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Black Divinity for what he is.
Alexander's researches or investi-
cations confirm in general the de-
tails I wrote concerning Divine
when he was expanding in Sayville
in 1882, namely: that George
Father Divine" Bakers financial
income springs secretly from two
main sources and two races
colored people who give their ma
terial wealth to the Divine King
dom when they join, and well-to-
do white people who wish to con-
tribute to what they consider a
good cause. My articles also dis
closed that Divine's phenomenal
success is based upon an infallible
principle, the Principle of Sc
crecy! (No one has ever succeeded
without it; no one has ever failed
with it, The Divine Movement
keeps no books, no records.
Let me add, however, that Di-
vines success l believe is due in
great measure to a white man who
has sense enough to keep out of
the spotlight. He is j. Maynard
Matthews, known as John Lamb,
whom knew personally. This is
the man who, after Divine had Dor
rowed the I-Am-God idea from
Negro preacher in the South, gave
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Listen to
This
By Hobart T. Mitchell


erage Negro family in New York
City spends more for the care of
pets, i.e., dogs, cats, etc., than does
the white family at the same
economic level. They also spend
more for taxi cabs and boat rides
than whites at the same level.
About $3.50 is spent by the av-
erage Negro family in New York
per year for newspapers pur-
chased on the streets.
1877 per cent of the total Negro
population of New York is foreign
born and 75.5 per cent of the
foreign-born Negroes in the United
States were born in the West
Indies.
Chief of Police Gives Warning:
The Chief of Police of New York
warned the 54th Massachusetts
Regiment, the first authorized Ne
gro regiment of the Civil War, that
if they passed through New York
they were likely to be insulted. The
regiment not wishing to get them
selves into any difficulties were
routed by boat to their destination
in South Carolina.
The Governor of Massachusetts
was authorized by the War De-
partment, January 6, 1866, to raise
two regiments of Negro soldiers
54th and 55th.
Congressman Elliot: Hon. Rob-
ert Brown Elliot, Congressman
from South Carolina 1871-1875, a
full-blooded Negro, was born in
Boston, Massachusetts, August II,
1912. His education extended to
Elton College, England, where he
attended in 1856. Elliot was one
Of the most influential men in
South Carolina-elected to Con-
gress from Columbia district he
received 1927 votes against 1,079
votes for the Democratic candi-
date, w. H. McCaw. When but
twenty-six years of age was
member of the South Carolina
Legislature.
Fourteenth A m e n d m e mt For
Whites: Section one of the Four
teenth Amendment: ''No State
shall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges
and immpnities of the citizens of
the United States; nor shall any
state deprive any person of life,
liberty, or property without due
process of law; nor deny to any
person within it's jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws"
The purpose of the 18th, 14th,
10Th amendments was to abolish
slavery, safeguard slaves, strength
en- the control of Congress over the
States.
Hon. Roscoe Conkling, a mem
Der of Congress when the 18th
Amendment was drafted, helped to
insert the due process clause as a
protection of corporate property.
Conkling as counsel in the case
where the Southern Pacific Rail-
road sued to set aside a California
law taxing corporations at high
er rate than individuals argued
that a corporation also was a per-
son and the civil rights of persons
guaranteed by the 14th Amend
ment extended to property rights
of corporations. The Court ac-
cepted this statement.
Discrimination cases involving
Negroes have been before the
Court about so or more times:
cases involving everything under
the sun such as, birds, lemons, soft
drinks, about 700 or more times.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-12-01


So as you see the law made to
protect the Negro has done a
greater or better job in protecting
the whites.
December 2, 1859-John Brown
was executed for raid on U. S.
arsenal at Harper's Ferry to free
the slaves.
December 6, 1884 - Phillis
Wheatley, first Negro woman to
attain literary distinction in Amer
lea, died at the age of 81 years.
(Take notice Phillis Wheatley
Settlement House, Minneapolis.)
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-12-01
Thanksgiving

