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The weekly echo., 1940-03-15
National Negro Press
Association Ends
Executive Committee
NEE ING IN CHICAGO

by women Of the local auxiliary to the
Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical
association, 20 my idea it should no :.
one of the foremost places in any
well ordered home.
II we (the women of The home) are
70 safeguard our families, especially
our children we must have emer-
gency drug supplies on hand always,
slere IS a group of articles that is
listed in a well known drug magazine
tha should be found in every medi-
enc cabinet; Bandages, thermometer.
rubbing alcohol mild tine ure Of
iodine, oil of cloves, caster oil, corn
and bunion remedies, carbolated
vaseline, aromatic spirits of ammonia.
ooric acid, belladonna plaster, epson
salts, essence of PEPPERMINT, glycerin.
peroxide Of hydrogen, olive oil, medi-
Gated soap, spirits of camphor, tine
ture OF green soap, adhesive tape
scissors, hot water bottle, lie Big
medicine dropper, measuring glass
syringes and sterile gauza travelling
drst aid and medicine kit.
These drugs should be so arranged
as to be instantly available for APP
plica,ion to such minor hurts or ills
IS may occur almost at any time even
in the best regulated home.
Not only should cur cabinets be
well stocked but they should be
placed high enough on the wall to be
out Of the reach o! the children; it
should be kept clean and free from
dust, and if you think i advisable in
our particular family keep it locked
and the key secreted from the child
rem. ri
If poisons are necessary in the
binat be sure to see thai they are
ven labeled.
There are also few don'ts con-
etad with medicine cabinets also:
DON'T use strange medicines, or old
ledicines; Don't use rusty ms ruments !,
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The weekly echo., 1940-03-15

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The weekly echo., 1940-03-15
About Folk We
Know

Mrs. Lenora Young Elliott is in the
Meridian Sanitarium, where she viii
undergo a throat operation
Mrs. Adlean Larkin Hardy is con-
fined to her bed on account of illness.
Rev. R. L. Young, Editor of the
Weekly Echo, attended the Newspaper
Convention in Chicago, H. last week.
The Harris High School presented
the Alcorn band Monday night in the
HB.A auditorium in a musicale.
A Leap Year party was given at
Rose He'll M. E. church, Monday night
March 11th. This affair was spcn-
sored by Misses Lillian Larkin and
Martha Hardy.
Mrs. Dollie Hardy, wife of Mr..
Preston Hardy, is still confined to her
bed after a nattacll of the Flu.
Mr.. Frank Johnson of Newton, Miss
vas in the office Saturday on business
pertaining to his H B. A. lodge.
MIR. Fred Cherry of Laurel, formerly
Continued OF page threel
The weekly echo., 1940-03-15
National Interest Aroused
In Leading Community
Contest


CHICAGO, March (ANP)- Wide
spread national interest in both urban
and rural areas has been aroused in
the international truck, valued at
$1,000 to be awarded in May by the
International Harvester company to
the Negro community making the
greatest recent contribution to the
welfare of its residents.
Judges in the contest will assemble
early in May to select the winner,
They include Dr. M o. Bousfeld,
julius Rosenwald fund Negro Health
director; Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune,
NYA executive and president of Be-
thune Goodman college; DR.. F. D.
Patterson, president of Tuskegee;
Walter White, NAACP executive Sc
cretary and DR.. Claiming H. Tobias,
of the YMCA National Council
Communities are requested to send
n their contest entry, a typewriter
digest of the work accomplished, not
exceeding 500 words in length. All
entries, to be eligible for consideration
must be received before May l, 1910.
These digests are to be sent to DR..
M. o. Bousfield, care of the Interna
tional Harvester company, 1870 North
Michigan avenue, Chicago.
The truck, after being assembled
with the type of body chosen by the
winner for the greatest service in its
program will be on exhibition d.
the American Negro exposition in
Chicago from July 4 through Sept. 2
with a description of the winning
community's contribution to the vel
fare of its residents. This exposition,
depicting the races progress in the
Is years since emancipation, is cx-
pected 10 attract thousands of visitors
from all sections of the nation.
1t was pointed out that in this con
test the small rural settlement in
spersely populated area has as much
chance Of being named the nation
foremost community as does a churcb,
school or some other organization in
a large city. The judges will base
THAR decision solely upon how bene
dcient an entrants recent program
mas been to the residents of its com
munity as outlined in the typwrittea
digest.
The weekly echo., 1940-03-15

