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From The Bottom Up
II. MCNEIL AWARDED FOR 30
YEARS OF SERVICE

Irvyn M. Mcneil, 3O26 South
thirty-second street, who rose from
tho ranks to become superinsend-
ent of distribution of the Nebras-
ka Power Company ten years ago,
completed thirty years service
with the company on August 10.
He was the dean of fourteen com
pany employees to receive service
awards last month.
Mr.Mc Neil began work in 1910
as a wireman and through a ser
les of promotion became general
foreman of substation, repair and
meter departments on July l, 1924.
A year later he was promoted TO
assistant superintendent of the
distribution department, and be-
came superintendent ON January l
1880.
Six men received twenty-year
service pins. They are Erick w.
Carlson, 1857 Pierce street, black
smith at the main power plant;
Walter w. Kruger, 2219 South
Eleventh street, Council Bluffs,
meter tester; Fred G. Steffs, 1902
Spring street, brickmason at the
power plant; Henry Roesky 2241
Larimor,e avenue, mechanical in
spector; Clifford Ludington, 1907
South Forty-eighth street, paymas-
ter, and Edgar R. Ostrand, 1928
Castelar,, line foreman.
Fifteen-year service pins were
received by John ]. Moylan, 342O
North Forty-fifth, office manag-
en-, sales department, Harry I.
F'aulhaber, 5403 Hickory, meter
tester, and Ralph Curry, 3124
Eighth avenue, Council Bluffs, tur
b.ne room oiler.
First service awards granted by
the company, for five years serv-
ice, were presented to Mrs. yeron-
lea Wagner 918 South tairty-sev.
enth street, sales clerk; James s.
Olsen, 1903 Hiatt avenue, Carter
Lake, lineman; Freeman E. Boyn'
ton, 1885 Bristol, s~ub-sSation &C.
partment, and Frederick H. Lane,
1915 South Fiftieth, garage en-
.ployee.
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The Welcoming addresses were
brought TO the group by outstand-
ing civic leaders, including Wend'
ell e. Green, civil service commits
sioner, who spoke on behalf of
Mayor Kelly and DIR. Joseph M.
Evans, pastor of the Metropolitan
Community Church. The presid-
ent of the Association, Mary Card
Well Dawson of Pittsburgh. res
pended.
The opening session brought a
great surprise for the audience in
that they were privileged to see
Mrs. Edward Mcdowell, wife Of
the great composer and b%enefactor
of many musicians, artists, writer's
and poets, at her Mcdowell Col
ony, and to hear her play. A pi-
anist of note, Mrs. Mcdowell rem
dered one of her husbands most
beloved numbers, "To a Wild Rose
She is 83 years old.
The musical program opened
with Lift Every Voice and Sing
with Grace Hhompkins and Elmer
Simpson at the pianos, Walter l..
Gossette at the organ and j. Wes-
lty Jones, directing, Mrs. Maude
Roberts George, presiding officer
was introduced by George H. Hut
Crimson, Mrs. George, one of Chi
cao's foremost musicians present
ed the artists to delegates and Wis
ftors.
By special request of Mrs. Nc
Dowell, the Metropolitan Commun-
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WHITES HELD FOR
FLOGGING

Spartanburg, S. c. Aug. 20 =
amp Five white men were plac-
ed under $4,000 bonds each last
week to await preliminary hear4
lngs on charges that they donned
masks and DISCUSSES on July ID
and flogged four Negro tenant
farmers on the Sam Snoddy farm
here
The five, ]. George Sherbert, 46
Earl Porter, "a, Ed Watson 81,
and Arrow Bennett, 80, were ar
rested after a four week investi-
cation. The reported victims said
they were dragged from their
homes by their assailants, carried
several miles and flogged with a
leather strap.
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ity Choir, under the direction of
j. Wesley Jones, sang several
numbers. Others appearing on
the program were the Progressive
Treble Clef Ensemble, Idna Whit
ers Johnson, Director and the Pill
grim Baptist Gospel Choir under
the direction of Thomas A. DORIS
ely.
Plans of the week included an
artists program for Friday night
when Aubrey Pankey, baritone, Or
rim Clayton, Suthern II, organiss,
Eta Moten, eontralto and George
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MUSICIANS CONVENTION AT
CHICAGO A SUCCESS

Chicago, August % amp At
tracing musicians from every sec-
ton of the country, the National
Association Of Negro Musicians
opened in convention here at the
metropolitan Community Church
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Bureau of Employment Security

