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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-31
Poetic Thoughts
By MORRIS GIBBS. sr.
A Two Handed Game

two handed game is when two people play
The kind of brand most any day.
For two to play anything together good
Is considered quite feat in any neighborhood.
Pairs used in lots Of games,
Tennis cards and plays of hundred names.
But in all games the rule holds true,
When you play be fair with your opponents too.
Forgetfulness negligence, undue haste kindred acts
Don't excuse your way of playing when the backs
OF your opponents turned hard pressed for strength
Is you should be false at any length
Sometimes in the game desire to win
Makes forget that the other fellow can grin,
In the face of misfortune and turn disaster around
By proving they take it, and not make a sound.
two handed game can be full Of fun
If we remember the rules at the start of the gum
For in life two play a noble game
Which has competition and is not tame.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-31
fight.

night.
May it not be forgotten that in
the last great war our soldiers did
not actually get into it until a year
after we declared war.
1t would not take a year to hold
a referendum. Indeed a we'll in
formed source says that should be
reached in ten days-which GER
tainly is not too long to decide if
our men shall be sent like cattle to
be slaughtered, or stay home to
look after their own families.
have a great respect for money,
even other persons money. But l
still can't work up any great ire
mors of fear or regret for the man
whose income of a million a year
which this legislation would reduce
to a hundred thousand-he still
would have in a year more money
than 500 of our people earn in a
lifetime.
Dorothy Thompson, writer for
numerous dailies, for whose writ
ings l have large respect, cites in
opposition to this legislation, the
case of family with an income of
$4,000. Present taxes leave them
with $4,000 which this legislation
would cut in half in case of war.
They would have to sacrifice, says
Miss Thompson, do without serv-
ants, eat less expensive food, get a
cheaper fiat and send the children
to public school. And why not :?
We waste too much sympathy on
families like this who have more,
under all circumstances, than they
deserve. Pm thinking of the fam
lilies who seldom get enough to eat
or wear, find it hard to keep their
children in school. These families,
whose men folks furnish the ma
terial for war.
These are the people who ought
to be consulted when we contem-
plate war, and these are the peo-
pie who should be writing their
congressman today and saying mo
war, under any circumstances, I'M
less we are attacked" and eff you
vote Us into war let everybody
share the expense and the sacri-
fee"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-31
Crispus Attacks
Member Campaign
Workers Meet

The 1889 Membership Campaign
of the Crispus Attacks Home AS
ISOLATION was launched with much
enthusiasm on Tuesday, March 81.
After the business of the regular
monthly meeting, surprise box
lunch and an impromptu program
were enjoyed by the workers and
friends. Short talks and songs en-
gagged the members.
The program chairman, ]. R.
Lawrence, Jr., was the master of
ceremonies. Pep talks were given
to spur the campaigners on their
mission in the effort to raise $4,000
in individual and organization
memberships between March 81
and June 20. The Campaign chair
man, Mrs. Roberta Tyler, urged
old members to renew and new per-
sons to contribute memberships.
The city of st. Paul has been
divided into four zones with a cap
tain and workers in each zone to
make contacts. The captains and
their zones are: East of Dale and
south of Rondo, Mrs. Lear How
ard; east of dale and north of
Rondo, Mrs. Agnes Wilson; west of
Dale and north of Rondo, Mrs.
Roberta Tyler; west of Dale and
south of Rondo, Mrs. Jean Waters.
Memberships reported include:
Mesdames ]. E. johnson, Corinda
Gibson, Viola Searles; Messrs.
Lathrop Rogers, ]. R. Jones,
Charles Mccall, Otis Allen, A. W.
Frazier and John M. Patton. An
error in the last list of members
is also herein corrected. Mrs.
Ireta Walker Mcknight should
have been reported for a member
ship in the month of February.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-31
Home Town Boy Makes Good .