Washington, March 10 1t was
learned this week that the National
/, Negro Congress has asked the At
torney General of the United States
to place the entire Department OF
Justice into motion around a national
campaign to guarantee the citizen
ship rights of IL million Negro People
in the South. Ihis information came
to light when Congress ofici Is an
nounced that after months OF careiu
planning hey were bringing to Wash
ington on March 10 actual viotia.s
of Ku Klux Klan mobs AMI paonaea
. farms for the purpose of having then
tell their own stories to At orney
General Robert H. jackson and o<he1
/, Department of Justice officials.
Another indication of this effort
wos given when the national secre-
tary of the Congress, John P Davis
In his testimony on the anti-lynchine
bill before the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee last week introduced into the
record factual evidence of wholesale
Ku Klux Khan terror in a number Of
Southern States.
Congress officials, however refused
= make public at this time the names
the witnesses whom they with
preesnt to the Attorney General. They
declared that to do so would b. 'to
place in jeopardy the lives of these
witnesses who come from sections of
the country where they are in con-
-stant fear OF being beaten or killed
by organized Khan te~roris e
It is known that one of the w n SIS 7e
to be brought here will be VIII
The weekly echo., 1940-03-15
Negro Congress Seeks
Action On Negro
Rights From Uni.cd
STATES DEPARTMENT Of JUSTICE

FLEMING, Negro farm worker from
Oglethorpe County, Georgia, who has
been he'd IN peonage on a plantation
in that county for nearly Is years.
Fleming, it is understood, was forced
10 work for the owner of the plar-
tation during this period for an an
nual wage of less than $40 a year.
He escaped a few months ago and
made his way to Chicago where his
story and those of several hundred
other Negro farm workers held in
similar conditions of slavery became
known.
The weekly echo., 1940-03-15
COLO I'D FARMERS SHARE
in CONSERVATlO1 AM
SOIL BUILDING PAYNE IS

In the series OF commun y meet
mgs that are being heia over the
county this week, the farmers are
receiving their conservation and soil
building payments, which viii a.
mount 10 several thousand dollars.
states County Farm Agent :. L.
Ihanoae
At these meetings the 1910 Ia m
The weekly echo., 1940-03-15
Meridian District
South Zone Meet
THE SOUTH ZONE

THE SOUTH ZONE
The South Zone Of the Meridian
District CINE. Church will be held
at Leach's Chapel c. NJ. E. Church,
Collins, with Rev. E. D. Barksdale
and his people, a new pastor, but the
same man will be host of the meet
ing. The sermon will be delivered
by Rev. C. I. Thompson, pastor of
tn Blue Springs Circuit.
1t is expected that each pastor and
his people of the South Zone be pres
ent with round reports and repre-
senta ives to appear on prog am. Our
reports are $1OO 70 rthe senior So
cieties and soc for the Juniors. A
program will be rendered by the
young folk.
AE B. Easterling, chairman.
The weekly echo., 1940-03-15

Program is being discussed and en-
pAasized 50 that farmers may make
lelr plans to cooperate ag in this
year
rs these meetings are threafold.
ta- Farm Bureau comes in for It's
#Fe q attention and quite a feg
Anew members are being added
The weekly echo., 1940-03-15
By rria SUE Fialser

Althoueh this is the los Of a group
of articles presented in the ECHO"
The weekly echo., 1940-03-15

"A JUDGE on NATIONAL c0lnIUNTY CONTEST FoR NEGROES
Evening star., 1940-06-09

High back maple frame
rockers, favorites for years
with double woven rattan
seats and backs and wide
arm rests with metal sup
ports. Frames enameled in
green with orange trim.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Soapbox Derby Racer,
Champion Of 80, 10 Be
At2 Schools TODAY
Powell and Paul Junior
High Students to See
Cederstrund's Coaster

