me if he is really in love with
me?
Ans: He's nuts" about you
and you know it too. Most
likely you two will be married
within a few months time
and | firmly believe that you
will get along swell. If you
strive as hard to make him
happy as he is to make you
happy, then your worries will
be few.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

Hollywood, July 70 Don't look for
The seand-@I mean secret bean
spillin' at the start of the OF Kol-
yum. I have to dish up the leg t
innate news first, SO just read on
down and you will find the scan
er-I mean lid lifting off private
lives at the end. Just stick to this
column, week after week, and it
will stand by you.-Some time soon
III tell you what each Of the sep
ia stars gets paid in Hollywood.
They don't even know that | have
the figures. I'll tell you about
their home life, their love life,
their foods, fancies, superstitions,
good traits, and faults.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

Harry M. Popkin, executive pro-
dncer of Million Dollar Produe-
tions, is on the way back from
New York, after a very eneour-
aging tour over the eastern field.
The trip was in line with the ee-
menting of the new deal recent
~ made with tle Sack Amuse-
ment enterprises which now has
the exclusive distribution of Mil
lien Dollars all-colored cast films.
Meanwhile Mr.. Sack has been COW
ering territory in Tennessee, and
other southern states before head
ing for Chicago. Harley Harding,
who has been operating the Mil
lion Dollars branch office in Chi
cago, will return hortly to the
home office. Meanwhile Director
Leo C. Popkin, and unit superyis-
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22
NEW BOOKS
"TObe

By Stella Gentry Sharpe, Univer-
sity Of North Carolina Press $1.00
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Newmeyer 10 0fficiate
Al Father-Son Dinner

Alvin L. Newmeyer, Washington
attorney, will officiate as master of
ceremonies for the 10th annual
father-and-so banquet of Wash
ington Hebrew Congregation. &C
cording to an announcement by
Sidney Lust, general chairman of
the affair
The banquet is to be held April
% in the Mayhower Hotel.
The Rev. Maurice Sheehy of
Catholic University, Canon Anson
Phelps Stokes of Washington Ca
thedral and Maj. Ernest w. Brown,
superintendent of police, have &C
cepted invitations, Mr.. Lust said
yesterday.
Not to be outdone by the men and
boys, the Sisterhood of Washington
Hebrew Congregation. through Mrs
E. R. Haas, has announced that it
will sponsor a mother-and- -daugh-
ter party on the same night at 2400
Sixteenth street NV.
The father-and-son banquet will
be featured by vaudeville entertain
ment from downtown theaters and
the Johnny j. Jones Exposition.
which is to be in the city at the
time. The youngsters also will have
opportunity to meet their favorite
Washington Redskin professional
football players.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Co|ored Lights Used
To Aid Deaf in
Learning infection
Pitch Of Voice Acts
On EIectro-Moenetic
Tuning Forks

