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not bluffing. They, were all in.
 NOTE-Most interested observer of the above history is reported to be King Carol of Rumania, next victim of the Russo German squeeze.)
 FOOD LABELLING
 It might be difficult to sell pud- ding powder to a housewife at 75 cents a pound if she knows it is nothing but colored corn starch.
 This is what lies behind the current struggle between the food industry and the Pure Food and Drug Administration. If the latter wins, the industry will have to put new labels on its products beginning July l.
 Pudding powders, fancy Hours, salad dressings, chocolate drinks and an array of other packaged foods might lose some of their attractiveness if label stated their simple ingredients. Yet the Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics Act carries such a requirement..
 The fight is over amendments to the Act, which would delay the new label requirement.. PFDA wants no delay. Backed by the American Home Economies Asso- citation, they maket he point that untrained housewives in the poor CT classes are often lured by "pro- prietary foods" which are actually very expensive.
 There is no question of whole someness, but there is big ques- tion of price.
 Copyright, 1940, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
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STUFF AND CUFF
(New York Herald -Tribune)

As New York City landmarks suc- cunb to oblivion under the tramp ing feet of progress, memories in- eyitably surge, usually to settle again with the dust Of the last bricks and mortar as they are car- ted away. Tn the case of the de- molltion of the remaining portion of the distinguished and beautiful old New York Herald Building 1t is not quite as sad as it sounds, for a plan has ben made, subject 10 final approval by the Board Of Estimate, t0 return Stuff and Cuff. the tw0 bronze bellFingers who were f0FnieFs ly atop the building and who have passed years since their removal a0lournine at New York UnlveFhiiy, l0 their old stamping ground, bat lll another position. Tine plan alno Inc ellldea the enlargement and renlaFs
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sently be giving the matter serioui thought.
 This is the so-called Smith com mittee - the group of five con. gressmen headed by Howard Smitf of Virginia = which has been in. vestigating therecord of the Ma. tional Labor Relations Board during the past few months.
 GROUP CAN PROBE
 ALMOST ANYTHING
 When the House of Representa-. tives set this committee up las July, it gave it extremely broac authority.
 It directed it to investigate the Labor Board and the Wag-. ner act and to recommend such
 changes in law or personnel as
 it deemed advisable; then, in 8 separate paragraph, it instructed the committee to determine "whether or not further legisla- ton is desirable on the subject of the relationship between em- ployer and emplOye."
 Under that authority, the com mittee can investigate practically anything that centers about the activities of organized labor.
 GROUP CAN'T REMAIN
 IDLE FOR LONG
 The committee has brought in a set of amendments to the Wag- ner act and is in recess until these amendments have been considered Chairman Smith says it will offer no further Wagner act legislation at this session.
 But the committee itGelf does not go out of existence until the end of the year. Furthermore, toward the end of February it asked, and got, another $50,000
 to continue it's investigation. There are still some things Con- gressman Smith wants to learn about the Wagner act and the Labor Bcard-but there aren't $50,000 worth, by any means. .,
 Unless it takes advantage of the extra authority it possesses, the committee will shortly find itself with idle time and idle money on it's hands a condition no con- gressional committee is apt to re- main in for long.
 MEMBERS DISTURBED
 BY RACKET" REPORTS
 It is no secret that number of congressman are disturbed by re- cent statements about racketeering in the labor movement. Among them are members of the Smith commit tee.
 It wouldn't be exactly sur prising, therefore if the com- mittee should conclude that here was phase of "rhe relation ship between employer and em- plOye" which would bear looking into; nor would it be surprising if, having so decided, the com mittee should send its attorney or other agent over to the Jus tice Department to study the ma. terial on racketeering which the department has recently collected.
 There is lot of that material on hand, incidentally. Most of it has been turned up in the Arnold campaign. Much of it came in more or less incidentally, and has not resulted in any grand jury action - either because it doesn't bear on the departments anti trust campaign, or because it is not complete. But it would furnish an amplet set of Heads" for a con- gress.onal committee.
 Whats more, it would be simple for the committee to get at this in formation, inasmuch as the Justice Department isn't at all averse to letting Smith go ahead with the job
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1. The name partridge is applied to quail, bobwhite or grouse?
 2. Name the President of the Re- public of Panama.
 3. Name the tiny European coun- try situated on the upper Rhine be- tween Austria and Switzerland.
 4. Is the unit of electric power the volt Smpere or watt?
 5. Which we'll known American song is sung to the tune of God Save the Klng?"
 6. With which Government de- partment are Cordell Hull and Sumner Wells associated?
 2. What is mammoth?
 8. What precious stone, ranks next to the diamond in haroneSsf
 g. Loans to home owners are tn- sured by the United States Housing Authority, the Home Owners Loan Corporation, or the Federal Housing Administration?
 10. Who was Stephen Foster9
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. HIGHLIGHTS FRoM
 LATEST BOOKS
Pontiac's Farley Plot Rolled by British

