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The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09
Builds Up BIG Business In Squads In Five Short Years
Kansas Couple Has
Reached TheirGoaI

also purchases them. In addition to
these, which get rather large ship
ments monthly, many private in
dividuals in Ell Dorado and nearby
towns get small supplies at inter-
walls AS the supply may be able to
meet.
The net income is sufficient to
afford Higgins and his wife free
dom from care and worry as to
necessary means to meet current
bills, plus laying aside something
for the proverbial ''rairly day.. AT
present they have several hundred
producing pairs of SQUADS and
hundreds of others nearly old
enough and ready to be dressed
for the market.
20 SQUADS A YEAR
each good working pair aver
ages from 20 to % squads each
year, says Higgins 1.-THE aver
age cost or expense per squad, from
Matching to delivery to the buyer,
is only seven cents. The breed We
have is thoroughbred and all sea-
sons producers, that is, they pro-
duce the year around. They be-
gin laying when six months and
continue for an average of eight
to IL years. In extreme cases some
squads produce for as many as 20
years"
According to Higgins, of the
original Is pairs bought five years
ago, only six have died, and this
number, includes their total losses
in matured squads. The senior
member of the firm is William
Higgins, well known civic and po-
htical leader among Negroes of
Butler county of which Ell Dorado
is county seat. He has been en-
ployed as custodian of the Ell
Dorado National bank for the past
% years.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09
Razor Blade Diet Proves
To Be StickIer For Freak

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-(ANP)-For more than
10 years Alfred Edwards has made his living at carni-
walls and county fairs by swallowing pieces of broken
bottles knives, tacks blades and other articles
of cutlery.
But last week misfortune befell the "swallOwng
champ" when after dispOsing of beer bottle,
tacks and three knives razor blade stuck in his
throat. His physician ordered a strict fast until the
blade worked out Of his throat. Last Friday, out
the shaving accessory and edwards is reported seeking
a less hazardous OCCUPATION.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09
Justice Department
Hears Of S. C. Case

ter. according to williams, when he
was tried and acquitted on August
II. but remanded to Jail on a Sec
ond charge, johnson threatened to
"take me out of the Jail and Kill
ME, if 1 did not tell him why the
Negroes were registering in Green
VILE"
In a letter to Assistant Attorney
General o. John Rogge, Thurgood
Marshall, special counsel for the
NAACP, pointed out that the afti-
davit represented specific evil
dence of an. overt act in violation
of the laws of the United States"
the type of evidence which the
Justice Department has said would
permit federal action.
YOUTH GROUPS AID
DEFENSE FUND
Coincident with the action taken
by the NAACP's legal counsel, an
nouncement was made by James
H. Robinson, acting director of the
associations youth councils, that
responses in the form of funds to
aid the defense of Anderson and
the other members of the youth
council were now coming into the
national office.
1--WE started campaign in our
youth councils two weeks ago. he
said, "to raise funds for the prose-
cution of this case. / am happy to
say that despite the fact that many
of our councils all over the country
are not very active during the
summer, definite responses have
been Forthcoming.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09
People Do Not
Now Rule Little
Black Republic

riots and editors who oppose the
present regime. AS commandant
the author refused to be cats-paw
in these plots. He pointed out that
such games of politics were not
compatible with military ethics and
ois oath taken as a soldier.
Mr. Vincent now enraged proceed
cG to DISMISS substitute and exc
cute those senators and represen-
tatives who did not see eye to eye
with his plans. He made judges
obedient to his slightest request
and bridled to the press.
Realizing that Colonel Calixte
was earnest and conscientious in
his duty, the henchmen of the
president invented the so-called
conspiracy of December 27tn
against the Haitian government. A
puppet commission was hurriedly
established. 1t was dominated by
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09
HARLEM SKETCHES

