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The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14
By ROBERT M. RADCLIFFE


WE'VE GOT UP A LITTLE BET" said the masculine
voice at the other end of the wire. :
asked him what it about, hoping all the time it
would be question could Most questions coming
to the Atlanta Daily World desk of sports ma
ture And in most cases. the sports department out play
ing bridge Which leaves it to to tumble through
Its about that picture of Maxine Sullivan which ap-
peared on the page Daily World Tuesday
oh yeah replied, Mice picture of Miss Sullivan
"But l want to know if the World didn't make mis-
take the masculine voice shot back Il mean, that
really picture of Maxine"
Sure said That's the picture her booking office sent
There brief pause could tell my unseen neigh
Dor either disappointed or, dissatisfied
Then, he spoke again
"She certainly didn't look like that picture, did SheY
found mysef being frank. So, told him the picture
The telephone clicked at the other of the wire
hung up the receiver and looked up at the copy boy who
had taken seat top OF the desk to listen to the
sation Copy boys inquisitive like that.
| asked him if he attended the Labor Day morning
dance at Aantas municipal auditorium where Miss Subj
and Tiny Bradshaws orchestra entertained than
5000 colored and white patrons.
He said he there and boased of the fact that he
backstage where he really could what going
"Do you think Miss Sullivan resembles the picture
printed this morning" asked him.
He didn't intend for to catch him out limb. So
he said
"Well it did, and it didn't"
"Whatcha mean by that?"
"Its like this" chirped the combination copy and of
flee boy "Miss Sullivan is really plain sort of woman.
There's nothing gamorous about her But she being great
one of those finished pictures
He produced a picture from his almost empty pocket
book to show what he meant by finished picture 1t
a picture of himself. "a
"Gosh" said, "Ths snap really flatters YOU This pic
ture must have been touched up" -s>. ,.~'
"Thats what | mean about Maxine he tod me- "The
photographers touched up the picture" Il,
He lit cigarette. ~
did you that fur jacket she wearing?" the
boy asked And did you the way the guys fo lowed
her around tried to get autograph but somebody
always in way especially bird who kept trying to
hold her hand
YEAH said, "And out at the airport"
"Boy, she went big cut there too didn't she" my
friend the boy said Why they her half of the
airport reporters radio program And do you know they
heldp the morning plane to New York for her twenty
utes Monday morning when she failed put an appear
ance Yessr she's really got the word in the palm of her
hand'
Just the copy boy made up his mind to let me 60
back to work. another picture of Miss Sullivan reached the
news desk 1t showed Maxine being interviewed at the At
anta airport by Herbert Harris of the WSB
Are you going to print this picture Wednesday," he
wanted to know
told him it the plan of the paper to do So ill.,
| "She amt glamorous here is she?' the copy boy
told and asked me a at the time.
Nope, replied "But it will give the boys something
| to talk about. Maybe there will be BETS"
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14
NEW BOOKS

THE ATTITUDE OF THE
SOUTHERN WHITE PRESS
TOWARD SUFFRAGE, 1882
1910. Edited by Rayford W.. Lo-
gan, Ph.D., with forewOrd by
Charles H. Wesley, Ph.D. Pub
lished by The Foundation Pub
fishers, Washington, DC. 1910.
lis pages. Price IS cents.
The presentation of excerpts from
the editorial and news columns Of
Southern white newspapers on The
matter of Negro suffrage in this
new book appears to Be of the most
completely representative sample.
In Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and
Virginia, almost without excep-
ton, the white press is in accord
with the practice of keeping Ne
gro residents disfranchised, &C
cording to the editorials of leading
papers in these states The papers,
like the majority of their white
reading public, apparently favor
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

Elly'
For the sake of this discussion
Negroes, especially urban Negroes,
are being divided into those who
have, those who seem to have"
and the "have nots" The kind Of
lives lived by the first two are di-
rectly related to the kind of lives
t h can be lived by the lat
ter. To those people Of the majori-
ty racial group who for one rea-
son or another attempt to evaluate
the Negro racial group there is no
difference between those "who
have" and "those who seem to
have - II ic fbic lact or0IIn that
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

