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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-04-08
Great Lakes
Underwriters
Annual Feast
President
Stresses Need .
Of Courage

| Stressing the importance Of an
aggressive night at all times and
against all odds. l.. A. Milben. pres
ident OF the Great Lakes Under
writer's club, urged the members
to continue their push" which
had enabled agents to move rapid
lily forward.
Mr.. Milben was speaking at the
eleventh annual banquet OF the
Great Lakes Underwriters club at
Lucy Thurman YWCA Saturday
might. The officials OF Great Lakes
Mutual Insurance company were
the honored guests
'Pnshr Helped Them
In his talk Mr.. Milben pointed
out that It was this constant
push" which had brought about the
success OF Napoleon Bonaparte,
Frederick Douglass. and others.
A service key" was presented
to- Charles A. Mahoney. president
OF Great Lakes Mutual Insurance
company for his "unselhsh service
TO the company" during the past
twelve months: The presentation
was made by Mrs. Martha Woods.
Louis c. Blount. secretary OF the
company, won the key In 1888.
The second prize was awarded to
Henry Holcomb. chief inspector for
the company. Livingstone Holder
accepted the trophy in the absence
OF Mr.. Holcomb. Altha b. Seals
made the presentation.
Other speakers were: the Rev.
William II. Peck, pastor OF Bethel
AME: Mrs. Agnes Bristol. Albert
Kinney. Nose l.. walker, treasurer;
Louis c. Blount. and Charles A.
Mahoney.
! Among the guests were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Wellington Bristol.
DR.. Robert Greenidge. Mr.. and Mrs
Carlton w. Gaines, c. c. Collins.
Charles Hague. MIR. and Mrs. A. ".
Lake, Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Jacks, At
torney Joseph Craigen. Mr.. and
Mrs. william Osby, Maurice Homs-
ton. Miss V. Jones, Lorenzo Hamil-
ton, w. Randolph. Herman Stall
ings, Violet Gray, p. Kenneth Hall.
n. Roundtree, J. w. Mack, Harry
Johnson, Herbert Ransom, Miss
Ella Melton. ]. Galimore, Robert
Gum. A. ]. Speed. Adrick Phillin-
games. Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert ii. Lee,
Nonella Cleveland, ]. Will Cooper.
Thomas Carter. MIR. and Mrs. Will
liam Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. Living
stone Holder. Willis Tabor, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. f. Underwood. Mrs. Beulah
Carter. Dabney Scales, William
Hanson, Mrs. Edith PeDulle. Mr..
and Mrs. L. A., Milben, r. Louise
Henderson, ]. o. Atwater. and
James Saunders. master OF cere-
monies.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-04-08
Removal Announcement!

Attorney Ben Hughes announces
the removal Of his Office from 2OI9
W. Grand Boulevard 10 zoos w. CIR.
Boulevard, Just East OF Dexter
Boulevard.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-04-08
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-04-08
Sampson School Girl
Wins First Prize
In Spelling Bee

The Sampson school held its an
nual Spelling Bee. Friday, March
81. The winner was Theresa Thur
mond. an SA pupil. and the daugh-
ter OF Eunice and Wade Thurmond
who reside at 6O72 Begole avenue.
Theresa is also member OF the
Sampson Spiritual Singers.
The runner-up was Mildred Car
ter, another eighth grade pupil.
She Is the daughter OF Mrs. Ruby
Carter OF G373 Woodrow avenue,
and is fourteen years old.
The winning word was Sublime. y
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-04-08
New Opera Group To
Hold Additions

The National Negro Opera asso-
citation, recently organized in De-
Itroit. announce that they will hold
additions for the premier perform
ance OF yerdi's La Traviata' at
an early date, under supervision OF
Director Stuart F. Piggins.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-04-08

s1s Press. practically new. Call
moruings. Townsend 5-9252-
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-04-08
KIDNEY
TROUBLE
Stop Getting Up Nights

To harmrssly flush poIsons and
scld from kidneys and relieve irri-
isiions NJ bladder 80 that you can
top getting up nights" get a IS
cent package of Gold Medal Haar-
lem OIL Capsules and take as d.
recisd. Other symptoms OF kidney
and bladder weaknesses may be
scant, burning or emarting pas
ssgs hackache - leg cramps
puffy ewes. Get the original GOLD
MEDAL Adv.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-04-08