Pm thankful for the little things in
life, dear God.
A baby's tiny smile;
The joyous shouts of children at my
door;
A glowing love-a home
! could not ask for more.
Once l desired wealth and fame and
power.
/ knew no better.
Now I've found peace in every step
/ trod.
For all the little things
! thank Thee, God.
-Maryedith Kyle.
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There Must Be Sacrifice

No person need expect to rise
Without some form of sacrifice;
1t never was intended.
The highest and the noblest things
Are never reached by floral wings
On which some have depended.
Some cherished thing must be
foreborn,
A heartstring must be cut or torn
Before we reap the glory;
The path up to the top we beat
With aching joints and crimson
feet ...-
This is the old, old story.
William Henry Huff.
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Poetic
Thoughts
By Morris Gibbs, Sr.

This week the poetic editor has
selected two poems. One by
Maryedith Kyle of Minneapolis and
the other by Jessie Stuart of Du-
Iuth,
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Wings Over Jordan

Through change schedules the "Wings Over
Jordan WCCO of the Columbia Chain
should be correction of this because the
value of this presentation and thought Dot In
relations and in artistic
Some popularity of this be gotten when
consideration the fact that crowds OF and tee
thousand people hear at public
holds the
formerly given Jordan There two solutions to
this be persuaded to
take another time transcription of the wings
could heard later hour through
this medium. - . r... -.~. .:
many of less routine nature
the air that deal of them
removed the question Those Interested IN BRING
ing backs should write their wishes to the station.
reasonably certain that radio station would like to
give listening public the most desired Although some OF
me build radio audience for the
Certainly WCCO should be glad cooperate
with those Swings Over Jordan" back.
Practices Which Must Cease
Several complaints made this of the
humatng experiences Negro shoppers who
Minneapolis downtown five and
....
of of this similar
representations which resulted in
temporary determinations practiced sueptousy against
colored
specific who received service at the
half food instead of the full
their fellow white for which they charged
discourage Negro patrons
cheap unfair trick What small thing for big
millions dollars from Negro to
practice .. -.-...
newspaper gathered these Unless tn
management stops practices Immediately going full
stand of eolored shoppers workers
who to obtain food.
There are of may stop such dis
elimination by public establishments.
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Ought to Be Big Enough

Among people Minneapolis who accepted leaders
entirely much undercovr nfng bakbng jealousy and
downright petiness
Leaders, women be big enough keep
their eaouses personal feelings of their public
will find that the who
the largest audience following those who spend most Of
their time building and singing the praises of others
prestige those who
knocking people and handling the
truth lightly carelessly in doing
actually to the
rather than themselves
building practice tearing
and movements :
Such seldom permanently they general
impede the of the entire community
The public should listening to those who always knock
with grind join with those who
trying their level best to build better Spokes
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SCHUYLER Talks Out

politics crooked politics matter whether the criminals
white coord successful at his
graft should be pulled
citizen handn with raketeers
acquired
his womenk silks sans certainly
anybody hang him racial leader and bene
hard people the
amount much when they spreading praise and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
Schools And The People

There peculiarly close relationship between the
schools and the people.
The education Of children is thing in which and
women feel personal concern, than for general
civic matters The whole American tradition has been to
keep school administration close possible to the people
There is therefore, for in proposal made
congress that the Washington school board be abolished
Said to have support from certain political science and city
manager experts, this plan wants close scrutiny
Control Of schools by city managers administrators
other single heads may be specifically attractive Often
school boards incompetent involved politically.
But 1t least school boards directly elected by the people
be replaced school issues alone They subject to
the win Of the electorate that single ISSUE There is
ectness Of contact between them and the people that
republic should be slow to sacrifice
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
SUNDAY. MARCH Is, 1888

