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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-03-09
DR.. J. H. BURKS
AT PEOPLES sun.

Dr. James H. Burks, pastor of Mt.
Zion Baptist Church at 1890 am.
Sunday, March TO-
Dr. Burke is an outstanding pastor,
pulpiteer and church builder. He has
pastored leading churches in Roanoke,
Va; Columbus, Ohio, where he built
one of the finest churches of the Middle
West and now pastors in Newark,
n. j. His coming will mark his first
in Boston. The public is
invited to hear him.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-03-09
JAMES M. CURLEY
MISSED AT
ATTACKS SUNDAY

Th" Hon, James VI. Curley, Mass.
Congressman thrice Mayor, ex Gov
ernor OF the Commonwealth, true and
tnea friend Of the colored race sent
the following Letter in response to an
invitation to speak at the great pre-
AttooHs Day meeting in Zion Church
last. 1t was Mr.. Curley who while
Continued on Page 81
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-03-09
Indian Leader AT
6 Byron ST., Sunday

Rajni Patel, Young Indian leader,
Cambridge (England's) University
graduate and Secretary of the Indian
Students Federation of Great Britain
will speak Sunday evening, under aus
pices of Massachusetts Youth Council
at 6 Byron Street, near Charles and
Beacon SITS. Charles Wilson, we'll
known Boston Colored student, is
treasurer.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-03-09
ATTACKS anniversary
CELEBRATIONS
TIC N .l.-ay Meeting

TIC ~ .G.ay Meeting
On Sunday Mar 3, a preliminary
10th attacks celebration was held in
Columbus Avenue A.M.E. Zion Church,
Rev, W. D. Battle, pastor, attended by
some POO people. The meeting was
under the auspices of the Boston
Branch Equal Rights League, Atty. j.
S. r. Bourne, treasurer, introduced
Louis f. Pasco, president who presid-
ed after the invocation by Rev. j. W.
Powell, there We're several numbers by
st. Bartholomew Choir under j. Shell
ton Pollin, choirmaster, and pleasing
solos by Mrs. Irene Abercrombie, sop
rano and William. B. Sexton, tenor,
Continued on Page 81
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-03-09
Dew t vn Exercises

LOW .Nt a%n EXERCISES
Boston Branch, Equal Rights League
as usual carried on the annual exercises
at the downtown spots made memorable
by the heroism of Crispus Attucks,
March 5, ITO.
AT ATTUCKS SPOT
Ralph j. Banks, v. pres. of league,
presided. There was a trumpet solo
America" by Lloyd Wright of 372nd
inf, reading of the Governors pro-
clamation by c. Hilton Greene, short
addresses by Mrs. Nadine Wright
Goodman and Mrs. Alice Banks, plac-
ing of city's wreath by acting Mayor
Calvin.
Continued on Page 81
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-03-09
NINE. SARA SPENCER WASHINGTON

NINE. SARA SPENCER WASHINGTON
and president Of the Apex News and Hair Company and the Apex
uN Colleges who spending much needed resi- at Hot Springs
Nkana where she will for month Mme Washington
ea by her cousin Mrs. Vena GosneN wife Of prominent Baltimore
0ey William Goe and Mrs. Alice Randall Of Atlantic City While
@ Hot Springs from Atlantic City, the party stopped off for short
Evening star., 1940-07-01
EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. c. MONDAY JULY 1a4o

Canal street plaza and wharf, loca-
ton OF the principal ferry crossing
Of the Mississippi River, is the only
exception.
Crews of vessels will be allowed
to cross the wharves only when ac-
companied by designated steam
ship representative. All photo
graphing of cargo or ships in load
ing berths is banned, and no small
craft will be permitted to operate
within 200 feet of the public docks or
of any ship moored at the docks.
All lettering and trespassing Is
banned. Violations will be punished
by 6O-day Jail sentence, a $50 fine,
or both.
The immense public docks, many
of them built of wood, run for miles
on both sides of the stream. New
Orleans greatest fire in modern
times wiped out several blocks of
the docks and warehouses near Po-
land street in 1922, causing a loss
in excess of $6,0O0,0O0.
Evening star., 1940-07-01
Wheeler Forecasts
'Anti-War Party
lnChicago Speech
Third Fuction Will Form
If Democrats Fail to
Pledge Peace, He Says
ES the Associated Press.

