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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-08-12

one night after boycotting measures
were enacted. Think on this. There
is group interested in this problem
so much interested that bomb-shell
action is to be ripe within the next
two monthsl !
PersOnages Glimpsed in a Down
Town Rush: Paul Jordan astraddle his
new English racing bike which is now
climbing the hills of Nartha's Vine
yard. Lovely Mae Bailey as usual
strictly Miss Vogue" in such a non
chalant manner. Joe Bardouille
rushing about in a frcnzied manner.
.. Leroy Daniels on one of his fire.
quent shopping jaunts. =. Elmer Good
ridge patiently pacing to and fro on
one Of the corners waiting for Thelma
Guy. Verbal circulations aver that
Joe Chandler and Grace Gallighan are
soon to take that middle-aisle waltz.
Weekly Advice: To dolly" of
"Dolly's Market: You could insure
yourself much more trade were you
to cash those checks brought in by
persons who would like to be custom
ers. Sidney Baker is said to be
quite depressed due to the fact that
beautiful Dot Cameo GirD Holt is
out Of town these summer months.
The ofay tabioids are heralding 18
year-old Joe Batiste of Texas, sepia
track flash, as a second Jesse Owens.
Batiste made nationwide recognition
this past week when he placed first
and third in track and hurdle events
in London's (England) "pre-Ovlmpic
Review" More Father Divine
Chatter: You would be surprised over
the fuss the New York politicos make
over Divine to capture his votes
Fathers" word is law-the CANCELS"
vote as he dictates. Mentioned he is
scheduled to appear at our Boston
Arena in the very near future. I
wonder if he will continue from here
down to Newport? A card from
Leon Bailey who is up at Lake Gorge
pulling in the gelt to meet "the man
with the hammer" down at school
(Note: "hammer man." treasurer of
College,. Whether you know it or not
Bailey has drawn the plans for four
buildings which have been erected on
his campus-A & T College in N.
Car-while engrossed in this work
Leon had no more than two hours
sleep night! !! Odd Note: Saw my
first drunken Chinaman t'other night.
And so long until next week Il mean
it this time) E. See you then. 70.
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ECHOES of the
n. n. C. w. Convention
By DANIEL T. SKINNER

!: ! 1:
Now that Miss Gladys Holmes.
President of the Mass. Federation of
Colored Women's Clubs, and Mrs.
Fannie Lonon, Treasurer of the Ma
tional Convention Committee, have
returned from the Northeastern Fed
Grafton annual convention at Hartford.
Conn, all can look back upon the
most successful women's meet ever
held in the Hub. Boston played host
to 1900 visitors; there were in all
1893 voting delegates. 1t. Gov. Cahill
of Mass. was among those who sent
letters of congratulation The mana
gers of Symphony Hall and Horti-
cultural Hall praised highly the con-
duct of the group.
Mrs. Jennie Motion, President of the
National organization, was heard in a
special broadcast over Station WBZ
on Thursday July 27,
A prominent business man ex-
pressed the view that, as a result of
the N.A.C.W. Convention the stock
of Colored America had risen 400 per-
cent. This is just as Mrs. st. Pierre
Ruffin would have wished it.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-08-12
The House
By LAURA M. LARRABEE
g Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.