A railroad car was kept in hyS-
terics Saturday by the antics of
two irish steel workers, en- route
home from the Labor Day holiday
as one tried to explain to the
other, the difference in the Day.
light Saving time and the Standard
time. 1t was a case of I M Dumb,
showing his pal, Mr.. U r. Dumber
what was what-and when they
finished. neither knew what the
other was talking about. And they
pUnctuated each oath-studded ex-
planation with a swig of barley
corn, which further looSened up
their thick brogue.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14
TO GIVE AWAY BOOK COVERS

CHICAGC+(A N P)-More than
100000 red and white book covers
have been purchased by the Su-
preme Liberty Life Insurance com-
pany and are to be distributed free
to colored school children through
out the company's nine operating
states.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

Always good for good story,
Judge Almond Scott, Edward Ar
mold, Sr., regaled your correspond
ent with stories of the good old
days. The judge was giving the
"B. Cabinet" going over in a
most inimitable way. From the
smallest Big un to the Biggest Big
un, he guawed over the importance
assumed by their positions. Well,
the judge can get away with it.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

THE WHIPPING POST: In
this democracy. and in the very
capital Of this democracy, right at
the entrance to the city, the Union
station, there is strong sentiment
among the white cab drivers, Cthe
only ones permitted to enter the
station driveway, to ta) be dis
courteous to colored passengers
when they accept them, and (b) tc
not accept them to all Coloree
taxis are not permitted to enter
the sacred driveway, except to dis.
charge passengers and steal anoth-
er fare, if they can. But white
drivers refuse colored fares know
ingly and openly violating princi
Piles they ask colored men to fight
for.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

Nope, Harlem amt the same
no more. Lots Of new faces in old
spots. But the exuberant Ed Lew
is, maker of those cOl0red movie
shorts, as gay as ever. Just about
CONSUMPTION, which seems to wor-
ry most New Workers, accustomed
as theE are to relief and the
glOrified dole. ...
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

We saw DIR. Adams a few weeks
back-and he seemed to me the
same person physically he was
when he talked with him at the
dedication of the new dOrmitOry
at Howard. Quiet. reserved, will
ing to talk when he was sure of
two things, his topic and his lis
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14
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ANp AVIATION EpITon

THE SPLENDID opportunities for
aeronautical engineers and me-
chanics should not be overlooked
by airminded Negro youth. Like
our fairer counterparts, we are
more inclined toward seeking the
more glamorous activities attend
ant upon actual flying; in fact, we
think of all aviation as aerial &C
tivity. When consideration is given
the skilled workers in the aviation
industry, together with the ground
crews at the service bases, At men
are required to put one military
plane and pilot in the air; five are
needed to keep that plane and pilot
aloft during maneuvers or wartime
operations.
Youth are interested in aero en-.
gineering need not be discouraged
by the difficulty we mentioned two
weeks ago concerning the Paul
Williams case at the Hawai- Air
craft factory. Paul is making a
living, and a good one-without the
navy's help.
To mention only a few of the
important ground jobs, we suggest
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14
EDITORIALS

political party
regardless
mpartay hatred
All matter coming to this should be in office Sun
p. M.
plainly written side
copy
safety unless the
paid for.
INDEX, 1914 Monroe
Street Ali articles must signed by contributors Or they
n be
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
broke into a fine game of football
for us the other night. We were
afraid the announcer was going to
leave Kenny Washington holding
the ball, when they switched over
to the secretary's speech of accep-
tance. But Kenny beat them to it
and got across to the satisfaction
of all listening.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

The next on your writer's
program Is tie AME Annual
Conference. The writer expects
to cover everyone of them to
give a complete detail of them
all.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