The old Boy Makes story
for the Twin Cities Sunday when Roy Wilkins national
educated will
will deliver addresses these cities behalf of NAACP
He left this section with a
university and of the outstanding country
and the editor of The Crisis Magazine.
Wilkins the assistant secretary
Association Advancement Cored People, potent
national champion for the Negroes civil rights
"Roy" many of his St Paul friends him,
royal "Home Town Boy Who Made Good
Of the most valuable American Negroes
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Welcome Hall
to Observe
Health Week

Welcome Hall Community Cen
ter, St. Paul, will observe Negro
Health Week with a mass meeting
Thursday night, April 6, in the
Welcome Hall Chapel at 1880 p. m.
The program for the evening is I'M
der the auspices of the Welcome
Hall Health Committee, whose
members are DR.. C. NJ. Young,
Louisville, KY, Chairman, Rev.
Clarence 7. R. Nelson, Camphor
M. E. Church, William C. Foster,
University of Minnesota, and Lath-
rop Rogers, st. Paul. The program
will consist of the following num-
bers: Music by the Federal Jubi-
lee Quartet, discussions by men,
bers of the Welcome Hall Health
Committee, and a sound picture,
"Let My People Live"
The National Negro Health
Week is under the supervision of
the National Negro Health Move
ment which was founded by Book
err T. Washington in the year 1915.
This years observance marks the
Silver Anniversary of the project.
The objective for the year 1889 will
be the Citizens Responsibility for
Community Health. The Health
Week program as outlined by the
National Negro Health Week Com
mittee has two definite detectives:
(1) To provide practical sugges-
lions for the local Health Week
Committees that conduct the OBJ
servances, and (2) To stimulate
the people as a whole to coopera-
tive endeavor in cleanup, educa-
tional and clinical services for gen.
eral sanitary improvement of the
community and for health better
ment of the individual, family and
home.
The time for the Health Week
was chosen as a memorial to Book
er T. Washington, its founder.
April 5 has been chosen as DR..
Washington's birthday, notwith-
standing the fact he states in his
autobiography, "Up From Slav-
ery," 81 do not know the month or
the year."
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-31
Here
Here
90. and 90.
There
By W. NJ. SMITH
By w. NJ. SMITH

Two measures now before the
Congress hold a deep interest for
the American people. Viewed in
the light of current history these
measures may be said to be vital to
Americas future; perhaps to the
future of the entire world.
One of these is known as the
Ludlow amendment. Its purpose is
to keep America out of war until
the people vote to enter, provided
its provisions do not hold in case
of an attack by a foreign foe
launched against the United States
or the Western hemisphere.
The other measure is in case OF
war, to take the profits out of bust
ness investments which grow from
such war.
With both of these measures ]
am in accord in principle. 1t is
quite possible each of these meas
ures may require a change from
the language in which they are
written in order to meet fairly and
equitable the just needs of those
who will be affected by their pro.
visions.
In the main, however, / should
like the privilege of deciding with
all our citizens the question as to
whether we wanted to go to war OF
not.
In the opinion Of this columnist
the second measure would prove
the greater deterrent to an un-
wanted war. If the sacrifices In
blood and suffering, sure to be met
by the man in the street, were to
be matched by the businessman
with the money increased sale Of
war material would bring there
would cease to be the great incen.
tive which reconciles so many Of
them to other mems deaths.
could readily agree to lister
to arguments advanced in gooC
faith against either Of these pro
posed measures.
But l have little patience will
arguments that are in the nature
Of camoufage, arguments which
evidently seek to dodge the issue
and have no basis in fact.
Like that brought forward t.
show that it would take too mucl
time for a referendum Of the PEG
pie; that our country called upol
to face o crisis, must needs dscid'
forthwith if it shall or shall no
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-31

New York City, March "a, 1889.
William Green Of the
American Federation of Labor, re-
Gently informed A. Philip Ran
dolph, International President OF
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, that the Executive Coun-
Gil at its mid-winter meeting, held
at Miami, Florida, in January,
granted the Brotherhood jurisdic-
ton over the train porters.
Train porters, according to Mr.
Randolph, in various parts Of the
country, have been requesting the
Brotherhood 70 accept thSm into
membership, for several years
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NOT GARNER!