ishes about this time every year.
The hawker goes to Chinatown,
buys a peculiar shaped bean at five
cents per pound Containing
around 300 beams, pays one dollar
for a water orchid watch he dis
plays in a small fish bowl, then
sells the beans to patrons for
nickel a piece or three for dime.
The bean is supposed to blossom
forth as pretty as the water orchid
after a period of immersion in
water. 1t can remain in water for
ever and never blossom, for it is an
edible bean much used in Chinese
cookery. When sucker complains,
the hawller tells him it must have
been a bad one in the lot and pro-
ceeds to sell him another at a
nickel.
RENT TO WHITES
Despite claims of the Elks who
met here last week that they are
doing all they possibly can to pro-
mote Negro business some of the
more lucrative concessions were let
to white men. One of the most lu-
crative concessions was the taking
of group pictures of the entire Elk
body. Usually more than a thous-
and pictures are sold to visiting
members at 81 each.
With the town overrun with
fotogs( coloreO, there have been
complaints registered because of
hiring a white concern to take this
picture. The Daughter Elks were a
bit more racial minded, for they
commissioned Bill Woodland, noted
fotog, to take their assembled pic
lures. The job he put up for them
was a bit better than the one the
white fotog produced for the men.
Harlem slickers take many dis
guises to earn an easy peice of
change. These conventions are pie
to a large group who resort to ev-'
cry means to separate the sucker
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09
Maritime Commission
Helpless In Tampa

a hearing of the matter before the
Commission, and change in the
language of the Commissions con-
tract with the Tampa Shipbuild-
ing company protecting the Negro
union members in closed shop
agreement.
Pointing out that the Maritime
Conmission's contract with the
Tampa Shipbuilding company did
not include a closed-shop pro-
vision. woodward stated that the
shi2building company's legal rights
we're involved in a manner to pre-
clude the Commissions acting in
the matter.
At the same time that the Mari
time Commissions statement was
made public, the association also
announced that report had been
received which makes it clear that
Local 1907 of the International
Hold Carriers, Building and Com
mon Laborers Union of America.
the union involved. is seeking to
drop it's Negro membership alto
gether.
According to the report H. L..
Sanders, white business agent for
the Jim crow unit of the union is
seeking endorsement from the
unions white membership to have
a substitute auxiliary charter given
to the Negro unit, thus displacing
them from the mother charter en-
tirely.
Failing in this, the report states,
Sanders will seek an independent
charter for the white union mem
hershin. a move that is contrary to
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09
Geese Used To Save
Labor OnC0tt0n + farms

WASHlNGTON-(ANP) Hey Mr..
i2ipley-look at this-they are us
ing Geese in some sections of the
south as a labor saving device in
cotton plantations! And that is
part of a report sent to DR.. w. w.
Alexander as the utmost truth.
It's this way. Geese like the
tender shoots of crab grass that
grow in the cotton fields, so Mr..
Planter just gets a flock Of geese
and turns them loose in the cot
Ton fields. They wander in, select
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09

from his money. Recent conven-
tons have been pestered by alleg-
eel fotogs who have come to meet
ings with cameras, received per-
mission to take pictures of various
groups and individuals with a
promise to place the pictures in
from 10 to 100 papers at a cost sell
dom higher than S. or $40. Eagerly
such terms are snapped up, the
money given to the fotog and then
the victim has long, long wait for
the picture to appear.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09

a row of cotton and go through it
carefully, each goose taking an
Individual row for his very own.
Then they assemble at the end
OF the rows and under their own
leader, take another assignment
being very careful not to touch the
cotton plants. but giving full at
tcntion to, the grass that hampers
cotton groyth. The. goose service is
very cheap, many planters relying
upon them to dc more work more
efficiently than the hired hands.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09
Unemployment Confab
Called In Philadelphia

their power to open many job op-
portunities to Negroes. Fuller is
also an exponent of rugged indi-
vidualism.
Other speakers will include Ell
mer A. Carter, editor of Oppor-
tunity magazine; Lawrence A. Ok
lev, of the u. S. Employment Serv-
ice: and T. Arnold Hill, industrial
secretary of the National Urban
1p6pIIp
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09