Langston Hughes, poet, novel;
isf, and world traveller, will
speak at Plymouth Congrega-
fionai church, Easter Sunday
evening at 8 o'clock, using
poetry TO interpret ~The Res
direction within U.s."
Mr.. Hughes Is perhaps one Of
the most artIculate spokesman
for his people. He has had n
play on BroadwayJ was award
ed the Harmon Gold Medal In
literature, and reported the
Spanish Civil War under a Gug-
genheim fellowship. His ar.
tIcles, poems and stories have
been translated into German,
French, Spanish, Russian, CHI
nese, japanese, and Dutch, and
published In the countries with
these languages.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-04-08
Baptist Ministers

The Baptist ministers confer
ence will meet Tuesday, April II,
at Mt. Olive Baptist church, 1859 +,
Garfield. near Russell. at 1000 a.
m.
The Rev. f. VI. Kaigler will dis
cuss the Sunday School lesson, and
the Rev. f.. j. Jackson Will preach.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
NEW YORK NAzIS

christian Science Monitor)
That American democracy can toler-
ate such performance as the Nazi rally
in Madison Square Garden is conVinc-
ing testimony to its strength. The evi-
dence that speech, even speech that in
cites to superStitious intolerance and
hatred. is still free in the United States
would have been even stronger had it
not been necessary for LOO police 10
protect the meeting.
But the misuse of George Washing
tons name and picture the mockery Of
Americanism, produced by uniformed
storm troopers" and their friends, prob
ably was not easy to take. Compared
with Norman Thomas mild effort to
speak in behalf Of free speech in Jersey
City-an effort Mayor Hague's legions
couldn't stomach-NeW York's Nazis put
on a show that might have been calcu-
lated to evoke violence from the 10000
who surrounded the hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

The Fascist premier, with Ger
man'ys moral support, took his first
big risk when he defied British and
French sanctions to undertake the
Improbable conquest of Ethiopia.
The conquest Of Ethiopia COIN
cided with two important develop
ments in Italian relations with
France. One was the 1895 agreement
by which France granted desert
zone south of Libya and another
area on the Red Sea TO Italy and
guaranteed special privileges for
Italians in French Tunisia until
1865. Neither nation was satisfied.
The French parliament refused to
ratify the treaty Italy has since
denounced it.
The other development was what
italians describe as a secret pledge
by France not to interfere IN the
Fascist conquest of Ethiopia. In re-
cent months, Italians have bitterly
charged France with breaking that
pledge when the League OF Nations
tried vainly to apply sanctions 70
halt the Ethiopian adventure
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
STRIFE BELOW THE
MEXICAN BORDER
{ Nevada State JOurnal)


Increasing riots and boodshed be-
tween anti-FascistS and antl-Communlsts
in Mexico this week would appear to be
bringing typical Mexican revolution
closer than ever. The Fascist Mexican
Nationalist Vanguard Is growing more
active in many of the states, while the
group IS becoming powerful IN Mexico
Federal District despite the death of its
leader Garcia early in the week in
serious clash when the Fascists attempt
ed to stop a Communist march on Vera
Cruz. where a boatload of Spanish 10y
alists was to be welcomed.
The root of the trouble Is that hun
dreds of Communists who fought in the
International Brigade of the Spanish
Loyalist armies have been finding
haven in Mexico. At the same time there
has been a heavy infiltration of Fascist
minded anti-Semites through a growing
commercial tie-up with Italy and Ger
many. who are buying oil from the eXpro-
priated American and British wells for
fueling of the Axis naVies. Thus. while
Mexico is fundamentally more Socialist
than Fascist, the latter are gradually
gaining an upper hand. The result may
soon be expected to turn Mexico into
little Spain"
Meanwhile our situation is unchanged.
Senator Reynolds has recently stated
that "beow the Rio Grande there reside
20,000,000 of our neighbors." Mexico, he
says, lis a government of anarchy-they
fly the red and black flag of revolu-
ton neither private property nor
individual investment is safe e. confis-
Gated farm lands belonging to Americans
and stolen oil wells dug by American
capital were acts Of exactly the same
nature as were committed against John
Bull who Immediately severed diplo-
matte relations with Mexico.
American-owned oil confiscated by the
Mexican government has actually been
shipped into the United States to be re-
fined. In the role of a renegade nation
Mexico offers trade advantages that are
not of the American style. Germany
buys American-Owned oil from cOnfisca-
tor Mexico at snap prices, and pays Mex
leo off in its goods of German manufac-
ture. Mexico is working out arrange
ments to sell these goods at low prices
in Latin-America and German steel, orig
mating in Mexico barter deals, has al
ready come into the United States. Our
own country. being compelled to meet
these conditions, is constantly losing a
large part Of its foreign trade; and the
situation embroils us more clearly than
ever with Old World nations, and creates
cleavage between them and the democra-
cies of the New World.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign Editor