the Democratic party wants to lose the majority Of the
million border Negro has during the last national
campaigns it has to nominate John Texas 194
The minute with Gamers background nominated that
minute thousands hundreds of thousands who
voted for Roosevelt will be lost the Democratic nationally
Neither union labor the Negro will elect
dent of this Most of this class d voting for him for vice
president with silent their lips that kind Providence would
not elevate him to the presidency.
The G. o. would welcome Gamers nomination
With his nomination they would not have much about regain
the Negro support the before Roosevelt the
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-31
Six Pages

This week you get your old six
page paper. How did it happen /?
Our advertising department got
plenty of cooperation from some
merchants and you, dear Reader,
are getting larger paper. Now
if you do your part and give these
merchants, listed elsewhere in this
paper, some of your patronage you
can't tell what might happen. You
might receive in your mail a ten
page paper some of these morn
ingsl
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-31

John Culver, general chairman of
the banquet, wishes to thank every
one of the 220 dads and sons who
attended and all those who cooper
ated in making the affair the sue
cess it was.
The Valley settler., 1939-08-04
PIPPLE SETTLEMENT

AccuGulotinG dissQtisfacti tion continued until both parties found themselves involved in the courts. After several hearings and attempts for settl lement, the c"se bee me t1ngled in technical ities of the law.
 Recently, when Mi. Pipple discuss ed sett1 1ement terms he W2s told to place them in writing before the board of Direc tors which lie did. Final settlement Wcs mede out of court on August l, in Anchorage.
 Mr. .Pipp2es plans for the future have not been revealed.
The Valley settler., 1939-08-04
CREAM CHECKS

Tn the future cream checks will be paid on the 5th. and 2Oth. of each month. All cream brought in to the creamery before the lst. and the fifteenth of the month will be paid on above dates re- spec lively, otherwise it will be firured in on the next cream check.
The Valley settler., 1939-08-04
SOIL CONSERVATION
 NLTC

The Extension Agent receives re- quests daily regardin the 1859 soil Conservation program. The application sheets have not yet been received for the Farmers sign natures. When they come, the Agent wi Il call at each farmers s place to check on his soil con- servation allotment. Most farmers will be able to qualify this year through oats and peas or oats and vetch. Any grain with a legume should qualify providing there is sufficient legmes growing on the land. There are also other crops and fertilizers which will qualify The Agent will visit your farm some inc in the near future.
 HOua r1 ES+e1 a
The Valley settler., 1939-08-04
CA,TEPY OPERATING

The new canning season is here md busy hustlinS preparations have been made to prep1Te the connery for operation before t he produce began coming in to be c.-nned. New clnnery m1chinUry =.. hcs lately arrived and had to be set up ct once. A crew of men h1ve been working early md late to do this. The first trial run W>s put out s turdoy. ".. MT. .C.d.Jcnes, cannery Foreman, arrived on the last boat to sup erintend the operation Of the c-nnery this yer. Mir .JCnes has had years of experience in cQnnery work md is one more impOrt1n member 4dded to the Coop admin istrGtive staff.
 Another impor rtant piece of machin- cry necessary to the valley is a new portable pea viner now being assembled at the g1roge. It is. expec ted to be reody for use this week. It w@s considered impossible to depend upon the one st4tion-ry pea viner located tt the c1nnery to handle all the peas in the Wiley this yer. It would be too long , haul for those farmers liv- ing f 1T out in the wiley.
The Valley settler., 1939-08-04
LGG PRICES UP

The increased demand for Matan- uska eggs has been greater than the present production. It should be encouraging to the farmers raising poultry to know that the price of eggs has raised.
The Valley settler., 1939-08-04

Howard Els telle
 Extension Agent
Evening star., 1939-06-22
State, Agriculture
In Accord on Trade
Pacts,' Wallace Says
Intention Of Resignine
Post in Cabinet
Is Denied