Renewing old acquaintances in
the Harlem Y Saturday was sort
of homecoming event. In the bar
ber shop land where else could you
have a better spot for an argu-
ment?) Ben Coleman. member of
the state welfare department. Milf
film Gibbs, vice grand basileus of
Omega fraternity; B. j. Barnett,
employment secretary of the Y and
sundry other little shots" shooting
questions at your correspondent
about Washington. In other words,
three Wilikie men to two Roosevelt
adherents. A wnrm time was had
by all and how Phillips, the tom
sorial artist nearly got my ears
with his shears at one time.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14
By WALTER r. CHTVERS
Professor of Sociology
MOrehOuSe College

SOUR GRAPES, SOME will say because the
writer belongs to the have nots' To those who will
react to this column by crying "sour grapes' the
writer declares that even Sour Grapes have their
virtues and uses, therefore, the philosophy OF this
column has place in the study of racial philoso-
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

tener. Howard loses one of its
best, a man who made enemies in
doing what he thought was the
right thing.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

consideration of airplane and en-
gine mechanic, instrument techni-
clan, aircraft metal worker, aircraft
welder, aero draughtsman, and ma.
chinist. These are the jobs open
today, and the demand is so acute
in the industry that we believe
Negro youth could find ready EN-
ployment, and at good wages.
We were surprised what the pub
lie relations man of one of the
largest aircraft concerns told us
that they had not seriously thought
about Negro workers because none
had ever applied. Whether or not
either factories would hire quali-
fled Negro workers is conjectural.
Less certain, however, is the fact
that all plants are requiring def
mite proof of American citizenship
of all applicants. Here is one in
stance when we shall be taken on
face value.
The mechanical trades and spe-
cialties are best obtained at voca..
tional or trade schools. although
many public schools now offer avi.
ation electives, More than 10000
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

MIR. Cox says while was
driving so fast l must have re-
membcred he was still i'm the
business. He said he was wait
ing, just in case.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14
By AL WHITE

WASHINGTON, D. CLAMP
Unoficially, summer ended WIN
Labor Day and as the boys used to
saw in the hotels way back When,
IF YOU haven't got it now, it's too
bad" P.S. We amt got it.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

On my way back from the
No e.ii 1 met some good old
southern hospitality in Sweet
water, Tennessee. My car went
bad on the road and would only
go about six miles per hour. A
white mechanic on IT,, road who
lived in Sweetwater, Tenn,
about eighteen miles away
traiIed me in his car and in
Sweetwater about midnight he
tried about three hours to get
it going, but he failed. After he
gave up 1 asked him the charges
to which he said, mot a penny,
as / did not fix it," The night
policeman saw my plight and
went around the town until he
found me a mechanic and he
fixed it for, me and rel led to
take a penny as he said his job
was a make-shift to get -.le back
to Atlanta. Now if that is not
southern hospitality, I'll eat my
hat.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14
Whdt SAk1i1f
Auburn
l6I.l.P: REYNOLDS
X;kkaI : ! !
Back Home Again
To My Readers

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
BACK FROM MY vacation and
ready to go to work. 1t was fine
lime I had meeting friends over
the country. I'll have to Tell my
readers more about it in later
issue of my column.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

BY the way, your writer has the
Hay Fever and will be somewhat
feeble until tl<- frost falls. Column
short today. I'll ge, going next week.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

Washingtonians are trekking
back homeward from various
parts of the country with tales of
this. that and the other.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

Saw Ed Hurt and Pinky Clarke
in Harlem. Ed Is the coach at
Morgan who hold some sparkling
records as a coach at that institu-
tion-and Clarke is former
basketball luminary at the same
institution. Ed was attending a
football school in New York.
The passing of Senator Lundeen
in that aifplane crash was start
lignly sorry end for a man who had
fought the removed of the CAA to
the department in which it is now
located. He had strongly advo-
Gated an independent bureau for
aeroplanes and had voted againss
the consolidation of the CAA with
the department of interior.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