E, the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 1.-Senator
Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana pre-
diets that should the Democratic
party follow the action of the Re-
publican National Convention and
refuse to include in its platform a
pledge not to send American soldiers
ito a foreign Shore" new and
great anti-war party" would be
formed
Speaking at a Keep America Out
of War" mass meeting last night,
the Montana Senator asserted that
the Democratic party must be a
peace party" and have in its plat
form the peace plank rejected by the
Republican Convention.
Despite all its lip service to the
idea of keeping the United States
out of war, the Republican party
calmly and carefully refused to
pledge itself that no drop of blood
VA eaiA 1AAiAS1 ANoll youlll olidll UC
spilled on foreign shore for the
purpose of interfering in any Euro
pean or Asiatic conflict" Senator
Wheeler said.
IF neither party is willing to give
this pledge to the American people
then new and great anti-war
party will arise to challenge both
the old parties"
Senator Wheeler's name has been
mentioned with John L. Lewis, C.
o. chief, in political speculation in
connection with the possible forma-
ton of third party and also is
regarded as a possible candidate for
the Democratic presidential nomina-
ton.
Senator Wheeler reiterated his
statement that he would oppose any
attempt to make my party the war
party" and would "disavow any can
didate who I believe may lead this
country down the road to war"
Evening star., 1940-07-01
ADVERTISEMENT.
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Kidney Strain

wrong foods and drinks, worry colds and
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sures an immediate refund Of the full cost
everything to gain and nothing to lose under
this positive money back guarantee so get
Cystex from your druggist today for only 35e.
Evening star., 1940-07-01
New Methodist Bishop
For D. T.. Arrives
To Make Moving Plans
Comes After Ending /
Second Quocrennium
In Pittsburgh Area

Bishop Adna Wright Leonard,
elected at the jurisdictional confer
ence of the Methodist Church June
21 to be resident bishop of the
Washington area, arrived in Wash
1ngton today to make preparations
for moving his family here. This
will be done some time in September,
1t was said at the Office of DR.. G..
Ellis Williams, one of the District
superintendent of the Methodist
Church
Bishop Leonard, who takes the
place Of Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes.
who resigned in the first week of
June, went to his Office in the
Methodist Building today after
trip from Lake Chautauqua. where
ne and Mrs. Leonard make their
summer home. He comes here after
his second quadrennium in the
Pittsburgh area, to which he was
assigned by the General Conference
In Atlantic City, N. j., in 1882.
Though he presided several years
ago at General Conference held
in Hamline Church, Bishop Leonard
processes to be almost a total
stranger to Washington"
Early Days Spent in Ohio.
After early school days spent in
Ohio, Bishop Leonard moved to
Brooklyn, N. Y, when his father
was elected corresponding secretary
OF the Board of Foreign Missions.
In 1899 Bishop Leonard went to
Puerto Rico and assisted in the or
ganization of the Methodist Church
there. Rome, Italy, was the next
city that called Bishop Leonard He
went there upon the request of
Bishop John H. Vincent, in charge
OF Methodist work in Europe at the
turn of the century. He returned
to the United States and received
an appointment to Grace Church.
Piqua, Ohio.
Alter two years paStorate at Piqua,
Bishop Leonard was appointed to
Central Church, Springfield, Ohio.
From Springfield, Bishop Leonard
went to Walnut Hills Church, Gin
cinnati. After two years there he
peCdiIle pastor OF the F1rSt Church
in Seattle, Wash.
To Saratoga in 1916.
In 1916, Bishop Leonard was
elected to the episcopacy at Saratoga
Springs, N. Y. He is now in his
twenty-fifth year in the episcopacy.
His first assignment as bishop was
to the San Francisco area, his sec
ond to the Buffalo area, and he has
just closed his work in the Pitts
burgh area.
Bishop Leonard is the author of
several books, The Shepherd King"
Evangelism in the Making of the
World" The Hearthstone League
Book of Remembrance" and An
cient Fires on Modern Affairs" His
latest book is Decisive Days in So
cial and Religious Progress"
Evening star., 1940-07-01
D. c. Allotted S278, ,906
For N. Y. A. Program