THE old Page house, as it was
L called, stood well back from the
street, at the end of a winding
driveway, shaded by stately elm
trees. 1t was a large, squarely-
built, white house with green blinds
and many, many windows, that glis-
tened in the sun. The house was
topped by two enormous, red brick
chimneys. Rambler roses, that were
a riot of beauty and color, twined
lovingly above the massive front
door where an old-fashioned, brass
knocker hung, furnished and bro
ken.
This used to be the show place Of
the town when Colonel Page was
alive. But now it was only a shah
by old house, mellowed by memo
ries of by-gone grandeur. Still, there
was something infinitely lovely
about the old house yet. But LLAMA,
the last of the Pages, and it's present
owner, did not think Sc :.
She sat in a low chair before the
window, rocking modify back and
forth. The rocker squeaked gently,
and continually inched toward the
fireplace as though preferring to
make it's exit that way. Diana
hitched it back impatiently.
''This old chair is like everything
else about the place." she said
Grossly, "old and worn out"
She glanced defiantly at grand
fathers picture hanging over the
mantel. Everything about this place
was old, oldi She hated it, hated it
all! She wished granddad had not
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willed it to her. He had often be-
moaned the fact that she, the last
of the Pages, had been born a girl.
Well, she wouldn't be Page-when
she married Robert Warren in the
fall.
Diana's gaze rested for a moment,
without approval, upon the tall ma
hogany clock ticking away compla-
Gently in its corner, where it had
stood for SO years or more. She
was even provoked with Bob, on this
nice June morning, for suggesting
last night that perhaps she would
rather have him fix the old place
up in preference to building a new
bungalow.
Diana cupped her round, dimpled
chin in her small, white hand and
fell to musing; happy day dreams
these were. They would build a
bungalow like Mrs. Winslow's
across the street, with a darling
little breakfast nook in the kitchen.
But Mrs. Winslow complained it
was hot over there in summer, with
no shade trees. Oh, well, one did
not have to rake driveway in the
fall when the leaves came tumbling
down; then
Back came the same old bother
some subject. The house! What
would she do with it! Sell it? No,
for no one would buy such an old
place. She looked at granddad's
picture defantly. Then, she
stamped her small foot angrily (did
I tell you Diana had red hair?).
st hate this old house, granddad,"
she said. IT just wish it would burn
down-fat!"
But wishes, sometimes, come
true, and there came a day Diana
never forgot. Beginning, one aft
ernoon, with a small boiler explo-
sion in the box factory, flames,
famed by a high wind, spread with
appalling rapidity until the whole
town of Lynnfeld was threatened.
All night Diana crouched by her
bedroom window and watched that
dread wall creap nearer and near
err. She saw greedy flames scale
the tail church steeple and then
a blackened shadow-topple over.
Many people would be homeless be-
fore morning. Suddenly something
gripped her throat like iron bands.
Perhaps, before morning, she too
would be homeless.
ooh, never meant that" she
sobbed aloud. IT don't want my
dear old house to burn" All, she
had been wicked to wish such a
terrible thing. And now her wish
was coming true. Her home, her
fathers home, her granddad's
home, the home of all the Pages
was going to burn-fat!
81 will never leave my dear old
house, neverl" she sobbed. eff it
burns, then will burn with it."
But what was that p0ise? Oh,
the doorbe1. y
Diana hurried into bathrobe and
slippers and went downstairs in the
dark to open the front door.
II thought I'd run over to tell you,
smiled Mrs. Winslow. Everything
is all right. My husband just called
up. He has been down there fight
ing the fire, and he said they have
it under control now and expect to
have it out entirely in a few hours"
The reaction was so great that
Diana could feel herself trembling
violently.
Mrs. Winslow put a comforting
arm about her. You poor DEAR"
she said, 81 know how bad you
must have felt.
"a bungalow like ours could be
rebuilt in a short time, but a won
derful old place like this one could
never duplicate. have always en-
Wed you your home, Miss Page. II
you ever want to sell it, T."
ooh, never, never!" solemnly de-
clared the last of the Pages.
Evening star., 1939-12-07
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Evening star., 1939-09-02
Republicans Also Helped
Merchant Marine.
BY Thomas r. Henri.
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor of The Star
In the editorial on "A New First Lady"
the impression Is conveyed that the
merchant marine was neglected during
the administrations of Presidents Cool
idge and Hoover. But, of course. know
very we'll that such was not your inten-
tion. You will be glad I am sure, to
grant me space to call attention to
the fact that both Mr.. Coolidge and Mr..
Hoover had programs for merchant ma
rine development. The Grace Line put
into service four new ships, built at the
Kearney yards, between October, 1882.
and March, 1888. Similarly, the United
States Lines brought out the Manhattan
in 1882 and the Washington in 1893. The
Dollar Line, the Matson Line and other
operators also, believe, were expanding
their facilities during the same period,
On August 2l, 1882, the New York Times
reported that the Bureau of Navigation
and Steamboat Inspection had found
that American shipyards were buster
than ever before in three quarters of
century. Congress passed Merchant
Marine Acts in 1920 and 1923, Republi-
cans in both cases leading the fight for
them. The New Deal certainly is en-
titled to full credit for what it is doing
in behalf of American shipping now, but
the New First Lady" is by no means
the first great vessel ever planned or
launched by the American people.
August 81. ALDEN WARD
Evening star., 1939-09-02