Insiders seem to think that DR.
Johnson has the inside on the late
Numa P. G.. Adams position as
dean of the Howard Medical school.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

To my readers barring a little
car trouble, 1 really had good
time, and again I say I'll tell you
all about it next Sunday as 1 am
one tired man.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

Hotel Theresa manager, Walter
Scott. reporting that for the fourth
successive week, a complete sellout
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

A large number of Negroes will
lose their jobs when the Worlds
Fair closes in New York in the Oc-
tober date set for closing. And the
signs seem so gloomy-"Now or
Never, closing forever"
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14

That all is not kosher with the
mixed bouts here is being revealed
by local writer's who have talked
with some of the cOlored lads
featured on various bills. Afte:
all, that's boxing and again, this is
Washington, so what could you ex-
pect?
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-14
CAPITOL COMMENTS

in his house Whar'S the money
coming from, we wonder?
A group of Washingtonians max
ing merry in the hotel cafe (bar
room to YOU'D, Most of them news
paper men, no less.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-05
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-05

enough terms with clothes brush. She whisks bits of hair and dust off the shoulders and the front of her dress with her gloves but does mt do anything at all about the back. And lots fo them never sus- pect that felt hat needs brushing. The man who issues this complaint would like to see women keep clothes brushes in hall closets and desk drawers as well as in the bedroom.
 Lipstick is fine and dandy on the mouth. Its anything but pleasant on the teeth, napkins, rims of glasses and back of gloves. (This is re- hinder always to blot lips with cleansing tissues after application of lipstick)
 Unpublished leather shoes and un- brushed suede ones are women's most prevalent sins against good grooming.
 Sloppy grooming. A blouse button off, 8 broken seam, a ripped skirt hem dangling, a blouse collar half inside, half outside the jacket-such things as these make the boys grit their teeth.
 Nagging women annoy a lot more men besides the poor guy who's re- ceiving it. One chap said that when he visits friends and hears the wife sniping at her spouse, he feels like crowning her for doing it-and the husband for taking it.
 NO ONE LIKES A SOURPUSS
 Altogether too many women walk around with almost bad-tempered expressions on their faces. You don't need to be constant grinner, but you could manage to look content if not actually pleased.
 A number of males at nearby desks had much to say about sour- puss and dead-pan faces. They would have us look alive-really pleasantly, good naturedly so.
 There you are girls-"a word, to the wives
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-05
Of Interest To Women

Have you household problem
 to solve? Write your question
 clearly, sign your name and ad-
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 stamp and mail to The W0man's
 Editor, Washington Service Bu-
 reau, The Democrat, 1913 18th
 Street, Washington, D. C., for 8
 personal reply.
 o. What can be added to water to intensity the color of beets or red cabbage?
 A. Add one teaspoon of vinegar to each pint of cooking water.
 o. I am a beauty operator and wish to place advertising circulars in the mail boxes in the area in which I live. The mail carrier told me it was against the law and that I must pay postage. Is this true?
 A. Yes. According to postal laws and regulations you cannot place anything but mail matter on which postage has been paid in a mail box. Ask your local postmaster for regulations. about putting circulars in mail-boxeS.
 o. I married an alien in June, 1922, and was recently told that I lost my United States citizenship by doing so. Is this true? I have lived in the United States all my life and have never been out of the country. My husband became a citizen in 1925. Would not that fact make me a citizen?
 A. Women took the citizenship status of their husbands up to Sep tember p, 1922. You can regain your citizenship by applying for repatriation, which consists of talk ing the oath of allegiance and pay ing one dollar in a United States court of record or at the naturaliza- tion office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-05
GIoritying Yourself
By ALICIA HART

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 The complaints and comments of the men in the office make the beauty column for today. Here's what they have to say:
 No woman is beautiful if she is late. The later she is the less at tractive she looks when she finally arrives. (This from a man who is tired of having all the women he knows always late-and arriving a bit harried-looking-for their ap- pointments.
 OUGHT TO BRUSH UP ON THESE
 The average woman isn't on good
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-05

