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Evening star., 1939-07-30

when she had power.
But Johnnie kept close watch of the time
and soon he took in his lines. lifted his poles
and ran back She was tossing in the first swells
when he came alongside.
Get aboard he commanded.
'I1l stay here while you tow me-" Rose
mary commanded.
Get aboard" he repeated 'Im not towing
you"
But my boatv she protested.
What about it,"
1T will be wrecked"
"Sure," Johnnie said. "Or maybe fisher
man will find it and get salvage"
"You can tow it while you take me home"
she cried angriy. There's no need, because
broke down y"
Get wise, brat!'. Johnnie snapped. what
you think tangled that line in your propeller
for?''
A new startled look came into her eyes.
rs that what stopped the motor?"
Johnnie laughed harshly. Figure you could
beat me at my own game? warned you to
keep away"
The speed boat was rolling badly now. He
abbed gaf into the mahogany oombing.
This is your last chance" he said.
Rosemary hestated. His anger was different
than when he came aboard the Sea WITCH He
was not shouting now, or threatening. His blue
eyes and rugged face had a new hardness.
YOU'RE an ugly beast!" she exclaimed, but
she leaped.
Johnnie turned back into the pass and there
lowered poles set lines and adjusted the throttle
to trolling speed. Rosemary watched from the
wheelhouse.
''You told me there are plenty of fish in the
sea-" he said 'All right. Get EN-
What do you mean?"
you're going to fish. Catch those three
hundred and sixty bluebacks you washed off
my deck yesterday. Get another hundred for
what you lost me today"
Don't be absurd" Rosemary said, but he
caught touch of fear in her voice.
"You won't leave this boat until you do.
And, if you1lnotice there aren't any witnesses"
blueback struck.
Pull it in" Johnnie commanded. and when-
she did not move he started toward her.
That spanking promised you" he said.
II can do it now Going to work."
She returned his stare. Hate shone in her
eyes, "You bully!" she cried.
Johnnie laughed. That's good. coming from
you. You're the meanest bully I ever saw.
Thought you could always play it safe. Fish
ing?" He took another STEP and there was no
doubling that he intended to go all the way.
She jumped for the line.
1t whipped from her hands.
Hang ont" Johnnie called. PULL"
Rosemary was yanked toward the rail as the
salmon fought flriously. Anger glinted IN her
eyes when yard of line was jerked through
her hands, She settled back to pull. kept pulling
until the heavy lead sinker and Topping fish
were on deck.
Johnnie did rot see this He was killing fish,
They we're in the bluebacks again and every
second counted. Only when Rosemary's catch
Topped onto his feet did he look up.
Club it" he said. Get that hook back to
work" He tossed short, heavy stick to her,
turned to his own lines. Rosemary watched
him. With strength and skill, long swinging
hand over hand pull, he seemed to make play
of it. She tried again, with more certainty now;
soon had her second fish aboard.
The run lasted two hours. When it ended,
Johnnie Strengthened an aching back. Rose
mary looked at her own hands.
- H. oil
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
L WILL DESPISE II


"You have a voice such as we are
privileged to hear only once in a CEN
tury."
This was the opinion which the
great musician, Arturo Toscanini, ex-
pressed of Marian Anderson, world
famous Negro singer.
But it matters little to the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution at
Washington that Marian Anderson is
a great artist. She is also a Negro wo-
man. And to be a Negro is to be marked
for persecution by these ladies who
dare to call themselves daughters of
the revolutionary uprising which made
America a nation.
The concert of Miss Anderson was
cancelled because the OAR. cancelled
her engagement at their hall in Wash
ington, D. c., this week.
It would be a good idea if these
ladies would take a look at a document
which must sound like rampant radi-
calism" to their aristocratic ears, the
Declaration of Independence-all men
are created free and equal"
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11

ton permits its physicians to apply
available methods for the prevention
and cure Of congenital syphilis.
Whoever accepts responsibility for
the health of a child, born or unborn,
should know that medical science has
provided strong defenses against the
spread Of syphilis to children.
Whoever is moved by pity for the
child victims of this infection should
spread the simple hopeful truth that
c~ongenital syphilis can be prevented.
Whoever wishes to give practical
helpful effect to these feelings of re-
sponsibility and pity will aid organized
efforts to reduce the prevalence and
lessen the ravages of syphilis in the
adult as well as the child problem.
Every expectant mother, as a first
and important precaution should insist
early in pregnancy, upon an examina-
ton and test for syphilis.
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11