The New Deal was presenting q
united front today on its foreign
trade policies.
Reacting to reports that the State
and Agriculture Departments were
in conflict over the reciprocal trade
treaty program of the first and the
cotton export subsidy plan of the
second, Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace late yesterday issued state
ment to the effect that both depart
ments "are agreed that the trade
agreements programs represent the
soundest long-term approach to the
solution of the foreign trade rela-
tions of the United States, including,
particularly, the problem of DISPOSE
ton OF our agricultural export sur
pluses. This program recognizes
concretely the fundamental principal
that nation must buy If it expects
to sell.
Both departments, I believe,
recognize. however, that other pro-
grams of strictly agricultural
character, involving conservation of
our soil resources, are necessary
to the advancement of agricultural
welfare in the United States and
that these programs contribute to
the solution of the export surplus
problem and the welfare of the en-
tire Nation
Mr.. Wallace at the same time, at
his weekly press conference, took
occasion to deny any intention of
resigning his cabinet post despite
suggestion to that effect from the
Wisconsin Assembly and from the
Texas commissioner of agriculture.
Evening star., 1939-06-22

scribed this debate as a f1libuster,
said he could see little for the sill
verites to gain, inasmuch as passage
OF the monetary bill this month was
not considered absolutely essential.
He pointed out, however, that the
Treasury stands to lose 81 300, 900 in
revenue daily if expiring excise
taxes are not re-enacted by June 80.
He observed also that the w. P. A.
relief setup will end automatically
on that date if new legislation is not
enacted.
Determined to gain speedy ap-
proval of the tax measure, Senator
Harrison made it plain that his
forces would brook no attempts to
open the subject of individual in
come tax revision.
Senator La Toilette, Progressive,
OF Wisconsin, who introduced
amendments yesterday to broaden
the base Of individual income levies
and increase surtaxes, said he had
no disposition to delay passage of
the revenue bill, but thought the
need for his proposals was as great
as ever.
Evening star., 1939-06-22
Business Federation
Asks End of Privilege Tax

Repeal of the intangible personal
property tax and the death of the
business privilege tax were asked
in letter to the Senate District
Committee yesterday by the gen.
eral counsel AM chairman of the
Law and Legislation Committee of
the Federation of Business Mems
Associations.
Though he did not appear before
the committee hearing, J. Nelson
Anderson asked that a letter set
ting forth the associations views
be included in the hearing record.
A combined personal income-retail
sales tax was asked in the letter, as
we'll as a tax on parking lots of
2 per cent of gross receipts. The
letter also requested that real estate
and personal property taxes be re-
garded as elastic elements.
Evening star., 1939-06-22
D. 6. Taxes
Continued From First Page.)

table level temporarily for the COM
ing year, as a step toward the per-
manent solution In the Overton
formula.
Rates in Levy.
In this years business privilege
tax, which would expire June 80
unless the new bill passes, the rate
schedule is as follows:
For business establishments in
which the spread, or difference, be-
tween the cost of goods and the sale
price is between l and 3 per cent.
the rate is one-tenth of one per
cent on gross receipts; from 3 to 6
per cent spread, a tax rate of two
tenths; from to 9 per cent spread,
the rate becomes hree-tenths, and
above 9 per cent, a rate OF four
tenths.
In the redraft made public yes
terday the minimum rate of one
tenth of one per cent would apply
where the price spread is up to
5 per cent; two-tenths up to
spread of 10 per cent; three -tenths
where the spread is up to IS per
cent, and four -tenths on all above
a Is per cent price spread. Thus,
the lower rates cover a wider range
Of business transacted.
Burden Higher on Professions.
For professional men, however
such as doctors and lawyers-the
proposed new rate is one per cent
as compared with four-tenths of
one per cent in the present law.
The redraft also retains the new
tax rates on public utilities as in
the House bill-namely, 4 per cent
on gross receipts of the telephone,
gas and electric light companies
and 3 per cent on gross receipts of
the transit company. This is a re-
duction from per cent for the
railway company. Under existing
law the electric light and tele-
phone companies pay per cent on
gross earnings, while the gas COM
pany pays per cent on gross earn
ings. The net result would be $780,
900 additional revenue from utili-
ties.
Evening star., 1939-06-22
$3,060M $87OM

