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The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Says Boake Garter

suffer now from having more men than there
are ships to fly.
We may talk glibly Of mass production of
training planes, but the best factory in Amer
lea today producing military planes can be
geared, after six-month plant construction
program, to turn out but 10 ships per week.
IF THERE is this super need for pilots in the
United States Army and Navy. why have the
admirals in Washington stuck to a promotion
system which has literally kicked dozens of naval
aviators into private life, after each has had ap
proximately 20 years of service, and for train
ing and maintenance the taxpayers have paid
$4,000 to $40 900 per man in that period of time?
Some of the finest and most experienced pilots
the navy possessed are now in civilian life
after 20 of their best years given to the nation
looking for jobs.
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(which could be made to philan-
thropic administration in Wash,
ington.
No such agency exists, question
ers are told, because some of the
money spent represents public
philanthropy, each with vastly diff
ferent ideals and objectives.
But the impression is strong
that the agencies and individuals
concerned with philanthropy in
Washington are so immersed in
the problems touching their field
that they never get high enough
above the scene to see it as a
whole. Another explanation is
that no one with sufficient force
has attempted to work out the
simple problem of coordination.
Jealousies, never far below the
surface, become clearly visible
and tempers begin to flare at the
suggestion that there are toe
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ShadOuD of a Lonesome Male

AT Lexington and Fifty-eighth, the tall, thin
"A shadow of a lonesome male crosses beneath
the splash of light from the corner lamppost over
head pauses for a second to light cigarette ana
disappears into the drenching dark-DashleH
Hammett, author of Thin Man and, to my
mind, the nations No. fashioner OF thriller
murder fiction TO Thornton W1lders 1ronc-
some 1.-THE Merchant of Yonkers' at the Guild
Theater-and though there are no sleighs and
young dudes riding tandem nevertheless I find
myself in Currier & Ives lithograph mood 1t
is happy foolishness and Jane Cowl and June
Walker lend themselves to it in spirited fashion
Douglas Fairbanks jr. and zorina the beau
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Scheme Appears To Be UnsOund

WHAT is the sense Of rushing blindly to build
w thousands of planes which will be antiquated
before they even get into the air? If there is
already one nation in Europe that can run rings
around anything we possess with their oil en-
CINE performances-produc after years and
years of minute research-whats the sense Of
building 10000 or $4,000 items around which they
can run 10000 or $4,000 more ringsP
The scheme is one mostly for internal political
consumption but wholly deceptive; and, in addi-
ton, serves to promote war hysteria in the popu-
lar mind, when there is neither war in the offing
nor is there any threat nor implied threat Of
invasion.
Copyright, Ledger syndicate)
(BoGke CGrterS opinions are his o,pn and not
necessarily those of The Washington TimeSJ
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Private Philanthropy

Private philanthropy in Wash.
|ington supports through the Com,
munity Chest organization
equipped to extend almost every
conceivable form of charity-from
sheltering homeless family to
Irescuing a fallen sparrow.
Yet with tragic frequency there
occur cases year after year in
which the pleas of unfortunate
citizens have gone unanswered.
These are not cases in VIII C h
money was lacking. They are the
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naval reserves for further
training on a military basis,
explains Mr.. Roosevelt.
The civil training of the
10000 pilots per year will be
conducted through univer-
stiles under the direction of
the National Youth Admins
tration. The head of the
NYA is Aubrey Williams. ex-
assistant WPA administrator,
who recommends that WPA
workers always vote only for
L, those politicians who will vote
hioeer and better relief funds.
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Hopkins, Secretary of Com
merce.
Like every other appoint
ment the President or any one
else makes. there are some
people pleased and some
people disgruntled. There is
one certain thing, however; the
President of the United States
has the absolute right to pick
for his official family the men
in whom he has trust and
faith; the men who have been
loval TO him and his policies.
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but myself can tell you
nothing for it for, needing per-
sonal comfort rather than the
call of duty, I did not go from
night club to restaurant, thea
ter to ballroom, as had been
my custom every New Year
Eve since I first started these
chronicles of Manhattan. In
stead, Lee and I spent an un-
usual and certainly none-too-
quiet holiday eve and day
after at the Joe Cooks sleep
less Hollow" manSe, and there
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ization, aid for a dependent child
or any one of two dozen other serv-
ices provided for by public or
private philanthropy in Washing.
ton has no one spot to which he
can go to have his troubles di.
agnosed.
There is no central agency, no
central facility, no central admin
istrative authority which is di-
rectly linked to all of the Capitals
philanthropies so that the needy
might come to a central address
where their problems could be
analyzed and a start m a d e in
handling them.
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tempt to maintain contact, with
the private agencies in an effort
to steer applicants not eligible
for Federal relief, but obviously
in need to some source of charity.
Beyond that, every welfare
agency operates independently.
The result is that the desperate,
befuddled applicant who may need
mental treatment, food, hospital
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Community Chest
Coordination
Sought