BY A. OALEI kAHe =
Bureau of Employment Security
Today, the Negro, as well as 9th
Ell groups in u country, feels the eff
feet of a mechanical industrial and ag-
ricultural society. His social and eco
nomic life has been drastically chang
ed and his search for suitable employ
ment, sufficient earnings, and employ
ment security is a major problem.
During the period 192O-194O there
were two distinct population move
ments of Negroes. Approximately
two million Negroes migrated from the
South to urban industrial centers in
the Midwest, and to cities along the
North Att antic Seibdard. About the
time that this movement was taking
place, million Negroes from the
rural areas of the South moved to the
larger urban industrial centers of the
South. Thus, today large numbers of
Negro workers face a dual problem of
combating the ill-effects of the depres-
sion and making adequate occupation
a &C justment to a more complex, in
dustrial social order.
How has the Negro Jared in his
search for employment in this new or
changing order? What steps have
been taken to alleviate his economic
stress? AS with the unemployment of
other racial groups the Negro has been
forced by economic necessity to look
to his State and Federal Government
for assistance in finding productive,
continuing employment. To the 1900
public employment offices the Negro.
has turned for o%ccupational guidance
and job placement assistance.
Kinds of Job Openings
Employment opportunities for
NegnJes may be said to fall into three
categories. First, there are the jobs in
which Negro workers vie with white
workers. Usually these jobs are I'M
skilled and semiskilled-the lower brac
ket industrial occupations. 1t is in
this class of jobs that Negro workers
have made their greatest advance al
ong with white workers. Here also,
however, they have experienced the
greatest losses since the depression.
Many Negroes feel that they are "the
last to be hired and the first to be fir
ED.
The second category includes the
jobs in which Negro workers formerly
had a virtual monopoly. They repre-
sent the extremely low-paid jobs in
the industrial scheme as we'll as those
considered as having the least prest-
ige Domestic service is typical of this
field. At n time the Negro domestic
seldom had to compete against the
white worker. Even in this field TODAY
however, the Negroes job opportunit-
les are perhaps decreasing for in many
States young white girls are being
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trained for domestic service. In the
industrial field many of the lower paid
jobs, originally filled by the Negro
worker, r now done by machine.
Ditch-digging is representative of this
gpe of work. Today a Mechanical
trench-digger supplants many pick
and shovel men.
A third category may be design
ated as that class of jobs in which few
Negroes r today employed. Includ-
ed in this group r the jobs in which
employers are unaccustomed to seeing
Negroes work. Here also are the jobs
in which white workers sometimes of
fer decided objections to the employ
ment of Negroes, and those occupat-
ions in which Negroes are not permit
ted I'd secure training pr apprentice
ship. Negroes are restricted in employ
ment in other types of jobs by the en-
ployment policies of some labor unions.
The services performed by public
employment offices are passing thru
ugh a period of transition and of in
creasing public scrutiny of their objec-
tives, thir methods, and their accom-
plishments; and it is significant that
efforts are beng made to create sound
policies and to formulate suitable cri-
terra for measuring employer-employ-
ee needs. 1t is recognized that the re-
sponsibility of every public employ
ment office is to give equal placement
assistant to all workers and to refer
job applicants to employers on the
workers ability to perform the job
satisfactorily and meet the employers
qualifications. Within this fundamen-
tai principle there is still room, how
ever, to give particular consideration
and attention to the employment needs
of the Negro group.
Negroes in Employment Security
Program
The Bureau of Employment Sec
urity is interested in all aspects of Ne
gro occupational development and in
cooperative efforts to study this prob
lem. Recently the Negro Placement
Soruioo nopop1a4aJ n c,,1.x,o1r which bod
as its broad purpose the evaluation of
services to Negroes by employment Sc
curity offices in Is selected states.
Eight and one half millions, approx
mately two-thirds of the total number
of Negroes in the United States, live in
the area studied. More specifically,
the purpose of the survey was to des-
cribe in the case of each city the socio-
economic and racial environment in
which the local employment service
operates; the industrial opportunities
available; the size and movement of
Negro population and workers with
their implication in the general labor
market; job opportunities for Negroes
and depression %fluctuation of these OPP
portunities; the general inclination of
employers, and of organized labor to-
ward the employment of Negro work
ers; and the attitude of employment
security personnel toward the refer
raj of Negroes to job openings for
which they are qualified.
The survey revealed the need for
an intelligent aWareness on the part Of
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EDITORIALS
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY AND
THE NEGRO

(Reprinted from Employment Security Review,
Vol. 7, No. 7, July 1910, PIP. 12-1 Social Security
Board, Washington, D. C.
BY LAWRENCE A. OXLEY &2aas =
Bureau of Employment Security
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and Ethel Pierson, duo-pianists
were presented.
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Morning Musicale Artists
Offer Mel0dious Works
John Seagle, Suzanne Stem
And Emile Baume Present
ENJOYABLE PROGRAM
By ALICE EvERSMAN.