as q s~elf-respeetng corpse would need
the Persian equivalent OF a respectable
burial.
Fortunately for Omar, death did
not ambush him and send him to a
paupers grave. lie lived to 4 ripe old
age. Furthermore, he had made a vow
with two schoolmates during his Adde'S
cent period that If any one of the three
should become rich, he should share
his fortune with the other two. One,
Nizam I'll Mulk by name, rose to wealth
and political power, and kept his part
of the ~schoolboy pledge. Omar turned
astronomy, lived comfortably on the
pension given him by his friend, and
was buried just outside a garden where
fruit laden trees dropped their flowers
upon his tent.
Without the stroke of fortune,
which elevated Nizam I'll Mulk, Omar
might have continued disregarding the
future, and perhaps have found his fin
al resting place in some unmarked plot.
Any one of a thousand accidents might
have cut short his early hayward
career in circumstances which could
produce no friend or relative to provide
decent burial. Had such been the case,
it would have proved (even though at
too late a date for him to do anything
about it, the truth Of the Koran precept
that mo mar knows where he sail die
Among people today there are far
too many Omar Rhayyams. Living for
the moment they fail utterly to remem-
Der that Death makes no exceptions.
Consequently, when their times come,
no provisions have been made to pay
the undertaken, and their mailing adj
dress from then on, is a simple pot
ter's Field"
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
EDITORIALS
WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT

-. Passage of laws is useless if en-
forcement and whole-hearted public
cooperation Is not assured. Americas
advances against syphilis must be con-
elusive, carried; through to ultimate
victory if u people are to be free OF
this menace to life, health and happl-
ness.
During the past three years many
gains have been made toward control
of the disease. New legislation, amend
nents, improvements in medical and ed
acational facilities-all have been vic
tories.
But these victories were based on
winning a long series of antecedent bat
ties in this wal against syphilis. The
famous answer, 1--WE have just begun
Ia fight" must apply with undated
force if permanent results are to be
achieved.
Americans are prone to fight for
a new law and then say, We've fixed
WldC, dIlU ltdNc ueIlCu Ol1lCIdlS
without public support, personnel or
appropriations to do the job the law in
tended.
This must not happen in the anti
syphilis campaign. Youth and their
elders must see the job through. The
fight on fdrty-eiaht fronts is on in
earnest. Forty-four state legislatures
meet this year. Many impractical laws
need revision, some new ones are de-
sirable-and after these have been pass
ed, the public must give one hundred
per cent continuous support to all those
who are concerned with carrying on the
authorized activities.
Ask the Surgeon General has said.
"the conquests of syphilis is a task for
the whole people," He might have add
ed that the fight must command the
whole attention of the whole people.
Social Hygeniene.
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
BUYERS GUIDE
by Clarence H. Peacock

American people spend more than
900 million dollars annually for shoes.
Of this amount Colored people spend
approximately rs million dollars a year.
Yet government statistics show that in
1886 there were only Ia shoe stores in
the entire country that were owned and
operated by Negroes.
These fourteen shoe stores did a
total business of $4,000 for that year.
They employed eight full-time employ
ees. Their total annual payroll was ap-
proximately $4,000. One can readily
see that as a group we are getting pit
fully small returns from our combined
purchasing power.
This is n of the many examples that
show and prove that Colored people
have the buying but are neglecting to
use it to their advantage. This tremen-
dous buying power of our people (esti-
mated at three billion dollars a year, is
being squandered and wasted for the
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
ASBSTRACTIONS AND REALITIES

Omar Rhayyam had the right idea
for Eleventh Century Persia. His phil
osophy was enjoyment pleasure, quaff-
ing deep the cup of life without thought
of the future. Tomorrow" he asked.
"Why tomorrow I may be myself with
Yesterdays Sewn Thousand Years"
And so Omar lived. He must have
known that some day he would die, and
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
CAN THIS TRAVESTY CONTINUE