YEAR, as bringing order and stability to
this holiday. And another advantage
was gained. The fourth Thursday falls
midway between the election holiday and
Christmas. And four weeks before
Christmas also gives business full time
for the Christmas trade
Now comes the Presidents suggestion
for next year. For the benefit of ad-
vance planners and calendar makers he
has announced his intention to place
Thanksgiving next year 1940) on the
third Thursday in November (the 21st).
We appreciate this forethought. If it
Is the Presidents intention to place
Thanksgiving next to the last Thursday
In November. Thanksgiving will come
about five weeks before Christmas and
two weeks after the election day holiday
With such an arrangement the more or
less equal placing of Thanksgiving be-
tween the above ve-mentioned holidays is
gone.
We had hoped the President would
have proclaimed the fourth Monday in
November for the Thanksgiving observ-
ance. 1t was on Monday that the Pill
grims observed their first Thanksgiving
and a fourth Monday would secure a
nice equal spacing between the holidays.
The news of the Presidents proclaim
ing Thanksgiving on the fourth Thurs
day this year and the third Thursday
next year (the next to the last Thurs
day. should clearly show America that
what is needed is not so much stabilized
holidays impossible of attainment in our
present calendar), but stabilized calen-
dar, a calendar that is every year the
same just as are our clocks.
We welcome the discussion on the
Thanksgiving Day change, as it leads
us to think seriously on a stabilized cal
endar: The perpetual World Calendar of
II months and equal quarters, wherein
the present confusion arising from the
change in week days and month dates is
forever eliminated. Let us use our COM
mon sense and place the value of discus
sion where it actually belongs-on a sta
bilized calendar, wherein holidays, week
days and month dates will be every year
the same. Thus order. begets order and
stability removes present confusion.
ELISABETH ACHELIS.
President, The World Calendar
August 81. Association.
Evening star., 1939-09-02
New Skyline Drive Link

Colncident with the gathering of
war clouds over Europe, this country
has achieved another conquest of
peace-the completion of the final
section of Skyline drive in Shenan-
doah National Park. With the aid of
Americas great peacetime army,
the Civilian Conservation Corps,
which carried out the landscaping,
the new section of the drive extends
from Swift Run Gap to Jarmans
Gap, where it links with new nine
mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Ma
tional Parkway.
The highest and most beautiful
area of the Blue Ridge is opened to
the motorist in the forty one mile
link in the projected mountain high.
way which eventually will extend
from Front Royal, Va, south through
Virginia, across Northern North
Carolina, the Cherokee National For
est and the Great Smokes National
Park to a terminal 500 miles away
near Knoxville, Tenn.
Like the other sections of the drive,
Evening star., 1939-09-02
Folger Library Prompts
Thoughts on Human Tragedy.