According to astrology this is
not an important day in plane
,tary direction. The ruling aspect
should be soothing and uplifting,
encouraging to churches and
congregations.
In the home. temptation to
criticize should be overcome.
There is sign disturbing to
domestic harmony through argu-
ment.
There is a sign most helpful
to those engaged in intellectual
pursuits. Members of the learned
profession should benefit through
the year. There will be de-
mand for trained leadership.
Clear thinking should be culti-
waited persistently. since there
will be transformation and de-
ception regarding public issues
as well as international rela-
tons. Insidious propaganda will
flood readers.
The evening Is an suspicious
time for first meeting Of young
folk. Girls will be able to make
good impressions upon young
men. especially if there is a
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CONTINUED From PAGE Threel


call in the reporters to issue a
personal denunciation of a fell
low commissioner. A. NJ.
Craven. HOLC-er John II. John
Fl. Fahey ated FHA-er
Stewart Mcdonald to fish
wife's tongue-lashing. Messrs.
Morgenthau and Woodring bare
ly nod when they meet, which
they don't do If they can help 1t.
These outbursts come at
particularly bad time for
president who aims to CONSOLE
date his forces. to convince bust
ness and industry that he Ia
calming down, to rally his per-
sonal army around him for the
conflict with old fashioned
politicos in the next 10 months.
For the first time he has given
q smart spanking to few of
the trouble-makers and mu-
tineers. In the past he thought
1t was a healthy thing for his
aides to dissent and clash, and
rarely interviewed. Now II doesn't
seem so funny-or healthy.
The literary critics have been
kinder to Mrs. Woodrow Will
sons MY Memoir" than her old
friends-and encmies-at Wash
ington. But even in Capital
so close to the scenes and per-
sonalities she describes there are
two schools of thought about
this social and political history
of World war days.
Some blame her bitterly for
her almost ruthless attacks on
such figures as Joe Tumulty,
Colonel House. Secretary Lam
sing. In venting her animosity
toward these servitors of her
husband, they contend, she ap-
pears to miss the vastly greater
significance of the events in
which she played an intimate
role. Others maintain that she
mas filied great gaps OF I'M
known history-revealed how
personal likes and dislikes shape
the destinies of people-why her
husband failed to realize his
great dream of a peaceful par
lament of man.
Luckily for the Capitals So
cial set. only a small number of
oramatis personae have sur
vived the political changes
wrought by the New Deal.
Woodrow Wilson's only close
friends here these days are
Senator Carter Glass, Jesse r.
Jones and their dwindling
coterie-and they came through
the pages with flying colors.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20

MIR. Ffxit: Ccssd you tell ~
whtre 10 write to apply for
werk on the Deer Trnppig EN-
periment": Also w'hs to 80
shout worn On tn ~Nna Moon-
tain DAM WIN their be- any
truck work there and Who gets
n: c. p. n.
We haven't heard that the
state is planning on any crews
other than its regular game pro-
tectors for that experiment of
trapping deer and moving them
to less populated spots But you
could write to Bernard T. Nc
Cauley. director Of the state
game commission. L. C. Smith
building. Seattle.
Mud Mountain dam will be
built by contract, which means
the labor win be hired through
the regular labor unions. There
will undoubtedly be trucking on
such = big irt-moving job.
MIR. rxit: What In the seven
letter nickname for Washing
tn state? And the four-letter
nickname for Arizona: X. ID. =.
II you haye't lost your cross
word puzzle by now. You might
try Chinook" for Washington,
and the Baby" state for Ari-
iona. That's the only four-let-
ter one we can find for 1t.
Mr.. Fixit: We have a nice COW
aud live out Of the city limits.
WIN you please tell me II II IL
against the law to sell milk 70
my neighbour when they como
and ask for IL? READER
1t would be unlawful unless
you complied In fun with the
state dairy law. That involves
installation of n cooler, bother,
capper. sterilizer and other equip
ment. which runs into more
money than a one-cow dairyman
reasonably can afford to spend.
You could get n more complete
explanation of the dairy law
from Or. Charles Saunders of
the Pierce county health depart
ment AT the courthouse.
Mr.. Fixit: VIII you please
print how much gasoline the
Chinese Clipper can carry In
her tanks? Also how much u
burns pc- hour when In flight?
l.. A. r.
Theoretically, the clipper
planes used on the Pacific can
stow away about 1000 gallons
of gasoline, which would weigh
around "a, 900 pounds. Actually,
the ships carry about $500 gal
Ions on their long hop from
San Francisco bay to Honolulu.
Gas consumption is figured at
about gallon per mile.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20