Committees of the Senate and to
the chairmen of the WAYS and
Means, Banking and Currency and
Appropriations Committees of the
House.
Sincerely,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
The President wrote Senator
Byrnes in response to the following
communication he received from the
Senator under date of June 10:
Dear Mr.. President:
"The resolution passed by the
House on the 18th, making an ap-
preparation for work relief, provides
that of the amount appropriated
$125 900, 900 shall be transferred to
the Public Works Administration.
You did not submit to the Con-
gress an estimate for an appropri-
alton for the Public Works Admin
istration. I wish you would advise
me what effect, in your opinion,
this transfer will have upon the
number of persons to be furnished
employment during the next fiscal
year, and whether or not you believe
the transfer wise.
Very respectfully,
JAMES F.. BYRNES."
Evening star., 1939-06-22

This program would stimulate a
greater amount of productive ex-
penditure than is indicated by the
total estimated loan disbursements
of $40 millions for the fiscal year
1910. Some parts of it will involve
additional local expenditures not
financed by Federal funds, and other
indirect expenditures will be gen.
Grated.
To give effect to the program out
lined above, some supplementary
legislation will be necessary. AS a
part, however, of the whole program
for stimulating productive employ
ment, I include another proposal
which will not require legislation in
addition to that now pending. This
is the expansion of the public hous-
ing program of the United States
Housing Authority through extend
ing its borrowing power by $780,
100000. I have already indicated my
approval of this legislation.
If you think we'll of such a pro-
gram as I have outlined I shall be
glad to confer with you and your
colleagues and with members of the
House of Representatives. I am
sending copies of this letter to the
chairmen of the Appropriations,
Finance and Banking and Currency
Evening star., 1939-06-22
Text of Presidents Letter
Roosevelt Outlines Plan for
Self-Liquidoting Public Works

President Roosevelts letter to
Senator Byrnes outlining a program
for self-lquidating public works
follows:
Dear Senator Byrnes:
I have your letter of the 10th in
which you ask my position as to
the provision of the Work Relief
and Public Works Appropriation
Act of 1899" as passed by the House
OF Representatives III. R. Res. 326)
which would allot $125 5,OOO,0 900 to
the Public Works Administration
for loans and grants for non-Fed-
eral public works.
I am opposed to this provision.
1t means simply that 165,OOO men
who are badly in need of work will
have to be dropped from the Works
Progress Administration rolls; men
who in the great majority of cases
are the sole support of families
whose subsistence depends on this
slender income. What will happen
10 most OF these men is that they
Will be forced onto already over
ourdened direct relief rolls of cities,
towns and counties, or, if these are
insufficient to care for them. onto
private charity.
I believe there is better way to
accomplish the laudable purposes
OF this bill. The great ma jority of
people Of this country have come to
realize that there are certain types
OF public Improvements and better
ments which should be undertaken
at times when there is need for a
stimulus to employment. At such
times the Federal Government
should furnish funds for projects of
this kind at low rate of interest,
1t being clearly understood that the
projects themselves shall be self
liquidating and of such nature as
to furnish maximum of employ
ment per dollar of investment.
There seems no reason why there
should not be adopted as a per-.
manent policy of the Government
the development and maintenance
OF revolving fllnd fed froy, tho
Evening star., 1939-06-22
Action on MacLeish
In Senate Delayed
By Austin's S Study
Vermonter Will Make
Careful Perusui of
Qualifications

Confirmation Of the appointment
Of Archibald MacLeish as librarian
of Congress was being withheld in
the Senate today pending long and
careful study by Senator Austin,
Republican, of Vermont.
Called up yesterday after having
been reported favorably by the SEN
ate Library Committee, the nomi-
nation was continued on the calen-
dar at request of the Vermont Sem
ator.
Meanwhile, despite opposition of
the American Library Association to
Mr.. MacLeish on grounds that the
poet and editor lacks technical ex-
perience as a librarian and is not
a member of the organization, stan
officers of the institution indicated
they feel no misgivings about his
qualifications.
Staff members regard the opera
ton of the largest library in the
world as somewhat different from
that of other, run-of- mine IL
braries. Here. with millions of
books, the librarian has upward of
two dozen separate divisions, each
doing an important work, each head
ed by experts. He could find 100
men to recite card indices back
ward and forward.
What the library needs is a man
with vision and a love of books" +"
the head of one important division
told the Associated Press. TT doesn't
matter so much whether he is a
trained librarian. His job is an ad-
ministrative one"