This is the ninth OF q series
of articles touching on the
broader aspects of problem
Uhich Ditally affects eUery
American citizen todGy-reliet.
FolloW this series in The Wash
ington Times.
Loud and sensational are the
charges of waste, inefficiency and
callous disregard for real suffering
hurled at governmental relief or
ganizations-but what of the
Community Chests?
Are they free of bureaucratic
red tape, brutal buck passing,
overlapping administrative set
ups and other evils so freely
ascribed to Uncle Sans efforts at
philanthropy?
Ask the poor devil who has
been shunted through a maze Of
The Washington times., 1939-01-04

It has become clearly apparent
that the chief need in Washing,
ton and probably in most other
cities where Community Chests
lare operated successfully is for
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Voice of New York By Louis Sobol

tiful, are table+sitters next to me at the Cotton
Club where lately find my keenest enjoyment
from a Negro urchin named Solomon Gideon
who performs ventriloquistically with a white
faced dummy as large as himself.
ITO the reopening of the International Casino
l. and here, while imported and domestic beau
ties slither seductivey across stage, I hold con-
verse with affabe Bob Christenberry, who prom
ises to join me in New Orleans for Mardi Gras
time-and later with the immaculate Joe Moss
who insists solemny that his golf is down below
the sos. OF Billy Roses Diamond Horseshoe I
have already written during the week, but one
observation I must record. In the box bearing
Commodore vanderbilt's picture and nameplate
is the impressionable young man of humor
known as Henny Youngman! And at the
ously woebegone for successful young man, is
Donald Bulge, of the tennis world.
A TaLkatiOe Threesome
A TALKATIVE threesome has George Jean
"A Nathan, Dwight Fiske and Playwright Paul
Vincent Carroll for its principals at the Tiny
Cog Rouge And alone gnawing on a fattish
lamb chop, is Novelist Robert Nathan Two
tired-looking young men of entertainment, Ben
Bernie and Phil Baker, huddle at Twenty-One.
GOTHAM, in its finest apparel turns out for
~ the premiere of the much-discussed parable,
Everywhere Roam" at the National Theater,
and many of us find much Of it to our liking,
especially spirited first act. Prosecutor Dewey,
among the audience, seems meek enough-not
one-half as belligerent looking as a few of his
fellow prosecutorS-the critics
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Central Office

Establishment of a simple cen,
tral office where a person in need
could learn where and when his
wants could be met would prob
ably be the biggest contribution
The Washington times., 1939-01-04

think very few people who have not been
privileged to see behind the scenes realize the
intimate and close relationship between the head
of our Government and his Cabinet. These
men can do more to make or break President
than any other power in this country. If they
give him wrong advice they are not the ones to
suffer for it in the end He must take the whole
blame.
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by hangs many tale, too. Upon my return I
was assured never had there been in recent
years. such buoyant revelry, such free flowing of
champagne, such mad, good-natured turmoil,
such lack of restraint.
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1g r e a t e r centrallZaClOn and CO.
ordination of welfare activities.
The local Chest has attempted
to meet this need by maintaining
a year-round information service
intended to direct inquirers to the
source Of aid for any particular
type.
The Council of Social Agencies
runs a social service exchange
W h i C h functions as a clearing
house for all information concern
ing cases handled by m m b r
agencies.
Operate Independently
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A Splendid Record