A great part of decisive American
 history. is tied up with Detroit.
 The auto capital is still mak-
 ing important history. So
 Arthur Pound has lusty sub
 ject in his book, Detroit: Dyna-
 mic City" Appleton Century
 $5). He does it justice. His dra-
 matic, vigorous book is en-
 hanced further by more than 60
 beautiful drawings of m0dren
 Detroit by E. H. Suydam.
 Pounds story begins with Cadil-
 lac, marches through the French
 and Indian wars, the RevOlu-
 ton, War of 1872 and winds up
 with modern streamliuing and
 sit-dOwns. Here is the stuff
 America is made of. Just a jOt
 matics, vigorous book is en-
 cerpted hesc, describing Pom
 tiac's attempt to wipe out the
 British garrison at Detroit in
 1763, and simultaneously all
 lake posts:
 The Indians planned to gain ad- mission on pretext of a council to resffirm peace, draw hidden weap- ons from their blankets at a given signal, and attack the unprepared defenders.
 First came IS Ottawas to spy out the location of stores. When Pon- tiac arrived an hour later he found both the garrison and the fur trad- CTS under arms. He must have known then that his ruse had fail- ed, yet he had no recourse but to enter Into council. because his foi- lowers had been freely admitted aId to withdraw now would be to show the white feather before them. It is declared that no actually held In hand the wampuTn which osten- Ribiy was to cement peace but was actually the signal for attack, when Major 0ladwin stopped him. ex- p0sed tho hidden weapons and re. vealed his men ready to fire at the first hostile move. Apparently the c0mmandant thought this exposure sufficient, for be permitted his guests tO leave assuring them Of continued British friendship but promising vengeance t thb truce was broken.
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Daily Almanac

Moon sets i2:iT a. m.
 Sun rises 0:03 Q. m.; sets b:BD D. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 rho moon enters lta first quarter phase t0. night between 10 and fl o'clock. This ends the cycle Of bad weather that has pred0inls mated the weather charts fr the last six weeks. Outlook k for islr and pleasant weather.
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required to furnish each employe statement in a form suitable for re- tention by the employee showing the taxable wages paid to the employee after December 31, 1899. Each state ment must cover one or more, but not more than four, calendar quar- ters and must show the employers name and the employees name, the period covered by the statement, the total amount of wages paid within the period covered, and the amount of the employees tax with respect to such wages. Each statement must be furnished to the employee not later than the last day of the second calendar month following the period covered by the statement, except that in any case where employee leaves the employ of the employer, the final statement must be fur- nished when the final wage payment is made. If the employer chooses, however, he may furnish the state- ment at the time of each wage pay- ment to the employee and, in that event, the statement may show the date of the wage payment instead of the period covered by the state ment.
 @. What is the rarest metal?
 A. Protactinium.
 @. What is the pay of a cadet at the U. s. Military Academy?
 A. Seven hundred dollars per year and communication of ration, at 75 cents per day.
 @. Who received the 1889 Nobel prize for physics? {1a
 A. Prof. E. O. Lawrence of the University of California, Berkeley, Calf.
 @. On what day in February, 1940, did the Mohammedan New Year occur?
 A. Mulharraln, or the New Year, fell on February 10th. It is the year 1859 in the Mohammedan calendar.
 If you want copy of the book let 1.-THE HUMAN BODY" send to The Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thir- teenth Street, Washington. D. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-16
In Today's Mail
CREEKS LACKING WORD. FOR IT FALL BACK ON
 CONFUCIUS

Editor, Watrbury Democrat:
 Had the eminent philosopher of the ancient Grreks, Socrates, been alive today, he would lash the letter writer who signed {. letter "A Creek" appearing in the Democrat, March IA, 1940. The "Greek" must have been in desperation. It's the first til4.e in Greek history, a Greek borrowed the proverbs of a China man = Conufucius. The Greeks didn't have @ word for 1t, but Con- fucius did.
 A ROMAN
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A Thought for Today