Someone has figured out that
those planes could take off from
a point within two thousand
miles OF such widely-separated
American cities as Philadelphia
and Fort Worth. And. OF course.
they would practically be in the
back yard of the Panama Canal.
But IL there is anything in all
OF this TO worry any Americans,
the Puerto Rico base is a pretty
complete answer to il. For even
II you assume that the Germans
did want to make an attack on
America. that they could get
sizsble fleet Of bonn bers down to
South America without being in
tereepted, and that those bomb
ers could stay there without be-
ing promptly bombed off the
face of the earth by American
planes operating out of Panama
even If you assume all of that.
the Puerto Rico base would still
remain an almost impossible
barrier.
Copyright, 1882
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
LESSONS IN ENGLISH
BY w. L. Gordon


Words often misused: Do not
say, The meeting convened at s
O'Clock" Say. The people con-
vened laSsemhledl at 8 o'clock"
or. The meeting took place at
S o'clock"
Often mispronounced. Bestial.
Pronounce best-yal. as in best
mot as in BEAST. a unstressed.
Often misspelled: Alteration:
one b. two RS.
synonyms: Finical. fastidious,
foppish, dapper. unduly dainty.
Word study: Use a word
three times and II is yours" Let
US increase our vocabulary by
mastering one word each day.
Today's word: Effulgent; diff
fusing flood of light; luminous.
pronounce the u as in upl.
"Effulgent rays of light
Cowper.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
PULSE OF THE
PUBLIC

Editor, The Times; AS far
back as we have any record ma
tons have risen and collapsed.
Democracy and autocracy are
just now at the parting of the
way.
Perhaps a conflict abroad is in
evitable.
Why not send a billion dollars
worth of planes and material to
the democracies abroad right
now? This might enable them
to win without an appeal to US
for man power. The president
seems to sense this possibility
and to my way of thinking he
is right again.
The actual cause of the rise
and fall of nations is a debatable
question. Henry George has
written: What has destroyed
every previous civilization has
been the tendency TO the unequal
distribution of wealth and
power"
We are told that history re-
peats itself is Eat Sc? >"
F. M. KIRkENDALL.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
PRAISES HOSPITAL

Editor, The Times: No politics.
no AK to grind whatever. l just
wish to say a word for the
folks who run the county hos
pital. l was there for a minor
operation. During the is days l
spent there l was treated fine.
From DR.. Brown. the head; DR..
McGill and all the younger doc
tors. as well as the nurses, l re-
ceived respect and good treat
ment
The trouble, as l see il, is that
a great many of the patients are
so unreasonable. Some seem to
think they should be waited on
personally at all times; impos-
sible. of course. due TO the hos
pitfalls lack of funds to employ
more persons.
But they are doing a great
work there. The county commits
sioners should. above all things.
help the helpless.
HARRY J. DICKSON.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
. STORIES
IN STAMPS
Discovered America
In O leoky Ship

DROBABLY no poorer ship ever
won more lasting fame than
the leaky, decaying Santa Maria.
II was practically worn out when
the merchants Martin and Vi
cente Pinzon obtained it for Co.
lumbus along with two open cara
wells in which TO start out for the
unknown.
The Santa Maria, known first as
the Gallego. had been trading be-
tween Spain and Italy for many
years when Columbus finally took
command. He could not even get
il properly calked. She was hardly
more than three times the size OF
a modern ships lifeboat, though
she did have plenty of beam. en-
aiding her TO ride high rough
seas.
Yet into this ancient craft CO.
lumhus crowded So men, together
with stores and equipment and.
armed with two small swivel guns.
bows and arrows and swords. set
sail Aug. ). 1922 for an America
he did not know existed.
II was invariably hard voy-
age. The ship leaked and there
was little dry shelter in bad
weather. Fresh water turned sour
and the charts proved woefuny
useless Only by the most Skillful
handling OF his men did Columbus
manage TO survive at all. So II
was that the Santa Maria carried
him al last 10 a new land.
The ship is shown above on the
Scent stamp of the beautiful
Y. S. Columbian series of 1898.
green, enlarged. The entire issue
comprises Is values tracing the
whole story of the Columbus sd-
venture in the new world
tIoy.TishI lsss. MA SerNigr. lnel
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
SCIENCE NEWS