THE new Attorney General has e certainly
l. splendid record behind him to fit him for
this position. He was born without great means
to help him, and everything he has achieved
up to date has been due to his own determine
ton and hard work.
He was one of the first to go to war, and won
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
My Say

TNHE New Year has brought the two Cabinet
appointments which surprised no one-Frank
Murphy, the new Attorney General, and Harry
The Washington times., 1939-01-04

ALBUM OF MANHATTAN: Never was there
IA gayer festive birthday than that OF Mr.
1899. as New York celebrated it. so am told,
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
E1But''-

TWENTY thousand pilots per annum sounds
terrifying.
The best pilots will be placed in the army and
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
The figures follow.

cases in which the needy were
unable to find their way to the
spot where help was waiting.
Inflammation SerDice
The Washington times., 1939-01-04

private social agencies, and the
answer far too often will be No
The Washington times., 1939-01-04

many agencies absorbing in ad-
miniStrative costs sorely needed
portions of the dollars intended
for the needy.
What portion of the dollar con-
tributed to the Chest eventually
reaches its destination in the
front lines of relief is difficult to
ascertain. The Chest maintains
books which prove that the cost
of administering the Chest itself
is far below the mounts ex-
pended in years past on private
campaigns. But after the dollar
leaves the Golfers of the Chest its
journey becomes too intricate to
follow without firm Of ac-
countants.
Where 1t Goes
Out of $1,46O, ,s60.37 raised and
allocated by the local Community
Continued ON Page 20, Col 81
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SdUed Many Lives

SdUed Many Lives
THE strike was settled in few days and those
poor souls who might have paid the price for
hasty action are still alive and with their loved
ones.
He made splendid governor; cutting expenses
down, balancing the budget, and making many
vital and necessary improvements in the laws.
Personally, he is a man sincerely liked by
everyone who has ever known him. know of
no one who has more friends than Frank
Murphy,
President Roosevelt has shown his loyalty and
devotion to his old friend which is characteristic
of the man himself The new Attorney General
has only to continue steadily and quietly with
the splendid record he already has made for
himself, and he will prove to the world his
friends faith and belief in him were welLjustfied
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
By Evalw Wabh Mclean

a captaincy. He was brilliant prosecutor in
war fraud litigation and was known as "the man
who never lost case"
When he became governor of Michigan his
real trouble started with the "sit-down" strikes
remember so well in those days there was
group of New York bankers and businessmen at
dinner one night at Friendship. They were
damning Murphy up and down because he didn't
call out the militia and end the strike by force
OF course this would have been the easy way out
of it, but don't forget there would have been, in
all probability, many father husband and son
killed, and this the governor was determined
should not happen if he could help it.
The Washington times., 1939-01-04

HE GAVE HIS FACE-Jannes B. Sloan, Who Had
Been Helped by Chest Agency, Wanted to Glue
Something in Return. He Had No Money, but His
Face Appeared on This Years Poster Aiding DriUe.
The Washington times., 1939-01-04

Case workers for the Districts
Public Assistance Division at
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-12-29
Ask Investigation OF
N. C.. Mill Owners

DURHAM, N. C. Southern
textile mill owners are discharg-
ing Negro workers and substitute
ing white in their place, rather
than pay the former the minimum
of thirty-two. and one-half cents
an hour as required by the Fair
Labor Standards Act.
This was the view expressed by
officials of the local branch of the
NAACP, who have filed a COM
plant in Washington with Col.
Philip Fleming, administrator of
the Act. The complaint, which is
directed against the Erwin Cotton
Mills, of Durham, and filed by the
national office of the NAACP in
New York, includes the affidavits
of two Negro women workers at
the textile mill, who stated that
they were fired from their $10-per-
week jobs as cleaners October 13,
shortly after the wage increase
for textile workers went into eff
feet and their places taken by two
white women.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-12-29
F.B.I. To Investigate
Arrest of Jurors