\
The greatest immediate danger
and perhaps the key TO the final
decision in the struggle between
dictatorships and democracy lies in
the Mediterranean
France and Italy are the princi-
pals in today's conflict for power on
the shores Of that inland sea. But
actually the contest is a major
phase Of the worldwide struggle be-
tween the have" and the have
not" nations and Spain is the real
battle-ground.
Since FurCpe's big four avoided
war at Munich five months ago,
peace depends upon helter-skelter
race in which the democrati part
nership formed by Great Britain
and France. with indirect support
from the United States. has sought
to delay further international re-
adjustment until it could build up
its ornaments to equality with the
dictatorial front formed by Ger
many, Italy and Japan
Thus. in correlating and clarity
ing the day by day headlines OF
European conflict. it must be re-
memDercd that inc is on the side
Of the dcmocracies because OF their
superior resources. It must be re
nenncrCd that the sore spots sud
denly breaking out around the Med
iterr,ucau are not the result Of
spontaneous combustion but are a
part Of a pattern designed long ago,
that the dictators are now speeding
the weaving of the pattern.
One Of those sore spots IS the
sunDakcd Red Sea port Of Djiboutl
owned by France, coveted by Italy
Another is the frontier between
French Tunisia ard Italian Llbya
With many express belief Will be
the scene for the opening act OF
the next war.
Far more important, because OF
the accident Of geography, is Spain
There Britsin and France are nov
making q desperate and belated bic
tC offset the strategic footholc
which Germany ana IIaIy haFt
gained by active support Of The
triumphant Spanish rebel army
The highly doubtful outcome o.
that tue Of war for influence in tht
future Spain will 20 far toward re
Gliding dominance in the Mediter
ranean and. IN turn. toward peace
Of war in Europe.
Win the rise OF Fascism in Italy
Premier Benito Mussolini begar
talking Il q modern Roman empire
around the Mediterranean, Hi
dream was one Of the most effectiy
factors in keeping up Fascist NOR
ale and maintaining the Italian die
tatorship b. directing the aim 0
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
WHEN LABOR, INDUSTRY
BECOME UNBALANCED

IN the picture of Mexico painted by Al
e. Smith former FL Centran who spent
the last four months in the southern
republic i'm close toucn with business
leaders. American citizens should see
gloomy warning Of what may happen III
This country unless a proporuonate pal
ance is maintained between Labor ana
industry.
Mr.. Smiths description of life III Mex
ico is not that Of the usual tourist lhfu
business and social association he was
given an opportunity denied to most clu-
zens Of this or any other country 10
study Mexican conditions first hand.
An emplover in Mexico cannot fire an
emplove without consent OF the LABOR
union. Mr.. Smith declared. consequently
hardly anyone is ever fired. AS tufther
consequence. laborers work when theE
want to. play when they want TO- neglect
their Job if they wish. and generally con-
tribute to the bankruptcy OF business.
Why shouldn't they?
When a business finally goes broke II
is turned over to the government, ana liie
Government turns it back over to the Ia
borers themselves. They then become
owners-and work even less dlngenti!.
The result is that practically all goods
sold in Mexico today are manufactured
in either the United States or Germany.
Mexican factories are ceasing to produce
either efficiently or well.
It hasn't worked out at all as Mexican
radical leaders planned. It was intended
that everyone, instead of just feW'
would have plenty of money. Instead
nobody has any money but the tourist.
It is human nature that all but the
pifted few must be under some higher
authority, either to trust or fear. Inc
loss of a higher authority creates an un-
balanced state in which very little IS ac-
complished, and that with much bicker-
ing and strife.
Mexico has carried one theory OF labor
unionsm to its maximum application
and is suffering. The theory practiced be-
low the border is that a job belongs solely
and entirely to the man who is working
on it, and that he alone can say whether
he is to be discharged or not
There are certain elements in the radl-
cal unions in this country striving to
attain the same goal. There are unions
which contend no employer should dis
charge man without the consent of the
union.
When we can see, in Mexico, the result
of such policy, our intelligence should
be sufficient to steer Us wide Of d similar
one.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