Childen have always been the most
pathetic victims of syphilis. Back into
the middle ages We can follow the sor-
roWful procession of children, blind,
deaf, deformed and insane because of
this infection. Due to it untold humid
reds of thousands of children have died
IN infancy or before birth.
Until recent times physicians and
parents helplessly watched this tragedy
impotent to prevent the relentless des-
truction of sight, hearing, sanity and
life. Generations of doctors saw disas-
ter single out families without know
ing how to save the children.
Now ~congenital syphilis is almost
completely preventable. Not only is it
%preventable, but it is generally durable.
The means are in cur hands to end the
sad succession of syphilitic children
and those means are practical, simple
and inexpensive.
Yet each year in modern America
$4,000 children are born with congeni-
tai syphilis and many of these child
rem suffer the very same fate that
would have been theirs three centuries
ago.
Can such a travesty of medical
progress continue? Not when the ma
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
The u. S. Navy maintains Sc CON-

The U. S. Navy maintains Sc COM
plete bands and orchestras with a per-
sonnet of 1,045 men, on board ships of
the Fleet and on shore stations, in vari-
Gus parts of the world. To keep these
many bands and orchestras we'll round
ed out with trained musicians the u.
S. Navy maintains a Navy School of
Music at Washington, D. G. The course
of instruction is most thorough and
complete and cover a period of two
years, after which training is supple
mented by additinal instruction.
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
600

All Naval vessels, when passing
Washington's Tomb at Mount Vernon
parade the full guard and band, half
mast the colors and toll the ships bell.
When opposite the Tomb, taps is sound
ed on the bugle the guard presents
arms, and the officers and men stand at
attention.
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
o0o

For the first time in our history,
the United States Navy is manned al
most entirely by native born Americans.
Grand totals, andthey are pretty grand
at that, show only 1873 of the Nays of
ficers and only 1915 of the Nays en-
listed men are listed as born under
foreign flags.
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
-O()o
1t Better Be Good

Lucy: And you say that your hus-
band makes good money?
Dora: Sure, he has. to, or he could
not stay in business.
Lucy: That's interesting. What bus
mess is he in?
Dora: He's a counterfeiter.
--0OO--
Jones: Hello Brown! Are you using
your skates tonight?
Brown: I'm afraid I am.
Jones: Splendid Then you won't
mind lending me your tux.
Prof: Take this sentence: "Let the
COW be taken out of the lot" What
mood?
Frosh: The cow.
-oOo--
Victim: Gosh! Your husband Is
fresh, isn't he?
Housewife: Yes, he's a new one.
Court Scene
Judge to Prisoner: Say, when were
you born?
No reply,
Judge: I say, when was your birth
day?
Prisoner: (sullenly) What do you
care? You amt going to give anything.
Judge: Yes I am. Thirty days.
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
ARR NEGRO BOXERS
EXPLOITED?

That six OF the twelve boxers on the
card at Madison Square Garden last
Thursday night were Negroes, would
seem to indicate that at least the Me-
gro boxers gets a better break in New
York city than elsewhere. On the other
hand, many of these receive a smaller
guarantee than boxers of other races,
and usually have to split up their earn
ings with numerous managers, promo
ters. trainers, etc. SO that while they
draw large crowds to the boxing en-
poriums, their earnings are much small
Ter than they should be. Recently Joe
Louis, the heavyweight champion, made
the statement that actually only 30
cents of every dollar he earns reach
him. And many other boxers of the
race get an even smaller percentage
than he.
Such a condition, we believe is due
largely to the fact that boxing has be-
come something of a racket in the
Empire State. In order to work, a color
ed boxer must pay large commissions
to various insiders v e though the
rules of the State Athletic Commission
forbid this, and he is afraid to protest
lest he be placed ON the black list of
those who control boxing in this state.
The remedy, it seems to us, lies in
the need for Negro representation on
the boxing board which regulates the
sport. There is ample justification for
the appointment of a Negro either as
a commissioner o rdeputy commissioner
on the State Athletic Commission. Sew
eral states, ntably Pennsylvania and
Illinois, have set a precedent by giving
to Negroes representation on similar
boards. At the present time, four of
eight worlds titles are held by Negroes
and Joe Louis and Henry Armstrong
are the best drawing cards in the game
today.
These boxers, and those who come
after them, need protection against the
exploitation of those who would take
advantage of their desire for fame and
glory and would leave them with empty
honors o ftheir titles, while they garner
in the money.
Negroes need representation on
the New York State Boxing Commits
sion and are entitled to it both on the
basis of the number Of colored boxers
now fighting in this state and on their
ability to draw the crowds through
their fistic prowess. New York Age.
--oOO--
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
lack of INTELLIGENT direction.