The District of Columbia was al
lotted s27s,9o6 for operation of the
National Youth Administration out
of-school work program here for the
fiscal year starting today, it was
announced here by Aubrey Will
liams, N Y. A. administrator.
A total of s67 ,884.0OO was allocated
for the entire Nation for operation
OF the program, the money being
divided on youth population basis.
The money will be used to employ
young people on publicly co-spon-
sored projects.
Evening star., 1940-07-01
New Orleans Closes
Port 10 Visitors;
Posts 50 Guards
No one to Be Allowed
On Whurves Without
Written Permission
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS. July / (P.-Ex-
traordinary precautionary ,regula-
tions virtually closing the great,
miles-long port of New Orleans to
all except those with special written
permission went into effect today,
and so guards were assigned to the
port to enforce the orders.
The precautions were decreed by
the Port Commission last year, but
had not been enforced. Dock board
officials explained that the danger
OF fifth columnists" and possible
saboteurs now had reached the
point that enforcement had become
necessary.
Hereafter, no one will be allowed
along the wharves and docks without
special written permission. The
Evening star., 1940-04-13

periods included the dark days of
the decline under the ARTICLES of
Confederation, the years when graft
tude to the French people and bitter
ness against the British threatened
to align the worlds outstanding ex-
ample of pure democracy on the side
of the most widespread military die
tatorship, and later during the eras
Of pernicious political and social
activity Of the nineteenth century.
But there never has been a time
in the history of the United States
when realization of what citizenship
means has been more important
than at, the present. General real
ization of the fact that the world
has known only two basic types of
government, autocracy and democ-
racy, has never been more urgently
required.
Washingtonians who plan to DRAM
atize the meaning of what European
thinkers hundred years ago called
the American experiment" deserve
encouragement in their effort to
drive home to every citizen the
benefits which are his.
Evening star., 1940-04-13
Keystone Auto Club
C0mmends Editorial,

10 the Editor OF The Star:
The Keystone Automobile Club an.
preciates your editorial of Sunday. April
Z, calling for favorable action on the
bill which would establish in the De-
partment of Vehicles and Trafac an
ONCE of record for the purpose of re-
cording and releasing liens and en-
cumbrances on automobiles.
The need for such a step has long
been pointed out by the Keystone Auto
mobile Club. and passage Of legislation
embodying the provisions OF the Ran
dolph bill has been continuing prof.
ect Of our organization. The clubs
pioneer recommendations in behalf Of
the end sought by the present bill were
based upon intimate and frequent ex-
perience with the serious limitations Of
the system now operative.
With the support which has rallied to
the proposal, both on the part Of the
press and large number of local or
CARNATIONS, there should be no delay
In Its final enactment.
GEORGE =. KENEIPP. Manager.
April 4
Evening star., 1940-04-13
Americunism

Plans are being studied by a COM
mittee of Washington citizens for a
proposed mass meeting to be held on
the anniversary of the adoption of
the Stars and Stripes as the flag OF
the United States, June IA, to impress
upon young citizens who have just
reached their majority their rights
and responsibilities as Americans.
In various forms ceremonies of this
type have been held successfully in
numerous communities during recent
years.
In the past history of the Republic
there have been numerous periods
when a thorough realization of the
meaning of Americanism was vital
to the national welfare, times when
the danger of being carried away by
different ideals presented a definite
threat to those things which still are
the guarantees Of liberty. Such
Evening star., 1940-04-13
Depl0res Our Readiness
To Give War Advice.