NEW YORK-(SNS)- The Unit
cd States Maritime Commission
has no power to act in the stiua-
ton involving the displacing OF
more than 500 Negro union men
from jobs at the Tampa Ship
building Company in Tampa, Fla,
according to Thomas M. Wood
ward, vice chairman of the Com
mission.
Woodward made the statement
in a letter addressed to the Ma
..ional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People today. The
association had sought to tie UP
the contract of the Tampa Snip
building company with the Mari
time commission, amounting to more
than 100000, until the unions
discrimination policy against en-
ployment of its Negro members,
under closed shop with the ship
building company had been chang
ed.
The association had also sought
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09
Monkey Biteo
Atlanta Man

ATLANTA, Georgia-(A N P)-
Fred Hill, AZ, of 1913 Rhodes
Street, Tuesday was treated at
Grady Hospital clinic for bite
injuries said to have been in
ficted by a monkey. Attaches
failed to find out the exact 10
cation of the biting, but said
they were informed it occurred
ON a street in the city area and
that the animal sprung on the
man.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09
BY SID THOMPSON

NEW YORK CAMP With the
advent of so many conventions in
Harlem, the streets have been
overrun with street hawkers. side
walk statesmen and "city slickers. 1"
One of the neatest schemes to rob
the unwary is the one which flour
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09
Let The School Bells
Ring- Mrs. Bethune
By MARY Mcleod BETHUNE

WASHINGTON.-(ANP)- August begins to fade
out of the picture and September the horizon
the ringing of school bells begins to haunt the of year
ing school children teachers parents Once teacher
always teacher The newspapers beginning to carry
their school advertisements and large department stores
having fashion shows depicting what the college girl
will We often overlook the real thing in life and
chase the shadow particularly interested in knowing
whether young people realize the why of education and the
fundamental detectives and why have schools
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-(ANP)-A
conference to find ways and means
to get Negroes back into private
industry has been called by the
Pennsylvania State Department OF
Labor and Industry, to be held
at Lincoln University, Chester
county, September Is, Is, and II.
A program devised by the State Ad-
visory Council or Negro affairs
will be the nucle'1s of discussion
and planning.
Walter D. Fuller, president OF
the Curtis Publishing Co., publish
ers Of the Saturday Evening Posi-
ar1 other magazines, will be the
kingpin speaker representing big
business. He is a member of the
National Association of Manufac-
tdrers and both he and the men,
bers of his organization have it in
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09
Ohio Airn1en Organize

CLEVELAND, o., LAMP Recent formation
here of the Cleveland Airmen's Association marked
notable addition to the increasing number of Negroes
who have taken up the study of aviation The officers
are as follows: Ray Hampton, squadron commander;
Norman Parker, flight leader and William Palmer, adj
jutant.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09

the policy of the American Fedora
ton CT Labor. Although discredited
by the Negro membership, Sanders
activities have resulted in tying up
the funds of this branch of the
IlniOn
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09

conservation of human resources
and the reality of the democratic
concept as way of life.
Let the school bells ringi"
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09

The association had also sought
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-09-09

league
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-25

Ell? And this is the message he
sent for his sister,"
Mac nodded. That's it."
Richard, Richard Witherspoonl
The familiar sickening sensation
attacked the pit of my stomach.
ut can't be true!" I protested
weakly.
"You don't want TO- defend q
murderer, do you?" demanded
Phil. His face was pale and moist
with excitement. I turned from
him, unable to conceal my distaste.
What did he care, I thought, with
bitterness? What did he care that
Richard was young and headstrong
and in trouble? What did he care
for anything except to have his
name in the papers beneath story
headed:
MURDERER ARRESTED!
Leave the girl alone" snapped
Mac. Cant you see she's all in ?"
"All in?" Phips establishment
was genuine. His eyes opened wide
ly. He grinned, that little-boy grin
of his, and dropped down at my
feet. Sorry, Elsie" he said hus-
kily. IT guess I seem pretty heart
less to you. The kid'll have q
chance to prove his innocence.
Don't you worry"
HE isn't guiltyw I insisted, but
my doubt must have been evident,
for he patted my knee several
times and squeezed my hand
tightly.
"Who is this Beeman, Mac 2" he
asked after while.
Ellis interrupted by clearing his
throat overloudly. "Beeman," he
explained, carefully looking over
my head, "is known in certain cir
cles as Fifty Per Cent B. He is
one of the crookedest money lend
ers in this part Of the country"
Phil whistled. IT get it! Richard
owed him money! And on the day
of his mothers death he wires that
he can pay"
Don't" laid my hands on his
lips. Don't say it,"
Go Be Continued)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-25