He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.-Lavater.
  man be found stealing any of his breth- ren of the children of Israel and maketh mer- chandise of him, or seIIeth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from you.-DeuterOnOmy 24:7.
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ing in organ dzed labor this spring.
 No vote by either House of Con gr sS is n e essary to bring such an invest fig tion about. A com- mittee exis t s with the power the money. and the time to do the job; and there is req son to believe that 1t will nre-
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.Ouestiors
 and Answers
BY FREDERIC M. KIRBY

0A kA9201A2AO IAe aAAaAsA&A
 Enclose . three cent stamp tor reply when addressing any ques- tion of fact or information to the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. Legal and medical aGssce cannot be given, nor can extended researnh be un. taken. Be sure all mail is ad- dressed to The WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU., REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c.
 THE EDITOR.
 e. What is Candlemas Day2
 A. It is the Christian feast of the purification of the Virgin Mary, and occurs on February 2.
 e. In what picture did Nancy Kelly appear first Jesse James" or Tail Spin?"
 A. Jesse James," released the week of January 27, 1889. 'TaiI Spin" was released the week of Feb- ruary 10, 1899. Before either of those films, Miss Kelly had appeared in Submarine Patrol" and years ago as a child in number of silent films. @. Are employers required to fur- rish employees with statements show ing social security tax deductions?
 A. The Social Security act amend- ments of 1889 provide that, on and after January 1, 1940, employers are
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Washington Merry-G Go-Round
DREW PEAR 5 0 N ROBERT s. ALLEN
British Let-Down of Finland Major Disaster for Allies; MuddIed London Usual Saw Finnish Bluff" Too Late
NEA Service. Inc

WASHINGTON 16 that artillery fields Of Finland the Allies are getting an almost picture what that Finland beside
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National Spotlight
By BRUCE CATION Waterbury Democrat Washington
 COrregpOndentl

Washington, March 16.-There is quite likely to be a broad Con- gressional investigation of racketeer-l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-16

London women are again carry- ing inuffs after Q "try-out" Q year ago.
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TODAY's COMMON ERROR Do not say, "That was all the farther I could see"; say, "That was as far as I could see."
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What's Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
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If you want 8 copy of the book let THE HUMAN BODY" send to The Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thir- teenth Street, Washington. D. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Phoenix index., 1940-03-09

NEW ORLEANS, La.-(SNS)-
F. A. Young, chairman of the Ma
tional Negro Insurance Week CON-
mittee, announced the beginning
of the Second Annual ESSAY
CONTEST for Junior and Senior
High School students, the sub
ject: THE OPPORTUNITIES
OFFERED TO NEGRO YOUTH
BY LIFE INSURANCE. The Es-
says, limited to five hundred (5O0)
words, are to be turned in to Mem
ber Companies of the National
Negro Insurance Association, or
their representatives, between Feb
ruary Is, 1910, and midnight,
April 80, 1940r
Three National Prizes of $100,
$50, and $25 are offered. In every
state where Negro companies oper-
ate, additional prizes of $3.50,
$3.50, and $500 will be awarded
for winning essays in that state
More than three thousand essays
were submitted in 1899. The 1910
contest, leading up to the Ma"
tional Negro Insurance Week,
May to IL, 1910, will command
great interest throughout the na-
ton.
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Last Rites Held For DIR.
A. WiLberforce Williams
Death Follows
Heart Attack;
Was IS Years Old

CHICAGO - CAMP Funeral
services were held here wednesday
for DR.. A. Wilberforce Williams,
rs. whose death at his home on
Monday came as a result of a
heart attack. A pioneer physician of
this city, DR.. williams had COM
pleted 46 years of active practice
at the time of his death.
Regarded as a foremost author
ity on medical science, DR.. Will
liams was the first co1ored doctor
to write newspaper health articles,
dispensed medical advice through
the Chicago Defender for 20 years.
Born in Monroe, La, January 81,
1865, DR.. Williams received his
early education in that city. Later
he attended the normal school in
Jefferson City, Mo, and entered
Northwestern university medical
school from which he graduated, in
1894. In 1902 he married Miss Mary
Elizabeth Tibbs, of Danville, KY.
She died several years ago.
Funeral services were held at st.
Edmunds Episcopal church of
which he was an active member.
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II cCc Camps
TO Be Closed;
Lack Of Funds