Returning popularity of BIZ
cycles has spurred a new inven-
ton. It consists of a pedal drive
that pumps like an organ, elm
mating the present sprocket and
chain. The pedals, which are in
the same relative position, con-
meet back to the hub of the rear
wheel. Less of the force applied
by the cyclist goes to waste I'M
der the new system, by which
the pedals work back and forth
through a small part of the
circumference, rather than re-
volve.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20

The British parliament refused to
back the private company. The
bore at this time extended $500
feet from Shakespeare Cliff on the
English side and 6,027 feet out
from Sangatte, France.
Nothing was done until 1887,
when Gladstone attempted to re-
vive the project. This failed, too,
and today no more has been done
on the work. The natural lining
has formed a concrete-like protec-
ton to the tunnel, which is sealed
at both ends, uncompleted, unused,
forgotten.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
One Type Of Peaceful
We Psepssednes,

Ms& war prspAntion is economic lost motion
results in unproductive producton-hat is the pro-
erection Of things which value in themselves to men,
and which are not productive other valuable things Guns
bombs and bayonets are like that
But the senate is embarked on preparedness pro
gram that less on the unproductive side than almost any
other the buying up in advance of certain materials
~n'0 might De hard or impossible to get in time Of
AN are useful in peace q well as in war
Not only war in which the United States was involved
put any war might make dangerous impossible to get
xee Of them might well make it possible to stay out of
another IN which the United States was not concerned
for 1t could then laugh at naval bokades cornerng of
markets. or other steps that warning might take
At the rate Of SIS year is now proposed to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
IN NEW YORK
BY GEORGE ROSS

NEW YORk-Lin Yutang, the
genteel Oriental philosopher,
who now resides in Manhattan,
who reflects upon the American
way Of life in books and poetry
and who gave us his accumu-
lated wisdom in the book. THE
Importance of Living" is the
most ardent visitor at the Gen.
trail Park ZOO. Attendants in the
park menagerie meet the Chi
nese philosopher there almost
daily.
He claims TO unhampered
thought, free from distraction.
while he is in the company Of
the assorted inmates. His in
innate confidant there is a squir-
rel who enjoys the freedom Of
the grounds but who hovers
about the zoo cages on his
rounds.
Lin Yutang says that he has
learned many a fact about life
from his furry friend and inspir-
atoms aplenty for his meditative
essays. Nor does the squirrel 60
without his share of the royal
ties, for the Chinese philosopher
never fails to bring a pocketful
of nuts along.
BIG PAY
Which reminds me of that
publishing phenomenon of the
decade -"Ferdinand"-that brief
fable of the peace-loving bull
which has horned in on the
American heart. The saga Of
"Ferdinand's' creation is not
new. Munro Leaf wrote 1t in
less than forty-five minutes one
day for his own amusement. He
wrote it in less than 100 words
and was about to toss the effort
into the waste basket when it
was retrieved by a friend of his
who happened to be standing
around.
Ferdinand's career from then
on has been spectacular. More
than a half million copies of the
slim volume were sold in the
United States, Walt Disney
screen tested Ferdinand with
huge success and the various
toy, doll, cartoon and other sun
dry royalties for the botanical
bull have catapulted him into the
realm OF Big Business.
I couldn't get even approx
mate figures on Munro Leafs
proceeds from his happy bull.
but one reliable computer said
he wouldn't be surprised were
his personal profits to exceed a
half million dollars. Not a puny
sum for forty-five minutes Of
relaxing scribbling.