The three artists who combined their talents in the
terday morning musicale the
their listeners the hearing compost
tons At least
modernis morning
the thoroughly
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Paulette Goddard Learns
To Sit and Contemplate
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.

Paulette Goddard studying the cult
the contemplation Of my which, according the
the seat of final emotion The idea behind probably
striving
other finite interested thing
spread people they
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the best and gave noteworthy per-
formances Of the "Ballade In F
Minor" and "Etudes Nos. 3 and II
from Opus 49," Being inclined to
power rather than delicacy there
was less clarity In his playing yes
terday than at his former appear
ance, when he also played etudes
from the same opus. Although a
compatriot, Mr.. Baume has little
affinity with Debussy's thought and
style. The great French composers
"Poissons dor" and 'L'Isle Joyeuse"
being played with fine pianistic at
tention but little imagination. The
List caprice" was the climax both
of his program and his art.
The concert concluded with two
duets by Mr.. Seagle and Miss Stem,
"Gruss" and "Das Aehrenfeld," both
by Mendelssohn. Next Monday the
series will close with the program
by Rise Stevens, mezzo-soprano. and
Richard Crooks, tenor, both Of the
Metropolitan Opera.
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vehicle for Mr.. Horton to Demon
strate that kind of off-hand humor
which he made so successful in the
movies. Even If 1t is q case Of
proving that the play is not the
thing, "Springtime for Henry"
nevertheless demonstrates that Mr..
Horton is a funny fellow just as his
movie fans have been indicating all
along by their acceptance of his
particular method of making them
laugh.
Mr.. Levy's play is ideally designed
to suit the talents of Mr.. Horton.
It is concerned with the business
affairs of Henry Dowlip, a fuzzy
thinker who has reached a stage In
life in which his secretaries become
more than mere takers of dictation.
A long succession Of them leads up
to Miss Smith (Marjorie Lord,
whose apparent innocence is thing
Of complete charm to unwise Henry.
He becomes so smitten with it that
Miss Smith, in a kind of self defense
is forced to tell her story, a COM
pletely disillusioned story, you can
bet your last dollar. From there on,
Henry's job is one Of getting rid of
Miss Smith, the natural reaction of
a disillusioned man, especially when
he has a susceptible partner such
as Mr.. Jelliwen Gordon Richards).
1t was during the early summer
when Hollywood was running short
of opportunities for a comedian of
his popular talent that Mr.. Horton
decided to play "Springtime for
Henry" first on the barn circuit,
then on the road. It has been enor-
mously popular ever since and last
nights audience at the National
made it clear that its success was
due to the circumstance that Henry
Is Mr.. Horton, or vice versa. AS
the master Of expressing bewilder-
ment, the kind which gives oppor-
tunity for him to speak Levy lines
as If they were the perfect dialogue
which his movies sometimes have
lacked, Mr.. Horton has the time of
his life. So, naturally, does his audi
ence.
His company of four others is
chosen with admirable taste to &C
complish the dual purpose of bring
ing to new life the Levy comedy and
giving Horton a chance to be him
self. AS the Miss Smith whose story
so confuses him that he exchanges
her for Mrs. JelliWell (Barbara
Brown, Marjorie Lord manifests q
very neat understanding of the
slightly stiff English comedy repre-
sented in Levy's drama. Equally
good is Gordon Richards as Mr..
Jelliwell, the friend of Henry, who
is induced to exchange his wife for
Miss Smith when Henry's disillu-
sionment seems about to become
too much for him.
AS Mr.. Levy wrote it, there is not
a great deal to "Springtime for
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Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for Hen
ry." with Edward Everett Horton:
$3.50 pm.
Keith's-"Abe Lincoln in Illinois"
screen version of the Robert Sher-
wood play: II am, lilo. 800, $50
and 8:45 pm.
Palace-"Gone With the Wind
mammoth screen version of the
novel: Gas an, 2::45 and pm.
Earle - "The Fighting 69th, "
through the World War with gun
and Cagney: 1910 am, 1855, 4:15,
6:55 and 9:35 pm. Stage shows:
11:55 am, 3:15, 5:55 and 8:35 pm.
Birthday Ball celebration: 1870
pm.
Capitol-"Balalaika," Cossack gay
ETY. and Ilona Massey: 1890 am,
lis, 4:05, 6:45 and 9:35 pm. Stage
shows: 1925, 3:15, 5:55 and $40
pm. Birthday Ball celebration:
1880 pm.
Columbia Judge Hardy and
Son." more of Andy Hardy's trou-
bles: 11:35 am, lao, $40, 5:45,
7:45 and 9:45 pm.
Metropolitan British IntelI-
gence," melodrama of espionage:
11:40 am, 1:40, 3:45, $50, 7:50 and
9:55 pm.
Little-'Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde, !"
the academy award film version:
11:30 am, lao, 3:45, 5:45, 7:50 and
9:55 pm. Carmen" with Charlie
Chaplin: II am, LOS, $40, $40,
7:15 and 800 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con-
tinuous from 10 am.
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works in her picture ("It's DateD
Kay said, Hello" and walked
away. Said the baf1led Lewis,
"She's the most charmingly curt
woman I've ever met!"
John Garfield tells me that when
he returns to Hollywood-After his
play-he will buy home here with
q tennis court. I must have looked
surprised, because John said, why
not?" Maybe the boys right. Why
not? If you earn four-f1gure SAL
airy, why not indulge in things that
give you pleasure? Only I remem-
Der when Garfield first came to
Hollywood how emphatic he was
against the idea of owning house,
tennis court, or swimming pool. Was
he wrong then and right now? ANY,
way, he is currently saving his
money by the simple method Of
never seeing it. His salary check
goes direct to his wife in New York,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-30
E. Everett Horton Brings
A Comedy to National
And 'Springtime for Henry Proves
An Admirable Vehicle for
Showing Special Comedy Talent
Nv lay CARMODY.