WASHINGTON, D. CLAMP
Twenty-seven CCC camps for Ne
groes will be closed because Of the
lack of appropriations 10 continue
them, i'll the general reduction OF
these ca as throughout t,.- &C n
try, according to an official closely
Identified with the government,
who further says that this repre-
sents one-tenth of the total
camps in the country to be dis
continued.
Two hundred and seventy three
camps throughout the United
States are to be closed down In the
general retrenchmeat program.
Of the Negro camps to be closed,
it is highly doubtful whether any
state or cops area will lose more
than one camp due to the fact
that all-Negro camps are now
operated in 81 states.
However, the determinging fac
tor in closing the camps is guided
by the nearness to completion of
projects in which the camp is in
terested.
"a WILL LOSE JOBS
At the same time, this will mean
a loss of q jobs by Negroes as
educational advisors which pay
$4,000 per annun; approximately
100 cooks and $50 boys known as
rated men whose pay is from $36
to $45 per month.
Some $4,000 to 100000 per
month sent home by boys who
would norninally be in the 27
camps to be discontinued, will o.
kept from Needy families, and over
2,7OO boys will he thrown out Of
the camps where they have been
kept in an attenlLt to rehabi,itate
and train them 4or useful lives
When the whole program goes
into effect, it is expected that
strong protests will be registered
from all quarters, especially those
sections which have prof1ted by
the proximity of the camps.
COMMUNITIES TO LOSE
Aside from the actual men in
the camp, communities which
have served these camps and been
the recipients of many fayors
from the inhabitants will naturally
lose in the general shuffling of
sites, and they too are expected to
join in the general protest whic
is expected to rise when the actual
identity of the camps to be dis
continued is revealed.
No definite steps to this disso-
luton have as yet been taken, but
it is conceded that 27g will be
abandoned and their inmates re-
turned home.
The Phoenix index., 1940-03-09
Drive Launched
In Washington

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(SNS)-
A campaign by thirty national Or
CARNATIONS to provide safeguards
for the welfare of Negroes in the
proposed National disqualification
Act of 1910" was launched here
last week.
re The bill, which is before Con-
gress, is designed to put hospitals,
at government expense, "in rural
districts and economically depress-
ed areas" 1t does not provide for
an equitable distribution of the
funds proportionately TO the health
need of Negroes, for Negro physl-
clans to be allowed to follow their
patients into. the hospital, for Negro
nurses and personnel, nor for the
equalization of salaries for service
rendered.
The majority of the hospitals
would be placed in the South where
health conditions are worse among
the colored group. The group has
the worse health conditions of any
other group in America. Statistics
show tnat although they have
one-tenth OF the population they
get one -tlairtieth OF the hospital
space; there is one hospital bed
for every $50 white persons and one
bed for every 1900 Negroes ano
that there are only 100 hospitals
In the entire South serving nine
million Negroes. Because of dis
elimination and lack of hospital
facilities, persons have died who
might have been saved by proper
attention One Of the most out
standing Of these cases resulted IN
The death Of Juliette Dericotte,
late dean Of women at Fisk Uni
versity. who was making a trip
from Nashville, Tennessee, to At
lanta and met with a serious auto
mobile accident. After trying to get
treatment in several hospitals and
being refused, she at last received
treatment in the basement of a
hospital, but too late to save her
life.
Colored Americans are urged to
send affidavits of any race dis
examinations in hospitals anywhere
in the United States. The affida-
Wits would specify names, addresses
and dates regarding the discrimin"
alton and as many details regard
ing the discrimination as possible,
Since the bill may be brought up
almost any time, readers ale urged
to send in the affidavits at once
to the National Non-Partisan
Council on Public Affairs Of Alpha
Kappa Alpha, 1120 Girard Street,
N. W, Washington, D. c.
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St. Louis Y Is
Host To Women
Deans Meeting