NEW YORK The Federal
Bureau of Investigation will make
IAN immediate investigation" into
the arrest and brutal beating last
June of Lawrence Sigmon, fifty
year-old Negro, at the hands of an
Ashville, North Carolina sheriff,
who resented Sigmon's appearance
for jury duty after he had been
called to serve.
Announcement of the action TAX
en- by the Department of Justice
was made today by the NAACP,
following receipt of a reply to a
telegram sent to Attorney General
Frank Murphy December Is, urg-
ing the Justice Department to in
vestigate the case as violation of
civil liberties.
A letter signed by o. John Rog-
ge, in charge of Civil Liberties,
said in part: 1.-THE Federal Bureau
of Investigation has been request
ed to make an immediate investi-
cation, after which appropriate ac-
ton will be taken by the depart
ment."
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-12-29
Vacation Ends
For Adult Classes

Glasses of adult education under
the sponsorship of the Seattle
Public Schools, assisted by the
Work Projects Administration
that have been closed during the
holidays in the East Madison dis
trict, will reopen with their New
Years program on January in
the same locations and with the
same time schedules as heretofore.
The New Years program will be
under the guidance of eight major
study groups as follow: Naturali-
cation, Arts and Crafts, Public At
fairs, Homenaking, Workers Prob
lens, Child Guidance, Music, and
General subjects.
All persons 16 years of age or
over are eligible to attend these
classes without charge for instruc-
ton or enrolment.
Additional information may be
obtained by telephoning or writing
the Adult Education Department,
80 Dexter Avenue, Alder 5000.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-12-29
Loved Priest Dies
After Long Illness

Negro Catholics of Seattle
mourn the loss of the Rev. Gerald
Baltrusch, who died at Providence
hospital last Tuesday, after a long
Illness.
He came to Seattle with his par
ents when a mere boy and received
his education in the Catholic
schools of this city. Immediately
following his elevation to priest
hood, he was assigned to the
Church of the Immaculate Con-
ception, 18th and E. Marion SITS.
Although only thirty-six years old
at the time of his death, he was
quite active in Catholic circles
throughout the city. The Most
Rev. Gerald Shaughnessy, S. M,
Bishop of Seattle, said the solemn
pontifical mass of requiem at the
Church of the Immaculate Con-
ception.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-12-29
By Jacques b. ChappelI

No better illustration of this quotation may be found
than that which to life every and then in
community Boys and girls of grade and high school age,
at the risk of nuring their health and famarizg them
selves with the outer moral frngesfs enduring then
embracing that the holiday spirit elusive
overndugence of such beverages usually found in
homes this day. necessary to make Christmas day of
celebration for youngsters.
Usually it is kind of dress rehearsal before making
their public bow. In this atmosphere life may be beautiful
to you, but it may NOT be beautiful to Others
1t is not problem to take issue with the prevailing
social custom Nor do consider such ndugences itself
immoral We do feel however, it is the gtering light which
leads to the fringe and makes escape almost hopeless
THE LAW PREVENTS THE SALE OF INTOXICANTS
TO MINORS
We do feel that some parents home, somebody is
in guilty of contributing minors den-
quency.
We do feel that parents homes, somebody is
inadvertently or otherwise guilty of removing the stepping
stones that lead to the height of splendid and
go po,oer gftie gle
To ourSePs hers u.s."
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-12-29
Young Man Gets
Church Office

Mr.. J. e. Raynor, Jr., will be-
come one of the youngest admin
strators of large church school
in the District of Columbia-per-
haps in the United States, when
he takes over his duties as super
intendent of the Sunday School of
the Vermont Ave. Baptist Church
early in 1910.
The newly elected superintend-
ent, who is still in his early TWEEN
ties, is a highly cultured young
man, but very quiet and unassum-
ing. Although his parents are or
iginally New Englanders, Mr..
Raynor has spent most of his time
in Baltimore and Washington. He
was educated at Howard and AM
erican Universities, both of which
are in the District of Columbia.
He is also an officer in the Organ
lied Reserves of the United States
Army.
This selection will be watched
from many angles, especially in
the blending of cultural standards
with religious doctrines, and be-
cause of the gradual entrance of
youth into higher positions of edu-
cation both secular and religious.
Mr.. Raynor is very much inter-
ested in developing a program of
religious education that will ade-
quately solve the problems of mo-
dern youth, and help to eliminate
the growing number of difficult
problems that are found among
young people.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-12-29
Christmas Presents
For WPA Workers