take more more 1000 INTO the SyS-
tenn?
A clean tooth never decays.
DR. Thomen points out that
clean teeth frequently decay due
to the structure of the tooth or
the general condition of ones syS-
TEN.
That drinking vinegar will cause
YOU to lose weight.
Well. Lord Byron. the poet held
this disastrous belief. with the re-
suit that he killed his appetite for
wholesome foods. ruined his digeS-
ton, and wrecked his health gen.
orally. Under such circumstances
he would reduce If Lord Byron had
used one simple, commonsense
method. he could have reduced and
also saved his health. This meth
cd? Simply pushing his chair
aWay from the table when he had
lust sufficient food and before he
ate those extra bits which were the
cause of his avoirdupois.
That fish is food for the brain.
Science has proved that no one
food has any more value than an
other when it comes to nourishing
the brain. If you want to develop
mentally, nourish your brain
through thinking. A good book
closely read and studied, will dc
more for your brain than all the
fish in Finland. Our brains develoT
TO the greatest extent before We
are two years old-and our main
diet at that age is milk. Any gooc
food is brain food says the dec
tor.
That drowning person comes
tn the surface three times.
DR.. Thomen says when his lungs
fill with water. he won't come tt
the surface at all. Often however
the person will rise one or more
times before the lungs fill.
That overWork is the factor mos
largely responsible for fatigue.
Not at all, says DR.. Thomen. TINT
common reason, he claims, 10
chronic fatigue is an acidosis con
dition. Which means, that you arr
eating too many acid producin'
foods
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

As Economist John Flynn recent
" pointed out, one OF the Things
that is holding back business re-
covery is the increasing reluctance
of those who have money to risk
it except on sure things.
The old cycle OF three genera
tions from shirt-Sleeves to shirt
sleeves" has been interrupted by
investment devices and also by an
increasing timidity among moneyed
people
Perhaps the chances to make
money are fewer than they used TO
be, and perhaps increasing taxa
ton and other factors have loaded
the dice against the man who puts
up the money. But there Is also an
increasing timidity, an increasing
feeling that capital is entitled 10
a return" whereas the principle
used to be that capital is entitled
to a chance to make a profit.
As Flynn so we'll noted, capitalism
and free enterprise as system de-
pends just as much on the losses
as it does on the gains, and thc
continual Wiping out OF accumu-
lated capital is just as much fuel
TO capitalisms gas tank as the pill
ing up Of new.
That is why a recent advertise
ment is so fascinating. Oil stock
promoters used to advertise sure
things. You couldn't lose. Big mon
ey was just ahead by risking a pit
tance, only there was practically no
risk.
The SEC and other things have
put an end TO that. The advertise
ment in question is entirely frank
A gamble is being offered. The
promoter wants to drill an oil well
on some land he has acquired. He
hasn't the money. SO he offers 10
take in some partners who will take
q chance. IF they (geologists) are
wrong, / am going to wind up with
a dry mole in the middle OF just
a cow ranch. If they are right,
then we are headed for discovery
we'll ="
If you are willing to take d gam
ble where you will either lose every
dollar you put in it or win up TO
very many times what you put in
I am going to ask you" and SO
on.
That's certainly fair enough and
.refreshingly honest in comparison
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
Willis Thornton's Editorial Or
Will Those With Money Take Chance?

With 1923 "come-on" ads for OIL
stock. But will there be takers?
Don't forget that it was the un-
sung money tossed into dry holes
that built America, no less than the
well-lauded pioneers who hit oil.
Step up, gents, you pays your
money, and you takes your
choicei'
Is the well-known pioneer spirit
dead, the spirit of Danl Boone and
Davy Crockett, of Bill Cody and
Brigham Young the spirit even of
steve Brodie? Hey, dollarl Come
out from under that mortgage and
take a chance in Texas!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
Photographs

The General Federation Of Wom-
ems clubs will be so years old
April 25. 1910. It was organized
by G3 delegates from II states.
Now has 100000 members.
A "magnascope' will be on dis
play at the New York worlds fair.
1899. II is a new type Of projection
machine which utilizes living mod
els instead Of slides. Fair visitors
win be invited to be the models.
Horses are being replaced in
United States cavalry units by
motorcycles with light machine
guns attached 10 the handlebars.
Household decorators advise
building whole rooms decorative
scheme around one handsome
painting.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
Famous Sayings