- IIVN1IoVIEV - NVOl0I.
At the present time there is no care
fully worked out plan to harness and
use this power for the benefit Of the
masses. Il any Of the readers think they
have such a plan, would appreciate It
if they will mail it to me IN care of this
column.
For greater economic security read
our Colored papers and p~atronize their
advertisements.
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11

The cost of the Navy ration today
averages about AZ cents per man, which
means the Navy returns daily to the
farmer and those who handle food
stuffs $48, 600.
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
600

Prof. gazing over the room dur
ing an e%xamination.) Will some kind
gentlemen who isn't using his textbook
be so kind as to permit me to have it
for a few minutes?
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
600

Each heavy cruiser in the United
States Navy has an eighty station auto
matte switchboard type telephone sya-
tenn.
The Omaha guide., 1939-02-11
600

People who get too high usually
feel low afterwards.
Evening star., 1939-02-21
Warning Retired
From Numbers,
Counsel Says
Business Broken
Up 2 Weeks Ago,
Donohue Claims

Emmitt Warning, who is in Dis
trict Jail awaiting sentence on con-
tempt charges to which he has
pleaded guilty for tampering with
jurors, has retired from the num-
bers business, his attorney, F.
Joseph Donohue, announced to
newspapermen today at the close
of another session of the contempt
proceedings in District Court.
Mr.. Donohue said Emmitt had
given up this gambling business a
little over two weeks ago, the Sat-
urday before hearing started in the
jury scandal The attorney indi-
Gated that the youthful one-time
numbers king had broken up" his
business and it would not be carried
on by any one else.
During the Warning income tax
trials it was brought out by the
Government and not disputed by
the defense that Emmitt had built
up a numbers play that during one
recent year totaled s2,0OOO0O. EN-
mitt's brothers, Leo and Charles
rags Warning, were his partners,
though the evidence showed that
he ran the business and they merely
helped him and knew little about its
operations.
Emmitt is to be sentenced by
Justice Bolitha j. Laws Friday on
four contempt counts. After plead
ing guilty he admitted that he had
approached one of the men who
served on his last jury, both per-
sonally and through a go-between,
and that he had ordered liquor for
the deputy marshal in charge of the
jury.
Evening star., 1939-02-21
German Press
Flares Up at
Pittmon Talk
Violence at Bund
Rally Also Brings
Angry Comment
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, Feb 21.-The German
press gave extensive display today
to the radio speech of Senator Pitt
man. Democrat, of Nevada against
totalitarian states and a policy of
appeasement. Nachtausgabe head
lining its article American Agita-
ton Now Also Against Chamber
lain
LokalanZeiger comment was: HE
(Pittman wants nothing to do with
objective things; he wants only to
agitate. He paints the end of the
world on a wall and believes Amer
leans will forget through such sem
sational fables the cankers of Roose-
velt internal policies. The dynamite
OF war agitation has not yet been
played with more unscrupulously."
Full tert of Senator Pittmans
talk on page A-17.)
Propaganda Minister Paul JOS
eph Goebbels' newspaper Der An
griff described disturbances at a
meeting of the German American
Bund in New York last night as "a
new attempt of Jewry to express
''' its hate and revenge"
1t declared that the German
people and "all civilized nations
learned with Indignation of the
disturbances, and that Fritz Kuhn,
the bund leader, was trying lin a
completely legal way, on the basis
Of law, to gather German Ameri-
cans into associations.
Evening star., 1939-02-21
London Orders Envoy
To Make Strong Protest