10 the Eoltor OF Tne star:
We are peculiar people. We can run
our own affairs and have time to advise
the rest of the world just how they
should conduct their business; especially
world war
Almost 26 years ago we thought the
World War was none of our business
and proceeded to advise the allies just
how to win that war. After three years
of losing the war driving from the back
seat and with the aid of German sub
marines, we arrived on the front seat
and began to take lessons in the real
thing from Germany, after buying war
gear from the allies.
Today We are again driving from the
back seat, forgetting the lesson of some
20 years ago. We seem to have forgotten
that it took England two years after she
declared war against Germany in 1914
before her newly recruited army was
trained and equipped and ready for at
tack-all except her small standing army
of some 10000 regulars. We forget that
it took us 18 months, with the help of
the allies, to get ready for battle. Driv-
ing from the back seat, we are impatient
at the delay in attack today, forgetting
that green troops lily equipped would be
murdered. Only America is impatient
and calls this phony war. Might it
not be that we are the phonies, phony
critics?
Most people are aware that Germany,
Russia and Japan need no provocation to
start a war; therefore, why consider
treading on their toes> When it suits
their purpose they will attack, willy -nilly
Our interests lie opposite theirs and our
sympathy is with their foes, yet we
offer the democracies our help grudg-
ingly only when cash is laid down-giv-
ing advice freely!
Randolph, Utah. FRED p. PATTON.
April 8.
Evening star., 1940-04-13

the nation with the biggest fleet has
q tremendous advantage over its adj
versaries, irrespective of the size of
the enemy air forces. He pointed out
that although Germany has greater
air power than the allies, she has
been blockaded tightly by the British
and French fleets. "The point is,"
Admiral Robinson succinctly added,
that the United States wants to be
In the position of England on the
seas-not in the position of Ger
many" That is eminently sound
reasoning, The Star believes. The
intimation that President Roosevelt
may urge an additional appropria-
ton for the Navy, which has suf-
fered some ill-advised cuts at the
hands of the House and Of the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee, is
most encouraging news.
Evening star., 1940-04-13
Describes Experience in
Apartment Fire.

To the Editor Of The Star:
The disclosure that building inspectors
are forced, under the present law, to
approve fire stairs that are open hazards
is alarming to those who live in the
upper stories of high buildings.
The following incident which occurred
last fall in the building where live
demonstrates the inadequacy of its fire
escapes. Fire broke out in the trash
on the loading platform. The bells
changed warning throughout the build
ing. and I. with others, tried to descend
the nearest stairs. We were obstructed
by the smoke at about the fourth floor
Il am not sure how many flights I
descended. We rushed to the one other
stairway, and found that, also, obstructed
by smoke. The freight elevator was out
of operation because its landing was at
the site of the fire. That left two small
passenger elevators the only means of
exit from building of about 200 cpars-
ments, most of which consist of living
room and one bedroom.
The fire did little damage, but it
proved that this building is not provided
with adequate fire escapes. It is said to
be fireproof, but the doors are made of
wood, and the corridors are fully
carpeted.
None OF the large apartment buildings
erected in the District Of Columbia In
recent years seem to have outside fire
escapes. Are they all as dangerous fire.
traps as this one? Cannot something
be done before another GIaster occurs?
SIXTH-HOOle'zJWELLER.
April 10.
Evening star., 1940-04-13
StirIino

I love the lights On yonder castle tower:
I love the grayness of its ancient wall,
The nists that gather in the morning
hour,
In waning day as purple shadows fan;
The massive court could speak heroic
tales
OF chivalry. Of tournaments long past,
OF clansmen gathering in the nearby
wales
And rallying forward at the bugle's
blast.
! love.the tales of clansman and Of chief.
The pibroch from the pipes at rising
sun,
The thrilling days Of over laird and fief
And rich rewards for deeds~most nobly
done.
The clans are gone. We hear the
shepherds call
From heathered hills. The claymores
on thepWalli
JOHN FRANCIS STEELE.
Evening star., 1940-04-13
BottIeship VS.. Bomber