Thoughts on Human Tragedy.
To the Editor Of The Star:
This afternoon, while the rest Of the
world went to war, I made pilgrimage
with group of friends to the Folger
Library, where all was peaceful and
serene and the conflict in Europe seemed
very far away.
We fingered in the little playhouse,
the beautiful Gothic exhibition hall, the
quiet reading room, looking at relics of
people and times long dead; people and
times not vastly different from our own,
perhaps, yet secure against any further
loss, exempt from any further damage.
But We were not unmindful of the debt
of gratitude we owe to those who have
rescued the distant past from the threats
Of the perilous present. Love had mott
vated them to bring these treasures from
their native England. Their wisdom was
manifest in the choice of the Capital of
the United States for their preservation
With the Atlantic Ocean to guard them,
they will not be destroyed by missiles
hurled through the helpless sky.
Yet, as came away, returning to the
challenge of the hour, thought of the
garnered fruits of civilization which
have not been brought to sanctuary here.
Notre Dame in Paris, the Abbey and ST.
Paul's in London, the monumental maj
esty of the cathedral at Cologne, the
ancient brick churches of Warsaw and
Krakow and Danzig, mayhap even ST..
Peters in Rome-all these may be
wrecked and desecrated in the weeks
that lie ahead. I thought of the Louvre
the National Gallery Canterbury and
stratford, the walls of Carcassonne,
Strasbourg, the museums in Berlin, the
Roman theater at Orange, st. Marks in
Venice, Florence and Vienna, the book
shops in Leipzig, the Westphalian farm
country under careless moon, Oxford
and Edinburgh, the markets in Brussels,
the Parliament buildings in Budapest
pictures of them came to me in fright
ened confusion. Were they-any Of
them-to be sacrificed for momentary
political advantage? I felt ashamed OF
the human family for its consent to
such a crime. But I knew that the
masses-the plain and humble millions
have not consented! No, their function
has been merely to follow where the
false prophets led. Shakespeare would
have understood their tragedy. Those
who visit his shrine possibly will find
there aid to comprehend 1t In some pitt
full measure, j. w. F.
September 1
Evening star., 1939-09-02

which has proven so popular with
the public, the new link is to be de-
veloped with hiking trails, picnic IA
cilities and overnight accommoda-
tions. The most important feature
needed at the earliest possible mo-
merit, however, is guard rails at dan
gerous spots along the twenty-fo
wide highway. Motorists are urged
to exercise extreme caution as in
some places the road is built along
cliffs that drop 100 or 200 feet down
mountainsides.
The new drive will provide most
visitors a sanctuary in which to
drive, to hike, to fish and to draw
inspiration from beautiful, peaceful
scenery. 1t is reassuring to know
there Is demand for such things in
America and that those in authority
have the vision to meet the demand.
Evening star., 1939-09-02
Thanksgiving Date Held
Always Movable.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Thanksgiving Day has always been q
movable holiday. The early Pilgrims, the
Colonies, America, down through the
Revolutionary War and up to Lincoln's
proclamation, have observed this feast
day on different days Of the week in DIFF
ferent months and in varying years.
Abraham Lincoln gave the holiday 4
semblance of stability when he selected
the last Thursday in November for its
annual observance. He nationalized the
Thanksgiving Day for US. But even then
1t still wandered between the fourth and
fifth Thursdays because in our present
changeable calendar both these Thurs
days can be the last Thursday in the
month.
We hailed President Roosevelts first
proposal to observe Thanksgiving day on
the fourth Thursday (November 23, this
Evening star., 1939-09-02