Don G.. Abel, state Works Pro-
jects Administrator, announced
late Friday that he had received
"the finest of Christmas presents"
Abel displayed a telegram from
national WPA headquarters in
Washington, D. c., permitting him
to raise the state WPA employ
ment quota for January to 1855
persons, an increase of 1925 over
December.
Abel declared that the good
news was of vital Importance be-
cause there are still 1000 employ
able persons certified by the coun-
ty welfare departments of Wash
ington as in need but which WPA
has been unable to assign to pro-
jects under quota restrictions.
Furthermore, WPA now has
numerous projects ready to begin, -"
said Abel. Cali the awaiting pro-
jects have Presidential approval
and the legally required minimum
25 per cent financial contribution
pledges from sponsors.
Assignments under the increas-
ed quota will be made Immediately
according to the State WPA adj
ministrator. This is the second
time within a month that Abel has
succeeded in obtaining employ
ment quota increases in answer to
his urgent pleas to national head
quarters. Early this month he was
permitted to increase the Deem
Der quota from the November 25,-
900 to 26,930.
Relative need, project require
ments and the proportion of the
states needy population in each
district will be determining factors
in making these additional assign
ments, said Abel.
Assignment of this large num-
Der of new WPA workers not only
will be a joy to them but will be a
great Christmas present to all
Washingtonians," Abel declared,
especially to residents who will di-
rectly benefit by the increase in
WPA service and construction,
and to the merchants whose bust
ness will be materially aided by
the increased WPA payrolls.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-12-29

Following the appraisal, negotia-
tons will begin with owners of
the property in the 431a acre area.
Chairman of the group of negotia-
tors is David t. Young, promin-
ent realtor. Associated with Young
are Vincent D. Miller and Curtis
Middlebrook, well-known in Seattle
realty circles.
The "a square block site is
bounded by Main, jefferson and
Fir streets, and by 7th, 9Th, 18th
and Maynard avenues. According
to an official survey, there are
1873 parcels of property involved in
the appraisal, and 470 dwelling
units. The total assessed valuation
of the area this year was $3.50, $40,
or an average of S340. SO per
dwelling unit. The tax levy on the
site for 1889 was 81 ,290, or an ave-
rage of $3.50 per dwelling unit.
There is, said the Authority
chairman, a cumulative tax delin-
quency against the site, of $30,719,
an average of $65.36 per dwelling
unit. The rate of tax delinquency
on the site is approximately twen-
ty times that of the city average,
At present, there is a tax delin--
quency against each dwelling unit
equivalent to four times the tax
levy for a single year. A total of
nearly 80 per cent of the area of
the area of the site is tax title
land, owned by the County, due to
failure by former property own
ers to pay taxes for a period of
five or more consecutive years.
Economically" said Coplen,
"the tax situation on Yesler Hill
is as deplorable as the housing sit
uation is socially. The construction
of public housing projects in other
cities has demonstrated that such
a building program as that now
being aided by the United States
Housing Authority, program of
enduring public improvements, not
Continued on Page Four)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-12-29
Player Quits Squad When Team
Leaves To Play In Cotton Bowl
By Jacques B. Chappen

Appease the South at any
price is the slogan around the
sport circles throughout the
u. S. A.
In order to do so, Lou Mont
gomery, ace halfback of the
Boston College football team,
is said to have voluntarily quit
the College football squad on
the eve of their departure to
play Clemenson College Of
Clemenson, S. c., in the Texas
Cotton Bowl.
The second great colored foot
ball star to be Stunned from New
Years day games to avoid COM
plications with Southern football
players, Montgomery will stay at
home.
Bearing the torch against such
Un-American craftsmanship in
the country is Royal Brougham,
sports editor of the Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
Brougham's comments and arti-
cles on the deal Kenny Washington
U. c. L. A star, received from
West team officials proves that
there are many who still believe
good craftsmanship comes first in
the field of sports.