WASHINGTON. - Administrator
Elmer F. Andrews is perfectly will
ing to get tough, if he has to. in
order TO enforce the wages and
hours law The first grand jury
indictment against an offender,
lust returned at Boston, is a good
indication of that.
Nevertheless, the law thus far
has met much less opposition than
might have been expected. There
has been nothing like the tidal
wave of litigation that greeted the
national labor relations act. No
one has gone to court to challenge
the laws constitutionality. Mr.. An
drews has only gone to court SIX
times to obtain compliance.
Considering the fact that approx
imately 100000 workers are COW
cred by the act, that record Is
trifle surprising.
Not that all is sweetness ana
light. Some 5000 complaints have
been flied by workers. The Wage
and Hour Division recently adaed
two dozen field inspectors TO us
force. giving it a staff of l28 men
who spend all their time checking
complaints.
Maybe one reason the record 10
date is rather mild is that IN any
SCRAP the Wage and Hour DIVISION
holds all the aces. 1t can proceed
against an employer in criminal
court. and the penalty for an en-
ployer convicted can be a fine OF
$lOOOO-or, for a second oflense'
six months in jail Or the division
can get a federal court injunction
restraining an offending employer
from breaking the provisions of the
law. If he goes ahead and breaks
them then he can be punlsneo
forthwith for contempt of court.
Lastly. worker can himself
bring suit to recover unpaid MN
imum wages or unpaid overtime
compensation. He can collect twice
the sum that is owed him; in ad'
dition. the employer can be asses
sed for the court costs and for "rea'
sonable attorneys fees"
The law went into effect las
Oct "a. 1t took time to organize
the staff, and the work was new
to most of the officers; if it hadn
been for that. the whole job prob
ably would have been dramatized
Scheme was to make the flrS
court case a heart-Wringer; to plcf
out the worst case on the BOOKS
preferably one in which poor-but
honest working girls were beint
exploited within an inch Of thei
lives-and make the welkin rlni
with it. The second case then
would be hand-picked with equa
care but would be less in th'
Nellie -the-poor -sewing-girl tradl
ton; 1t would involve the bigges
and most famous company tina
could be found
But if the top authorities eve
seriously considered this strateg
they had to drop it. The job wa
too big and things moved too fast
| The cases on which court actor
. was sought couldn't be hand-pick
} ed; they had to take EN- as the
came.
A few odd cases have croppe'
cut. One employer wanted III
g workers exempted because the
e were handicapped. When he wa
= questioned, it turned out that tn
y only handicap he could accuse ther
t of was the fact that they were 40
s year olds. CP. s.: he didn't max
o it,
Ten or a dozen civil suits hav
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
MISOUOTING DR.. NYLANDER

DR.. Towne Nylander contends he was
misquoted when a newspaper reported
him as saying of the National Labor Re-
lations Board, when we go into hear
ing, the employer hasn't a chance.
Many will be inclined to believe that
DR.. Nylander either was misquoted or
did not know newspaper reporter was
at the meeting when he spoke. For the
sake of argument, it might be granted
that be was misquoted
The fact remains that what he said,
or didn't say, is true. That is why 1t hurt,
perhaps. In nine cases out of ten, the
employer is helpless at a labor board
hearing.
So, if Dr. Nylander didn't say that, he
missed good chance to speak the truth
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
Mediterranean Holds Key to War or Peace
In Troubled Affairs of Frenzied Europe

the people toward new glories.
1t was only after Adolf Hitler
came into power in Germany that
it became more than a dream. Here
was a ruler, who, like Mussolini,
wanted something and was willing
to take chances to get it. The two
got together in what they called the
Rome-Berlin axis, meaning they
would help each other as long as it
was individually profitable.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
Dale
Carnegie

My old friend DR.. August A.
Thomson. of the College Of Medi-
cine, New York University, has
written a particularly fascinating
little volume entitled Don't You
Believe It." In it he says that many
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

popular fallacleS
of today that
should be dispos-
ed of are:
Feed a cold and
Starye a fever.
DIR Thomcn be-
lieyeS that a cold
is usually the re-
suit of fatigue or
clogging the SyS-
tenn with toe
much food. So
therefore, W h y
Ed ;,,ta t1Nn ctyC
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

hoon filed directly by employees The
Wage-Ho,r Vve Division doesn't draw
caTds ~Td in those suits; it says thaI
as far as it knows, all OF i,I lI'ose ,s,,
cases ca so far have been settled by
payment in full.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

And in the old days a bad man would
go around with notches on his gun han
die instead of on his fenders.-Toronto
Globe and Mail.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
Thoughts for the Day

For thou art my hope. Lord God; thou art my
trust from my youth-Psalms lis.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

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