collected, but this was q side-pocket COL
lecting, milk bottle caps and the like,
with no credence given to 1t.
+ ~
There is no such jolt today In hfes
education as young men were exposed to
years ago, when they found-to their
huge delight-that in after life they
were seldom required to answer "ques-
tions," or stand examinations, in set
form.
What they learned, they got either be-
cause life demanded 1t of them or they
wanted to, which amounted to much
the same thing. A question had to be
answered, in each case, but in school
days 1t was a direct answer to some one
who instantly said right" or wrong"
whereas in after life 1t might be years
before you found out whether your an
swer had been right"
Joyfully one learned, in this newer
education, that life was altogether diff
ferent from set series of questions and
answers, and that often the fellow who
seemed to have the least really had the
most. The dumb boy at the foot of the
class in later life popped up with "all the
answers" he needed at exactly the time
he needed them, and for exactly the
necessary purpose, without single wise
guy" sitting In judgment over him.
Classroom, liferoom-they are nearer
today than ever, but still quite far apart.
All these good people who love to listen
nd
and answers on the radio are really man.
ifesting preference for their childhood,
no matter how old they are. They hap
pened to be the ones best suited to that
mode. The rest will gladly turn to
something else, just as they do in life.
and forget about what they do not know,
thankful that no one is going to demand,
Answer yes or MOI"
The more educated a man is, in any
sense, the surer he is that questions and
answers really mean very little We
know very little, no matter how much we
know.
1t isn't the questions, and it isn't the
answers, but what you do with them,
which makes your life happy.
Here Is man with everything, the
world says, and he is miserable. We
know him and so do you. Here is an
other fellow, who refuses to let the ques-
ton and answer boys bluff him, and he
is a success, both in his own eyes and
in those who are willing to view life
honestly.
Early education is vicarious massing
OF experiences. Some one says, You
must know so-and-so," and you say, "Yes,
sir, tell me the answer and 1 will shoot
1t back to you" Later education shows
every question and answer keyed to
real need Of the self, not to somebody
else's questions. There is that much diff
ference. 1t is an amazing discovery
which most Of US make when we get out
of school, and many of us have not yet
got over the thrill and happiness Of it.
Evening star., 1939-09-02

retary Of the Interior Harold l.. Ickes
approved report on the subject,
signed by Undersecretary Harry
Slattery.
The difficulties involved in the
opening Of the Territory to settle
ment by exiles from abroad admit
tedly are serious. Congress neces-
sarily must pass legislation letting
down existing bars against such
immigration. Permission to reside in
Alaska could not be regarded as a
license to use Juneau, Sitka and
Anchorage merely as back doors" to
easy citizenship, with the right to
remove as early as possible to the
cities Of the Atlantic seaboard, which
already are overcrowded with people
to whom fate has been unkind.
Money in considerable quantities
likewise would have to be provided.
The refugees, stripped of most of
their worldly goods, could not be
expected to finance themselves. At
the start at least they would have
to be capitalized by friends and
perhaps by the Government of the
United States. Granted that even-
tually they would contribute to what
Mr.. Ickes calls "a sound Alaskan
economy" it must be realized that
many years would be required for the
establishment of a quid pro quo
relation.
The Secretary points out that ut is
matter Of serious national concern
that Alaska, with a territory, climate
and resources equal to all Scandi-
navia, now has a static population Of
about 10000, compared with a popu-
lation of 100000 in Scandinavia. ]"
Certainly, the American public, as
Mr.. Ickes says, should not neglect
the challenge of the potential riches
OF "our last frontier" But the un-
developed resources and opportun-
tiles in Alaska should be a matter
of comfort rather than concern to
the United States, where such large
portion OF the population has been
left stranded by the subjugation Of
old frontiers.
Evening star., 1939-09-02
Says War in Europe
Was Inevitable.

10 tne EDITOR OF lne SIar.
Our Congress and our President real
lie that nothing can be gained by con-
troversies over the past. They know that
nothing anybody either did or failed to
do would have or could have stopped a
crazy man, madman. They know that
a conflict between decency and sanity
on the one hand and madness, defeat
and dishonesty on the other had reached
the stage where one or the other had to
have the ascendancy for a long time.
They realize that there is but one pos
sible answer. Let us rather concentrate
our energies and attentions henceforth
toward q triumph of right, decency,
sanity and principles that liberty shall
not perish from the face of the earth,
and It's great reservoir, America, shall re-
main undepleted. undaunted, victorious.
September /. H. H. ENTZ.