Away back in 1881 ADJ the shubers don't mind paraphrase
wrote comedy called "Spngtme for
awuy funny comedy which suced
sort Of decent showing in the then detected thater
the National
Edward Horton awfuy funny comedy but
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latter's "Capriccio In E Flat" ar
ranged for piano from Paganini's
seventeenth caprice for violin.
AS q Chopin player he ranks with
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Jimmy Cagney's mother visited
daughter Jean on the set-it was
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Suzanne Stem, mezzo- contralto. and
the playing of Emile Baume, pianist,
who had chosen their numbers from
the best beloved repertoire.
Mr.. Seagle, who inevitably is iden-
titled as the son Of the famous Oscar
Seagle, was first on the program and
in the short space of three selec-
tons stood forth in his own right
as an artist of distinction. His voice
is quite the most beautiful baritone
of the concert stage and, from his
manner Of using it, he intends to
keep it so. The quality Of it has a
character all its own and its soft
and heart reaching timbre always
will win a responsive reaction from
those who enjoy vocal beauty at its
best.
Young and genuine in manner,
Mr.. Seagle is an artist who has
mastered the intricacy of correct and
easy production and now puts it to
good use in his songs. His inter-
probation always is refined, under
standing and'suave and if this leads
to sameness in style and delivery,
1t Is so fresh and pleasant that it
never becomes monotonous. Were
he inclined to seek greater variety,
a more definite legato and occasional
concentration of power In his tone
would bring it about.
His first group, including Nicolai's
"Air de Joconde," Hue's Lane
Blanc" and "Tanzlied des Pierrot"
from Korngold's die Tote Stadt,""
wherein his excellent French and
German diction was another pleas
urable aspect, was followed by the
strenuously demanded encore "L'Oi-
seau sen vole" from Masses paul
ct Virginie." English songs, with
two spirituals included, comprised
the second group, equally well
done and equally well appreciated.
Nathan Price gave ideal support at
the piano.
Miss Stem of the Prague Opera,
whose Washington debut 1t was, has
a charming personality and is expe-
rienced in knowing how to give out
the best that is in the song. Her
voice is large one, at its best,
however, in mezzo-forte singing.
Then its color becomes more express
sive and her use of it easier and more
controlled. The one aria on her
program, 20 Don Fatale" from YER
dis Don Carlos" was the least
successful of her numbers, its dra-
matte character needing a richer
tone than she possesses.
It was in the four "Zigeuner lie
der" by Dvorak, and Strauss
'Traum Durch dir Daemmerung''
and "Zueignung" that her interpre-
tive ability shone best and these she
sang with deep feeling and every
mark of thorough musicianship. Al
though the persistence and hearth
ness of the applause after each group
was an invitation for encores, she
gave none. Leo Taubman, her &C
companist, was somewhat overvigor-
GUS for the volume of Miss Stems
voice and especially in moments Of
more delicate singing.
The most picturesque member of
the trio was Mr.. Baume, whose re-
semblance to Chopin has often been
commented upon. Mr.. Baume is
already known to Mrs. Lawrence
Townsend's audience from a former
appearance and his reception yes
terday was q cordial one. His pro-
gram was confined to three COM
posers, Chopin, Debussy and Liszt,
his extraordinary, brilliant tech
nique finding full display in the
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managed to take . picture Of dreta
In an evening gown (outside Of her
movieO.
The story behind Miss CARLOS