LONDON, Feb. 81 R.-Great
Britain today sent vigorous pro-
test" to Japan over the bombing
of Hong Kong territory by Japanese
planes.
The foreign Office radioed Sir
Robert Leslie Craigie, British Am
bassador to Toxic, to protest i'm
mediately to the Japanese govern
ment in the strongest terms.
Open Door Reply Sought.
Officials said Sir Robert also was
directed to press for a reply to the
British note of January IA asking
clarification of Japanese intentions
toward Western powers in regard
to maintenance of an open door to
trade in China. (The United States
on December 81 and France on
January 10 made similar represen-
tations to JapanD
Britain long has disputed Japan's
apparent intention to restrict for
eign commerce in China and Man.
chukuo and form these two coun-
tries into a single, viNtually closed
economic bloc with Japan.
Japanese conquest of Canton
October 81 brought to the fore the
question of the future of Hong Kong,
which has been South China S major
outlet to the sea. The crown colony
was ceded by China to Great Britain
in January, 184l. A British naval
and military station of first-class
Importance, Hong Kong began as
an island colony but was extended
to the mainland south of Canton
through ceSsion of the Kowloon
Peninsula to Britain and leasing
OF portion of Chinese territory. Its
area is 356 square miles)
Regrets Delay on Hainan.
The British government also was
understood to have regretted Tokio's
delay in explaining fully Japanese
intentions with regard to the island
OF Hainan, off the French Indo-
China coast, where japanese troops
landed February 10.
Britain backed France in a yigor-
Gus inquiry into the Japanese action
at Hainan. The United States also
made an inquiry. The three West
ern powers were told that the oc-
cupation of the island was a mat
ter OF military expediency.
Officlals appeared annoyed by
Japan's payment of her bill for
damages in connection with the
sinking OF the United States gun
boat Panay by japanese planes in
the Yangtze River December 12.
1887, while similar settlements with
Britain were delayed.
Japan paid claims totaling
$2,2l4O07.36 in connection with the
Panay incident)
Evening star., 1939-02-21
House Reaches
Controversial Plan
For Fortifying Guam
Pittmun Emphasizes
War Threats in Plea
For Strong Defenses
BULLETIN,

The Senate Military Commit
tee heard today that the Army
cannot obtain in less than two
years sufficient anti-aircraft
weapons to equip its initial pro-
tective force" of 100000 men.
Chairman Sheppard said Maj.
Gen. Charles M. Wesson, chief of
ordnance, told the committee this
morning that day and night
shifts would be required in manu-
featuring plants to turn out re-
quired anti-aircraft guns.
BY the Associated Press.
The House reached the crux of
the controversy over the admin
stration's defense program today
a recommendation for seaplane
base on the Pacific island of Guam.
The Guam proposal, included in
a $53, 100000 bill for improved
naval air bases, accentuated ques-
tions OF foreign policy in the Orient
at a time of intense argument over
American relations with Europe.
Senator Pittman, Democrat of
Nevada, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, en-
pllasized European war threats last
night in pleading for strong national
defense. He spoke in the National
Radio Forum sponsored by The
Evening Star and broadcast over a
(See DEFENSE, Page A-19)
Evening star., 1939-02-21
Julius {. Martin, Is,
FeI|ed by Street Car

Julius c. Martin, rs, director of
the Bureau of War Risk Litigation
Justice Department, was run down
by street car at Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and Eleventh street NV. short
ly after l pm. today. He was in an
undetermined condition at Emer-
gency Hospital
Mr.. Martin suffered severe head
injury when he was struck by the
right front Of southbound
streamlined car which. police said,
was operated by Jack S. Jeter, %, of
1909 Irving street NV.
Witnesses said Mr.. Martin was
crossing toward The Star Building
corner of the Avenue and apparent
ly stepped into the right front Of
the car. He was left in a semi-con-
scious condition by the blow, but was
able to sit up before an ambulance
arrived.
Street car traffic was tied up for
more than a block in both directions
along the Avenue before police were
able to disperse a crowd of spectators
who gathered at the scene.
Evening star., 1939-02-21
Appreciation Offer
Wins School Boards Praise
Campaign Of The Stor to Bring Records of
Masterpieces to Public Acclaimed

The Board of Education has en-
Enthusiastically indorsed The Stars
music appreciation campaign to
make available to homes in WASH
ington and vicinity some of the out
standing masterpieces of music in
record form.
Plans already are being worked
out looking toward active co-opera-
ton by the schools in the music
appreciation program, which was in
auguraled yesterday. AS soon as de-
tails have been arranged, DR.. Frank
w. Ballou, superintendent of schools,
plans to confer with the assistant
superintendents on the plan.
Meanwhile, scores of reservations
for the 10 famous symphonic works
and the electric record players to be
offered in the campaign were re-
ceived by The Star today.
Those who send in the reservation
forms will receive by mail a brochure
illustrating and describing in detail
the recordings and the record player.
The Board of Education's unani-
nous Endorsement of the campaign
was expressed at its last meeting
following recommendation by DR..
Ballou. In calling the program to
the boa ard's attention, the super
intendeht recalled the art appreci-
alton campign conducted by The
Star last year and explained that it
was contemplated the music appreci-
alton offer would be brought to the
attention of boys and girls in the
District schools.
Members of the board heartily in
dorsed the program. One member,
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, said she
thought it was remarkable oppor-
tulnity and an almost unbelievable"
offer.