Boys jammed the Eliot Junior
High School auditorium yesterday
to learn about Soap Box Derby
racers in general, and the 1910
Washington Derby in particular as
last years championship coaster
racer was continued on it's exhibi-
ton tour of District junior high
schools.
Earlier, during the lunch period,
the racer which carried Carl Ceder-
strand, jr., to the 1899 Derby cham
pionship of Washington was seen
by crowds of boys at Alice Deal
Junior High School, where the
champion himself answered ques-
tions on the racers construction.
Today the miniature racer, which
was built at cost of $685., was to
stop at Powell Junior High School
from IL o'clock until ITO pm, and
then move on to Paul Junior High
School, where it was to be exhibited
from 2:50 pm. until $3.50 pm. At
Paul Junior High more than a dozen
youngsters already have signed up
for the Derby, which is to be run on
July 13.
Legionnaires Answer Questions.
American Legionnaires A. H.
Thompson of George Washington
Post, No. /, and I. N. Hildebrand of
Sergeant Jasper Post, No. 13, ac-
companied the racer on the tour.
They answered questions fired at
them by the boys at both schools.
They told the boys that Washing
tons third Soap Box Derby, which
is sponsored by The Star and the
American Legion, is open to boys
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Miss Perkins Denies
Failure 10 Enforce
immigration Law
Reply to Tober Cites
Work in Clearing Up
Dishonest Situations
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Perkins, called a no
torious incompetent" by Representa-
tive Taber, Republican, of New York
retorted today that her regime had
cleared up irregularities and dis
honest situations found in the I'M
migration Service when she took
control in 1898.
Miss Perkins wrote Representative
Taber that she would ignore his
opinion about her competency, but
that she felt compelled to label as
mot true" his assertion in House de-
bate Monday that she has steadily
and steadfastly failed and refused
to enforce the immigration law and
continuously admitted and kept here
those who were not entitled to stay"
The House voted this week to
hasten the transfer of the Immigra-
ton Service from Miss Perkins
Labor Department to the Justice
Department.
The immigration law has been
enforced faithfully and effectively
during the last seven years." she
said in her letter to Mr.. Taber.
When she took Office in 1893. she
continued, she was confronted by
clear evidences of corruption in Ger
tain Offices"
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Crime Commission Ready
To fiqht Fifth Column
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 29.-The
Interstate Commission on Crime is
ready to work with Federal and
State law enforcement officers
against any fifth column" activi-
ties in the Nation. and its president
has asked Gov. OConor to inform
President Roosevelt of the commits
sion's readiness to serve.
Gov. O'Conor is a director and
one of the organizers of the COM
mission founded five years ago, and
Richard Hartshorne, Newark, presi-
dent, informed him yesterday of the
groups interest in combating any
subservise element in the country.
He asked Gov. OConor to arrange
a conference on the subject with
President Roosevelt ito bring mat
ters to a head"
The Governor also was asked to
of1er the commission's services to
the Governors conference when it
meets in Duluth, Mimi, June 2-5.
A definite plan to obtain co-opera-
ton of all law enforcement officials
in drive against any fifth column"
activity has been completed, Mr..
Hartshorne wrote Gov. O'Conor.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Moral Preparedness
Vital in u. 5. Defense
Wenes Declares
Undersecretory Speaks
At Mural Dedication
At Library Of Congress

Moral preparedness is equal in i'm
portance to material preparedness as
an element of the Americas ability
to resist aggression and preserve
their institutions of freedom, Under
secretary of State Welles declared
yesterday In a brief address at dedi-
cation Of a mural, THE Arms of
Christopher Columbus" in the His
panic Foundation room Of the Ii
brary of Congress.
TOO many of us in these recent
generations have grown fat-fat
physically and fat mentally" Mr..
Welles asserted. I'VE have led our
selves to believe that we are all of
us secure because we wanted to be-
lieve that we were secure"
Remarking that, fortunately for
each one of them" the American re-
publics today are bound together by
bonds of understanding more firmly
than at any other time, Mr.. Welles
said, ANY act of aggression by
non-American power, whether it be
committed south or north of the
Equator, is a challenge to the Sc
curity of all and will be SO regarded
by them"
Archibald MacLeish, librarian of
Congress, introduced Mr.. Welles to
an audience of several hundred, in
cluding Latin American diplomats,
assembled in the room and to Co.
lumbia Broadcasting System listen
ers.
The mural, installed over the
tablet commemorating establish
ment Of the Hispanic Foundation in
1927 by Archer M. Huntington, was
painted on stainless steel by Mrs.
Buell. Mullen of Chicago. 1t is semi
circular in shape. 10 feet high and
l6 feet wide and weighs 1900
pounds.
Illusion of Third Dimension.
The work. following the design of
DR.. Paul Philippe Cret, architect of
the room, bears the Columbus arms
and the words. "Por Castillo y Leon
Nuevo Mundo halo Colon"-for
CASTLE and Leon, Columbus discov-
cred a new world. The effect of
painting on stainless steel is a high
brilliance combined with the illu-
sion OF third dimension, provided
by the glistening unpainted areas.
The steel was given by the Allie
gheny Ludlum Steel Corp. of Pitts
burgh, Pa, which also retained
Mrs. Mullen to paint the mural.
Evening star., 1940-05-29