sale Of her home In Sweden must
be told. The house, just outside
Stockholm, is on one side Of lake;
on the other side Is q public park.
Crowds of people would take up an
all-day stand in hopes of seeing
Greta. She complained to the
Mayor, who pointed out he could do
nothing because the park belonged
to the people. Greta then wanted
to put up fence. But that was for
hidden by law. So she is selling the
house. Tough luck, lady.
4 \
Gary Cooper's crouch against Boss
Sam Goldwyn Is based mainly on the
fact that the part played by Walter
Brennan in Gary's 1.-THE Westerner"
cannot help but steal the picture.
Don't get Mr.. Cooper wrong. He
does not begrudge Brennan good
role, but, as he says, IF I'm sup
posed to be the star Of the picture,
I ought to have the star role"
\ X + X
Richard Greene tells me he has
decided after all against buying q
house in Beverly Hills. He will rent
one instead. Can it be, that in
spite of all the talk linking him in
early matrimony with Virginia Field,
Mr.. Greene prefers to remain a bach
elor? To Judge by his repeated as
surances to me on this subject, I
would say "yes." (And now, having
written this, I suppose Dick will
elope tomorrowD. Latest victims
of California colds, which by the
way are much worse than the East,
North or Middle West variety-Shir-
ley Temple, and your correspondent.
So, If there is a touch of the sniffles
about this column, you'll know why.
The amusing part about the Joan
Bennett "blond-or-brunette" contro-
versy is that Joan's hair is naturally
dark, but she had to dye it yellow
when she first came to pictures.
Because yellow was then the FASH
ionable film color for femmes!
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
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Henry" But, as Mr.. Horton plays 1t,
there is great deal that will amuse
those who have concluded that his
comedy method Is one Of the finest
things the movies have spawned in
the last few years.
In that respect, the play is an
ideal choice Of vehicle, one that
should encourage other otherwise
unoccupied Hollywood .funnymen to
contemplate a return to the stage.
Watson Barrett's settings offer q
further encouragement in the same
direction.
Abrupt letter from Hardie Meakin
indicating just how an escort for a
celebrity to the Presidents Birth
day Ball goes about being an escort:
You will report to suite 1913,
Willard Hotel, at 7:15 pm, Tues
day, January 80. Your star at that
time (ours is Elsa Manchester, thank
Heaven) will be in the main ball
room for the dinner in this same
hotel. You have a copy of your
stars schedule. You will see that
you get your star out of that hotel
on her way to the first assignment.
"YouN car will be parked on F
street between 14th and 18th streets.
The doorman will have q number
for it, so when you bring your star
downstairs you have the doorman
call your car.
Keep your star moving and main
tain the schedule, or we will be-"
Yes, sir!
Among the other things scheduled
to happen in the amusement world
today is the opening Of British In
telligence" at the Metropolitan. The
cast is headed by Boris Karloh and
Margaret Lindsay, backed by a num-
Der Of Hollywood specialists In the
thrill drama.
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DESTINY Starts

With Basil Rathbone, Ellen Drew
and John Howard in the top roles,
Destiny" has gone before the cam
eras at Paramount's Hollywood
studio. The picture is the initial
assignment of Tim Whelan, writer
and director, under the Paramount
banner, although Paramount is re-
leasing Sidewalks of London, u
which he directed for Mayflower
Productions in England. Whelan
has brought a number of stars to
the screen. Among these are James
Stewart, Geraldine Fitzgerald and
Vivien Leigh.