ST. LOUIS-(ANP)-Of the $50
representatives attending the an
nua1 convention of the National
Association of Deans of Women
here last week, II were deans from
Negro colleges, some of whom were
attending their first annual meet
ting. The entire colored bloc en-
tered into discussion groups and
activities held at the Hotels Stat
Ter and Coronado, and Miss Hilda
A. Davis, dean of women at Tai
ladega, served ion an evalutaion
committee.
Others attending the conven-
ton were: Dorothy Johnston Mil
Ter, Virginia State; Edna Winston,
Tougaloo college; Minnie Meares.
Alabama State; Hazel Browne
Williams, Louisville Municipal col
lege; Jessie Parkhurst, Tuskegee;
Mayme Upsl1aw Foster, Fisk; Susie
Elliott, Howard; T. Ruth Brett,
Dillard, and Mrs. 1. r. Bolton,
Lincoln. ......
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NEW YORK-(SNS)-American
youth, regardless of race, creed or
color was asked today to contrib
ute pennies, dime and nickels,"
to help raise $4,000 for me-
mortal to James Weldon Johnson,
famed poet and former executive
secretary of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of Col
ored People.
The plea was made by Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. chairman
of the James Weldon Johnson Me-
mortal Committee Praising Mr..
Johnson for his contributions to
American culture and the fight
for civil liberties, Col. Roosevelt
said:
James Weldon Johnson was one
of our greatest Americans. The
The Phoenix index., 1940-03-09

Mr.. Padmore points out that
most people, and especially Ameri-
can Negroes, have been deceived
about racial equality in the French
empire because they have based
their judgment on the Very min
ute" section of French Negroes who
are granted equality.
FRENCH MORE CLEVER
The French have been more
clever than the English, he de-
clares, in dealing with their dark
colonial populations.
Like the English, they educate
and train q small group OF color
ed people to help them control the
masses of Negro subjects. But
whereas the English MAINTAIN q
DIOR line even against the oark
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tions. citizens and subjects. and
that the vast ma jority-some sixty
nillion-is made up of subjects who
have no citizenship rights. They
cannot vote. they cannot hold Of
flee or do anything that a citizen
may do. They exist to work and pay
taxes. They may apply to become
citizens after fulfilling certain civil
and military qualifications. MI.
Padmore says: -.
so cleverly has the mask Cot
liberty, equality, fraternity been
used that the French capitalist
class has been able, more than any
other imperialist power, to deceive
the world regarding the true nature
of its despotism toward its colon
ial populations.
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Roosevelt Seeks Aid
For Johnson Memorial

services he rendered as author,
statesman and fighter for justice
give us honorable purpose in rear
ing memorial to his memory.
I'VE want all citizens to partici-
pate in helping To build this monu-
ment to him. Our committee thus
invites Negroes and white school
children to contribute their PEN
MES, nickels and dimes to aid us
in this campaign to raise $4,000.
We ask school principals ano
teachers to make this one OF their
projects, to organize youth COM
mittees to help us to raise funds.
The money for this purpose
should be sent to MIR. Gene BUCK,
treasurer OF the James Weldon
Johnson Memorial Committee, 6S
Fifth Avenue, New York City"
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Insurance Essay
Contest To Start

Assisting Chairman Young III
perfecting the National Organiza-
ton are: A. Douglas Doss, Secre-
tary, National Negro Insurance
Week Committee; C. Z. Towles,
Secretary, National Negro Insur-
ance Association; Geo w. Cox,
chairman, National Essay Contest;
and Agency officers of al! Men,
Der Companies and State Directors
of every state where Negro Cont
panies operate THE 194O GOAL
FOR NATIONAL MECH o IN
SURANCE WEEK $25, 100000 OF
NEW BUSINESS PLACED UPON
THE BOOKS OF NEGRO COM
PANIES.
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WOMAN SUES THEATRE

RALEIGH, S. ca N PJ-Snt
for $4,000 against the Royal thea
tre Cooperation of Tennessee for
injuries suffered as result CT a
theatre door being slammed IL her
face, was filed here last week by
Mrs. Ada Dark. Milton Starr,
owner of the East Hargett Street
theatre where the action is alleg-
ed to have taken place, also was
named IN the suit. 100000
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leaders they seem to favor, France
embraces this small group and
grants it full social equality. in
Guiding intermarriage.
This policy. with the English and
the French. has had the same re-
suit. namely, iron-Clad control of
the masses of the darker colonials;
but the French have been able to
plant the impression throughout
the world that they really believe
in equality.
NEGROES DIVIDED
The Padmore article in THE
CRISIS entitled Subjects and
Citizens in French Africa declares
that France, which has the largest
empire in Africa, has divided it's
Negro people into two classified