BY doing tricks with rows of little
colored lights, deaf children may
hope to acquire near-normal speech
according to A. E. Coyne, South
African inventor. who demonstrated
his voice-pitch indicator yesterday
to group of teachers of the deaf
in the Gallaudet College chapel.
Mr.. Coyne, lecturer at Cape
Technical College, Cape Town, be-
came interested II years ago in the
problems of those who devote them
selves. to aiding persons unable to
hear. He conducted experiments at
the Sheffield School for the Deaf in
England, as well as in South Africa
and out of them has come the ap-
paratuS that he brought to Kendall
Green yesterday.
Two Rows of Bulbs.
Standard models of the invention
consist of large black box on the
front of which are two vertical rows
OF colored lights. separated by a
surface upon which the instructor
may write with chalk directions to
subjects. One row of bulbs is for
male voices, the other for the higher
tones of women and children.
Within the box is an array of
-magnetically actuated tun-
Ing forks of varying frequencies.
AS the subject speaks through a
mlcrophone, his voice is translated
into electrical impulses which op-
crate the tuning forks correspond
Ing to the pitch of his utterances.
These, in turn, affect the various
lights.
After some experimentation, Mr..
Coyne declares, the deaf user is
able to associate particular vocal
efforts with particular lights, and,
after extended practice, usually
finds himself capable of controlling
infections through watching the
lamps. "Breathiness. which causes
the lights to flicker often may be
overcome by the pupils concentrat-
Ing on producing a constant glow.
Immune to HarmOnics.
In the interest of simplicity, the
inventor has designed the indicator
to be immune to harmonics. 1t re-
acts only to any one of a series
of fundamentals spaced two semi
tones apart. If it succeeds in as
sisting deaf persons to control the
ups and downs of their voices. it
has served sufficient purpose, Mr..
COyne feels. The harmonics con-
troll the quality of voice as dis
tinguished from its pitch.
Mrs. Coyne, a teacher of the deaf
At the Dominican School in Cape
Town. emphasized at the demon
stration yesterday that only through
weeks of practice could substantial
progress be achieved. Several of
the children from Kendall School
who used the apparatus proved
adept at linking their utterances
with behavior of the lights.
Mr.. Coyne also exhibited his voice
pitch indicator Friday night at the
Washington Society for the Hard
Of Hearing.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

will be engaged four or five months
in the work.
Each of the contract dredges is
capable of supplying a half to three
quarters Of million cubic yards of
fill a month for the airport. A small
Government dredge also is at work.
With the three dredges working, the
United States district engineers
office said the capacity will be close
to 100000 cubic yards of fill per
month. A third contract dredge is
anticipated to arrive in June, it was
said.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
To Repeat Passion PIuy

The Third Cross" a passion play,
will be repeated tomorrow night and
Tuesday night in the Holy Name
Auditorium. West Virginia avenue
and Neal street NE, by the Catho-
lie Players Guild for the benefit of
the Father Burgess Chapter. Feder-
ated Colored Catholics of Washing
ton. The colored public has been
invited.
The play proved popular during a
run of two weeks which ended Sat-
urday. The production is directed
by Paul MesSink.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Arlington Camera Club
To Show British Prints

An exhibition of prints from the
Royal Photographic Society of
Great Britain will be displayed un-
der the sponsorship of the Arling-
ton (VaJ Camera Club at the Nat.
ural History Building of the Ma
tional Museum from Tuesday, April
4, to April Is.
The work of about 60 American
photographers will be hung with the
Evening star., 1939-04-02

Stream has been refitting at Alex
andria. 1t about the size of the
dredge Pennsylvania, now working
OIL Hams Point, but its 1000 horse
power pumping engine is a bit more
powerful
The Gulf Stream is to start on the
downstream end of the airport site
at Daingerf1eld Island, near the
Commerce Departments radio bea-
con, and dredge up the Four Mile
Run stretch. In this area 1t is ex-
pected to get sand and gravel for
building the runways and levees and
Evening star., 1939-04-02

more than 200 prints to be exhibited.
After the showing here the exhibit
will be taken to Boston.
Members of the Arlington club
will display more than 10 of their
own pictorial prints at another ex-
hibit during April at the Arts and
Industries Building of the National
Museum.
w. A. Ray is chairman Of the
committee arranging both exhibits,
whose membership includes J. B.
Scruggs. William Dram and Miss
Mary Eleanor Browning.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

The Gulf Stream weathered q
rough trip around the Florida Keys
without mishap. 1t will be operated
by crew of about 100 men and SO
additional men will work the pipe
lines.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Second Huge Dredge
Will Go Into Action
At Graveny Point
Crew Of 100 to Operate
1t With 50 Men
On Pipe Lines

Shortly after midnight tonight, a
second huge contract dredge, the
Gulf Stream, will go into action at
the site of the Gravelly Point Air
port. .....
Brought here by the McWilliams
Dredging Co. of New Orleans after
taking up tons of mud from the
lower Mississippi River, the Gulf
Evening star., 1939-08-13

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ers Of glazed chintr 4
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Evening star., 1939-08-13
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