you something that has an answer
But you wouldn't like it.
"Try me-"
He repeated: "You wouldn't like
it."
IT can take itw I assured him
fippingly.
you've found something's" Phil
was eager.
Eyes" Ellis hand emerged, like
a study in slow motion, from his
pocket. His fingers were wrapped
about a crumpled sheet of yellow
paper.
LET Elsie read it." Mac said,
and smoothed the paper upon the
table. It was a Western.Union tele-
graph form, and it was filled in in
pencil.
"Well!" urged Phil.
Read it, Elsie"
READ it aloud!" Phil was impa-
tient. Don't stand there like a
DUMMY"
Eyes, I'll read it," 1 said, and
even to myself my voice sounded
queer and strained:
Lawnville, Ohio, March 3, 1887.
B. B. Beeman, Park Hotel, Column
bus, Ohio. Will have money sure
end of week-do nothing until you
hear from me-"
I broke off. There was a lump
in my throat that was tho size of
walnut.
Phil nudged my elbow. GO on!
Who sent it,"
But I couldn't go on. There was
a buzzing' in my brain.
"Catch her, Benson!" Mac was
shouting. Strong arms supported
me.
"Snap out Of it, baby" Phil was
shaking me. stared up at him. He
seemed thousand miles away.
Then the buzzing stopped.
"All right, now" 7 r?urmured.
The telegram dangled Imply from
my nervless fingers. It fiuttered to
the floor. Phil made a dive for it..
$50" he exclaimed, and at his
note of jubilation my heart turned
over in my breast. Young Richard,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-25
BY E. CORNE
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
MISS HEN r E T 7 A WILL
LOUGHSTON crept into the in.
quiring room.
"Ive been waiting and wait
ing" she whispered, advancing
with outstretched arms. waiting
and waiting!"
"I'm sorry you had to wait" In
the sudden hush that came upon us,
Ellis tone was like giant explo-
sion. "What was it you wanted 2"
Ssh! She wheeled about and tip
toed to the door. They're spying
on me-" she said softly and cooked
her head in a listening attitude.
"Who?" The chief looked un-
easy. "Who's spying?"
"Shw she Kissed again. "They
know I know!"
"They do? Who?"
She nodded. Her eyes were aw-
full. They glittered! II can't tell
you! You can't make me tell"
"What is this ?" Ellis sent ST.
lent S. o. S. to Mcintyre. The Chi
cago detective gazed serenely at
the ceiling.
"Any questions, McIntyre?" Ellis
shot at him.
II think not" Mac shook his
head.
"Do you know" demanded Miss
Henrietta, turning to him. DO
you?"
Perhaps"
"Some one told you" she
screamed accusingly, and moved
closer to him.
mo-" Mac denied, Il guessed"
She cackled gleefully. Guessed!
You could never guess! Not in a
million years."
Someone is in great danger!"
He spoke lowly and stared intent
ly into her eyes.
"Danger!" The laughter closed
in her throat. She looked fright
,ened. She whimpered: mo"
eyes" He rose and lowered
above her. There will be blood
spilled"
For second 1 thought a miracle
was going to take place. The mad
ness left the old lady's eyes. San
ity, bright and clear, shone from
them. leaned forward, gripping
the sides of my chair. Then, quick
ly, as it had come, the brightness
faded.
vengeance is mine" she
croaked. $50 sayeth our Lord! The
wages Of sin is DEATH"
"Her death 2" asked Mac. Hers,
too?"
But Miss Henrietta was no
longer capable of reason. Her lips
moved ceaselessly, saying nothing.
She was praying as she left the
room.
'Well, that's the last of them!"
Ellis said when she had gone. He
wiped his perspiring brow.
what about the servants 2"
Phil reminded him.
"Give me a breathing spell, man!
III get 10 the help before long. And
2 hope to Heaven they talk more
than their masters!"
"How can people talk when you
don't ask them anything?" I fired
at him.
"Now, Elsie" spoke up Mac.
"You, toow I flared. "You dc
nothing but talk in riddles!"
riddles have answers"
"Pooh!" was too tired to think
up a wise-crack. "Poohm
He said slowly: Ellis could show
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-25