Samuel Untermyer, lawyer; earle
Laemm!e, film producer; George
William Cardinal Mundele
Charles M. Schwab, steel manufac-
turer; Floyd Gibbons, war corre-
spondent; Secretary Of the Navy
Swanson.
Addition to the Who's Who family
include these sons of famous fathers: !:
Carter Glass, jr., publisher, son
OF Senator Glass of Virginia; Her.
bert Hoover, jr, geophysicist, son of
the former President; DR.. Charles
William Mayo, Nelson A. Rockefel-
Ter representing third generation
in Who's Who); Elliott Roosevelt,
son of the President; Francis S.
Hutchins, president of Berea Col
lege, KY. who succeeded his father,
and who is brother of Robert
Maynard Hutchins, president of the
University of Chicago; William L.
White. foreign correspondent, a son
of William Allen White, the Kan
sas editor and author.
26.7 Per Cent College Graduates.
While Who's Who primarily is
concerned with conspicuous Amer
leans, many foreigners who have be-
come closely identified with the
United States-like Ignace Jan Pad
erewski, pianist and former Premier
of Poland; Eduard Benes, former
President of Czecho-Slovakia, and
Heinrich Bruening, once chancellor
of the German Republic-are listed.
An educational study in back of
the book, based on the 1934-1935
edition, shows that far the greater
number of those listed were college
graduates, with 26.74 per cent hav-
ing doctors degrees in philos-
ophy, science, letters, medicine,
surgery or dentistry More than II
per cent, however, in both that edi-
ton and the previous one have no
college degrees, and around 7 per
cent had only common school edu-
cation.
Another innovation this year is
pronouncing supplement for difficult
names.
There is a complete index Of
names arranged by States, subdi-
vided into towns.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Phi Beta Kappa Elects
D. 6. and Virginia Youths

Carl Oliver Muehlhause of 1925
Rhode Island avenue NV. Is one
Of IA University of Virginia students
elected to Phi Beta Kappa, ma
tional honorary scholastic society,
Walter S. Rodman, dean of the en-
gineering school and secretary of
the organizations chapter at the
Charlottesville institution, has an
nounced.
Others to be initiated June in
clude Roy John Britten, Arlington,
Va; Walter Francis Cornnell and
William Wilson Koontz, Alexandria;
Raymond Carlyle Dingledine, jr.,
Harrisonburg, and William Pen
nington Snavely, Charlottesville.
Evening star., 1940-05-29

between II and IS years old. To
enter, every boy must register at
one of the Chevrolet motorcar deal
ers in Washington or nearby Mary
land or Virginia. After he is regis
tered and has signed a safety pledge,
each entrant then will receive an
official rule book, and will be able to
60 to work on his car.
No car must cost more than $40.
and each racer must be built in ac-
cordance with the rules outlined in
the book. The cars must be built
by boys and must not show any evi-
dence Of adult construction, al
though adults may advise the boy
builders.
Derby Broadcast Today.
H. N. Saunders, first vice COM
mander Of the District Department
of the American Legion and chief
starter for the third consecutive
year, was to speak today over Sta
ton WMAL on the regular Soap
Box Derby broadcast at AIS pm.
MI. Saunders was to tell of plans
for giving each boy fair start in
the races on Derby day, and of the
changes to be made in the Derby
starting ramp.
The exhibition tour of last years
championship racer will be contin-
ued after the Memorial Day holiday,
with stops scheduled on Monday at
Gordon Junior High School and
Hine Junior High.
"One of the questions asked most
often by the boys" Zeb T. Hamilton,
Derby director, said, lis where Is
the Derby going to be held?'"
1--WE have picked a fine site for
the 1910 Derby" Mr.. Hamilton said,
but we can't announce it yet. We
will, however, tell you where it is
Evening star., 1940-05-29

are brown with white edgings.
Rump and upper wing coverts are
white and the abbreviated tail is
brown, reminding you of an ami
mated feather duster when its own
er becomes somewhat agitated over
little annoyances. The bright yell
low legs and black outer claw COM
plete an ensemble that is very
smart. The bean goose Is an alert,
outstanding fellow, who knows his
way about.
Madam B. Goose builds her nest
on dry tussocks not far from a lake
or body of water. The eggs have
yellow blotches on white ground
and some of them may be q pure
white. There are from IL to II
eggs laid. 1t is a very fine family,
indeed, which the mother leads
Evening star., 1940-05-29