1t Is only natural that the air and
sea battles now raging along the
Scandinavian coast should have re-
vived the old controversy as to which
is the more important in war, sea
power or air power That there are
two schools of thought in this con-
nection was brought out during the
fight which the late Gen. Billy"
Mitchell led some years ago in an
effort to convince Congress and the
public generally of the superiority of
bombing planes over battleships.
Gen. Mitchell's campaign was cli-
NAKED by a simulated bombing raid
on discarded warships, but the re-
suits were far from conclusive and
the debate has continued sporadi-
cally to this day.
While full details of the grim con-
test now taking place off Norway
will not be available for days or
perhaps weeks, nothing so far an
nounced by either side would sup
port the contention that modern
bombing planes have rendered bat
tleships obsolete. Nor has there been
any indication that bombing planes
do not serve a useful purpose in their
own field of operation Undoubtedly
both are interdependent and indis-
pensable. There have been certain
incidents during this war, how
ever, which show that battle
ships, under certain circumstances
at least, can take the worst that
bombing planes have to offer and
yet suffer no disabling damage. Ger
man bombers have made repeated
raids on Scapa Flow and British
planes have engaged in similar
bombing forays against the German
fleet, but there has been no authen-
ticated instance so far of a battle
ship being sunk by air bombs. Only
this week the British dreadnought
Rodney was struck squarely on her
forward deck by heavy bomb, but
her thick armor saved her from Seri-
GUS damage, according to the Ad-
miralty. All battleships today are
protected against aerial sattack by
steel plates designed to resist the
heaviest bombs. In addition, there
are watertight subdivisions by which
effects of bomb or of shellf1re may
be localized quickly by damage
control crews, and, Of course, there
are also anti-aircraft guns and
planes for counterattack.
Rear AdmirarS. M. Robinson, chief
of the Navy Departments Construc-
ton Bureau, told q Senate appropri-
ations subcommittee recently that
the present European war, as mat
ter of fact, has strengthened the be-
Lief Of American naval ofncials that
Evening star., 1940-04-13

natural that she should be far ahead of
the allies at the present time because
she started to prepare years before they
began.
AThere must be a reason for this sud-
den shift of the war northward, and
it may be that Germany is being tuo
tightly squeezed by the pincers of the
allied blockade. Now she is surely
reaching out for lebensraum, but it may
turn out to be something entirely differ
ent-namely, todesraum, If I may be
permitted to coin the expression, which
means literally room for death"
Germany's wild career must stop, and
will stop. To use well-known German
expression: der krug gent so lange
zum brunnen bis er bricht"-you can
carry the jug to the well only until it
breaks. When a country tries to fight
the whole civilized world, just as Ger
many is doing for the second time,
annihilation is bound to result. 1t is
only matter of time.
April 10. HENRY LEBACH.
Evening star., 1940-04-13
A HurtfuI Proviso

Members Of the Senate Civil Serv-
ice Committee should be convinced
thoroughly by this time of the hurt
full character of the Keller Nichols
amendment to limit the benefits of
the Ramspeck civil service extension
bill by making it conform to the
apportionment law appointment rule.
Witnesses who have carefully con-
sidered the amendment, without ex-
ception. have advised the committee
it would work injustice and raise
hopeless administrative problems,
and this argument has been bolstered
now by the testimony of Representa-
tive Ramspeck, the author of the bill,
who emphasized that the provision
was unavoidable"
The amendment was voted by the
House over Mr.. Ramspeck's protest,
on the strength of arguments that
it was made necessary by the failure
OF the Civil Service Commission to
follow the apportionment law under
which appointments to positions in
the departmental service here are
distributed among the States and
Territorities on the basis of popula-
ton. In answer to this contention,
the commission proved to the COM
mittee that every effort had been
made to conform to the apportion-
ment law and that it was impossible
to regulate appointments in such a
way that some States would not be
always over quota and others under.
Representatives of employe organ
lzations, strongly advocating the bill,
also have opposed the amendment,
which would bar its benefits to work.
ers hailing from over-quota States
as long as any States were under
quota. Opposition likewise has been
registered by other organizations
supporting the bill, which is designed
to bring under civil service thousands
OF exempt positions, thereby dealing
a body blow to the patronage system
and paving the way for building
Government employment into career
service.
Despite the weight Of evidence.
Representatives Keller of Illinois
and Nichols Of Oklahoma still pro-
fess favor for their proposal, but that
should not stand in the way of its
rejection. Neither that amendment
nor any other recognizing apportion-
ment has any place in merit legis-
lation.