What odd creatures we often are in dreams, seemingly 50 unlike our real selves.
 A fastidious, modest young woman dreams of having sticky mud on her hands, or of walking half-dressed on public street, or of taking "joy ride" in car out of control.
 But even your most curious dreams are always you. Psycholo- gistS have found that they are symbolic messages from your sub- conscious mind which, when rightly understood, may warn of many 8 hidden problem affecting your life.
 Sticky mud in dream is likely to be symbol of some unpleas- ant thought or experience you've tried to ignore. Dreaming of be- ing half-nude implies you may be obsessed by a feeling of insecur- ity in your social life, a fear that you may reveal something dis creditable to you. A car out of control hints you are taking a course you secretly feel is un- wise.
 Other images which may appear in your dreams are burning house, an express train, a church.
 The real meanings of these and other typical dream symbols are explained by a well-known psy- chologist in our 32-page booklet. Helps you read your own dreams, understand your inner self. Tells why some dreams come true.
 Send 10c in coin for your copy of THE MEANING OF DREAMS to Waterbury Democrat Home Serv- ice, 635 Sixth Ave, New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your NAME, ADDRESS, and the NAME of booklet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-05
BE NATURAL? BUNK! SAYS BETTE DAVIS
Dromotize Your Bad
 Features, She Urges

self and you will get along all right"
 Bette Davis thinks you had better be an actress, and darn good one. That means, first of all, improving your voice, SO that it not only is pleasant to her, but can, by subtle infection, say what you want 1t to say.
 She thinks 1t is a crime the way so many women go through life with ugly, raSping, high-pltched voices. She knows it isn't necessary, for she once had such high, weak voice her friends told Ter she was crazy to talk about being an actress.
 She also thinks you can't just ignore bad feature or hope to hide it. The only thing to do with 8 poor feature" she claims, '.is to dramatize it so that it be- comes part and parcel of your individuality" KEEP YOUR REACTIONS
 'IN CHARACTER"
 She thinks you have to be bold about your defects. For instance. she has to wear glasses. Well, for a while she tried wearing fancy glasses, and then decided that was silly, that you couldn't make glasses really becoming and that you might as well go in for the old-fashioned shell-rimmed specs that at least are honey and honest looking.
 And she is sure that to be a successful woman you must know how to look interested and gay when you are dead tired and dis couraged; that you will often have to look more prosperous and suc- cessful than you feel; and that if you aren't to give the impression of a confused personality, you will have to keep your reactions and respons- eS "in character"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-05
Household Hints
Every Woman Must Be
 Actress, Star Advises
BY RUTH MILLETT

I'm shocked. I'm stunned. just called on movie star and there wasn't single long -stemmed red rose in her hotel suite.
 Not only that, an odd mixture of ten-year-old Scottie, a big shiny pumpkin carved into sneering Jack-O-Lantern, and several over size jugs of sweet cider turned the iSwanky suite into a nice, livable, homelike sort of place.
 And the star was dressed as simply as college girl. Not the kind of elegantly simple dress on which a hunk of diamond and emerald jewlry looks right at home.
 No, Bette Davis was wearing little blue wool dress whose only ornament was one of those patriotic pins, the kind you bought last month for dollar.
 And she didn't give an inter view" weighing every word cau- tiously. She jumped headlong into the conversation and turned the in- terview mot "bull session" BETTE DAVIS KNOWS
 YOU PRETTY WELL
 We talked about YOU. That is in itself astonishing for when one talks to an actress one usually talks about her and her latest picture which in the case of Miss Davis, I later found out, is "The Letter" Bette Davis seems to know you pretty well. She says, for in- stance, that she is convinced most women spend more hours from 16 to 50 worrying about their looks and the use they are making of them than about anything else.
 She thinks that is as it should be. For she says Bunk" to the advice so often given women = "Just be natural Just be your