daily or twice-daily constitutional
may need some persuasion but it
pays dividends which even the OBJ
ject of the attentions will admit.
The best time for walking or other
exercise is after breakfast, and
short periods must be planned be-
cause the aged easily become ia
tigued. After luncheon, a stroll in
the fresh air will ward off the feel
ing of STIFFNESS and sleepiness.
No hard and fast rules can be laid
down for the habits Of the elderly.
And that goes without saying be-
cause the elderly themselves put out
the most insurmountable obstacles
to outside interference.
About sleeping especially, no
rules can be formulated. An emil
nent author of my acquaintance
wrote me that he had solved the
problem of growing old gracefully.
In his Office and his library he has
had a couch installed, and whenever
he feels like it, he takes a few min
utes of "shut-eye". He says that is
the best remedy for the afternoon
let down.
They Do Sleep
The elderly complain that they
get no sleep at all, but usually they
are deceiving themselves. A physi-
clan friend of mine tells OF a
woman Of seventy who told him she
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-25
BY LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.

BY LOGAN CLENDENING. M. d.
GeriGtrics, the speciality which
treats of old age, is based on three
fundamental principles:
"a That old age is physiologic
condition, like childhood, and not a
diseased state Of maturity.
~ That disease in old age is a
morbid condition in normally de-
generating organ, and not a dis
ease such as we find in maturity
complicated by degenerations.
(S) That the care of old age
should have as its object the resto-
ration Of the diseased organ or It's
sue to the state normal for old age
and not to condition normal for
maturity.
Changes
To understand the second and
third Of these principles, it is nec-
essary to have full appreciation of
the first, which concerns the changes
normal physiologic, inevitable
changes-that occur in old age.
Perhaps the most fundamental un-
derstanding necessary about them
is that they occur and that they
must be faced. There is nothing
more disgusting than the Pollyanna
attempts to talk about "old age de-
ferred" and life beginning at forty.
The essential change in the It's
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-25
BY LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.


OLD PEOPLE are very sensitive
to changes in atmospheric condi-
tions. The regulation of bodily tenn
perature is unbalanced. They no
longer burn their food with the same
steady flame. The blood supply to
the skin is diminished and does not
fiuctuate with weather changes.
Winter is the bad time with them.
Quetelet drew up a table Of over
400, 900, cases, which showed that
the largest number of deaths in peo-
pie over sixty occurs in the months
Of December, January and Febru-
airy. That is undoubtedly why they
seek asylum in California and Flor
ida. And if circumstances permit, a
winter trip to a warm climate pays
for itself in increased comfort and
even preservation of life.
If that is impossible, every effort
should be made to save older people
from draughts and sudden changes
of temperature. Flannel or wooden
clothes may be worn three-fourths
of the year. And the young mem
bers of the household may have to
set aside a warmer room for the
habitation Of their elders.
" walking Necessary
i. This does not mean that the elders
should be constantly pampered or
that they should not get some fresh
air and exercise. If an old man
gives. up his work and sits in a warm
house, the lack Of fresh air and ex-
ercise will cause many symptoms. A
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-25

Ignace Jan Paderewski, 78-year-
old world-famous pianist and for
nner Polish premier, arrives in Feb
ruary for his goth American tour.
opening with nationwide broad
cast from New York and including
some twenty of the larger cities.
Paderewski first came to America in
1891. abandoned music for politics
during the war period, then re-.
turned to concertizing in 1922 after.
spending his fortune promoting.
Poland as an independent state.
Central Press
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-25

Sam Goldwyn says the films have
great responsibilities to go on. to
greater things. And a great way to
30?
An editor in Rome challenges an
-dltor in Paris to a duel. Choose your
pens, gentlemen!
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-25

Cortez and his conquistadores ~
vaded Mexico 400 years too soon. Now
adavs it could be called an appease-
nent sour.
Prosecutor Dewey of New York is
investigating alleged subway Ine1ts
IJnderhand work underground