going to be held in a few weeks, so
that you'll all have a chance to look
1t over, and perhaps take trial spin
In your racers.
Il can tell you this" he continued.
ut will not be held at New Hamp-
shire avenue NE, the site of the
1898 race. nor at Massachusetts
avenue NV, where it was held last
year. Watch The Star for news of
the Derby site"
Must Be Registered.
Mr.. Hamilton also warned the
boys planning on racing on July l3
that they must be registered If they
want to compete.
Il know that a number of the
boys building racers now have not
registered at one of the Chevrolet
dealers yet.
Il want to remind you that we
have no way of knowing who is
going to race unless we have their
registration slips. Only by referring
w CllCoC oApS Will VIC AllOW WIiO ID
to receive racing numbers and Derby
day instructions. If you have regis
tered, however, you may be sure
that your name is included on The
Derby roster
Four more potential prize winners
had their names added to the rapid
ly growing Derby roster today. They
are:
Maurice c. Barco, jr., IS, 27OO
Twenty-fourth street NE; Jay
Bisgyer, II, $500 Nebraska avenue
NV; William Chapman. Is, Cap
ital View avenue, Kensington, Md,
and William l.. Stevens, IA, 1929
Wisconsin avenue NV.
A-f
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Natures Children
Bean Goose
(Anser fabalis)

forth to make their first attempt to
swim.
The goslings have white edgings
on their feathers on the upper sur
face of f1anks and body and there
is a decided rufous tint. When
the young birds acquire their first
plumage they are much darker than
their parents. The head and neck
are an earth gray, the throat is
lighter and the upper breast also
earthly gray. There are rows of
plumules which are separated by
burrows on either side of the neck.
These have light tips and it is
believed that these feathers really
have some of the natal down cling
ing to them.
Gray and white predominant on
the wings and body. The brownish-
white feet and dingy yellowish legs
do not combine in making the trim
and well-groomed appearance that
is so evident in the garments worn
by the parents. However, this
color scheme will be replaced by
a more beautiful one resembling
that worn by the adults when the
younger generations are donning
their nuptial plumage. Then they
are well-turned-out group, at
tracing your attention at once-if
you ever have the opportunity of
observing them at this season OF
the year.
Many confuse the bean goose with
the yeuow-bill. There is, of course,
decided difference, once you be-
come acquainted with either of
them. The bean goose has a small
er, shorter and thicker bill than
the yellow-bill's. The two birds do
not have the same dates for mi
grating or the same nesting places.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Civil Court So Speedy
Second Supplement-:
To Calendar Is Made;
Time Between Filing
And Hearing Of Coses
Greatly Reduced

For the first time in the history
OF District Court, it was learned to-
day, 1t has been necessary to COM
pile a second supplement to the
civil calendar, so rapidly have the
nine justices, serving on the civil
bench, been disposing of cases.
In some branches of the civil
court progress has been so rapid
that divorce cases are now being
tried within eight months after be-
ing placed on the calendar. The
time elapsing between the filing Of
case and its being placed on the
calendar depends upon litigants and
their lawyers.
In last October jury cases came
to trial some % months after being
placed on the calendar, but IN the
interim the justices on he civil
bench have been disposing of such a
mass Of work that they are row
coming to trial IS months after. In
October non-jury cases were being
heard about % months after, but
this time has now been reduced to
about nine months.
First Supplement About Easter.
The calendar for the term, which
began last October, was made up
during the summer. 1t was necessary
about Easter to make up a first
supplement.
Officials anticipate that the second
supplement will care for cases that
are to be heard the rest of this
month and June, when the current
term ends. Non-jury cases include
divorce actions, patent cases, in.
functions and similar litigation.
The celerity with which civil busi-
ness has been dispatched in District
Court is attributed to pre-trial
procedure in which cases are mar
rowed down to their essentials, to
compromises arrived at with the
assistance of one of the judges, and
by settlements agreed upon between
the lawyers and their clients.
rs to 30 Divorces a Day.
1t is not unusual for Is to 80
uncontested divorce cases to be dis
posed of by one jurist in a single
day, so rapidly has the calendar
been moving.
Sitting now in the civil division
OF District Court are Chief Justice
Alfred A. Wheat, who concentrates
on land-condemnation cases; JUS
tices Jennings Bailey. Oscar r.
Luhring, Jesse C. Adkins, James
M. Proctor, Daniel w. ODonoghue,
who is presiding in Motions Court,
where brief matters are disposed of
rapidly; Bolitha j. Laws. who is pre-
siding in the Pre-Trial Court; T.
Alan Goldsborough and David A.
Pine.