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RUMORS:
Believe or Not

There was increasing talk-de
spite denials-about Neville Cham
berlain rising from the political
grave, as possible peace-maker.
The great "appeaser" was still pop
ular in conservative British circles,
which did not altogether trust Pre-
mier-dictator Churchill and his to-
talitarian setup. Chamberlain has
been better liked by the Germans
than Churchill, and the rumor-mon-
gers said Neville might be able to
turn the peace trick, without in
curing too much expense. The
trade-unions disliked the umbrella
bearer" but old England is well
over half female in population, and
the ladies additionally have pre-
ferred Chambers" to Church. I"
They swing very heavy, organized
feminine vote. One critic observed
that the far-fung dominions of the
seven seas seemed more bellicose
than the British Isles proper. The
anti-French element in England, al
ways strong, was pointing finger,
tipped with gall, at the 'back-stab-
bling" Gallics across the narrow
channel. In New York, opinion in
Dictated some sort of peace by, at
very latest, mid-August or Septem-
Der 1. AS you know, your common
tator likes to sidestep predictions.
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want to stop air attacks before they
reach Washington or Oregon"
Governor Gruening called atten-
ton to awakened federal interest in
Alaska's defenses. Last fall the
navy began work on two new bases
at Sitka and Kodiak.
A $4,00O,0 900 army air training base
is under construction at Fairbanks
in the interior, and $4,000, 900 ha,
been appropriated for an air base
Anchorage. The first contingent o
ground troops left Seattle for An
chorage.
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iii RUSSIAN WAR:
BeSSardbia, etc.

This so-called World war is pc
culiar affair-a war of in-and-outers.
Russia, for instance, is always pop
ping in and out of it. One never
knows where she is. For example,
the Soviets popped into the latter
stages of the Polish campaign last
September, and took most of the
eastern half of what they used to
call "Polonia Restituta." Then, at
the beginning of December, and
thereafter, Russia popped in again,
and fought the Films, picking up
Finland's second city of Viborg (Vi-
ipurD, the Finnish Mannerheim line
and other bases and odd bits. Also,
on and off, Russia has virtually an
nexed the three little Baltic states
of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia,
which used to belong to the car
and his navy, prior to 1917.
Then came another Russian
putsch, quite impersonal, like the
others. This time it was Rumania,
which had grabbed off Russian
province called Bessarabia, in 1918.
The Soviets took it back, and also
took handy bases at the mouth OF
the river Danube, and on the stra-
tegic Black sea coast. Comic King
Carol, playboy of the western world,
appealed to Germany and Italy as
a matter of course, then took the
Russians rather calmly. Rumania
also lowed" territory to Hungary
and Bulgaria (from 1919, and has
treated her racial and religious mi
norities badly. Nobody wept much
over comic King Carol, and his Mer-
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n A M ES
in the netUS

At its thirty-sixth annual conven-
ton in Chicago, the Advertising Fed
GRAFTON of America selected as pres
ident Elon G. Borton, advertising
director of La Sale Extension uni
versity, Chicago.
Mrs. Wendell Wilkes. maiden
name was Wilk. She. comes: from
Indiana, too. To match that, Mrs.
Franklin Roosevelt was a Roosevelt,
before her marriage -, ::
Col. Thurston Hughes, U. S. A.,
was announced by the war depart
ment as chief of defense of the
American Panama Canal Zone. The
colonel has been adjutant general
of the Panama canal department.
He succeeds Gen. Jacob Devers, U.
S. A.
DR.. Wilhelm Stekel, once DR..
Freud's No. l psychoanalyst, an
other exile, died at IA, in London.
DR.. Freud, in exile, had died pre-
viously, in England. Stekel was
strongly anti-dictatorial and an ex-
pert on sadists (Nazis?) and maso-
chists (Fascists?).
England, the last refuge for roy
atty, got more of them, to add to
Ethiopian, Morse, Dutch, Luxembur-
ger, and other crowned heads. The
latest arrivals included King Fog of
Albania, plus his half-Yankee wife,
his infant son, and his three sisters.
IL, l.
fore he. pulled the ermine over
his ears in 1928.
Col. L. B. Magruder, U. S. A.,
said that the American army had
been increased by 43 per cent in the
last 10 months. He expected an i'm
mediate increase of lbs per cent.
That was good news.
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TASTY TRIPLES:
HySteria

A Wyoming crowd showed the cur.
rent hysteria. They tarred and feath-
cred a member of a harmless re-
ligious sect, who had been distribut-
ing pacifist literature, and who was
against compulsory f1ag-saluting.
The poor fellow did not know how
to salute the fiag-and accidentally
gave what looked like Nazi salute.
OF course, as a pacifst, he detested
Nazis. Nevertheless, he was dan
gerous fifth-columnar.
Boston school children can split
their infinitives to suit themselves,
according to sensible proposal by
a school committeeman, named Joe
Lee. There really is no such thing
as correct English spelling, pronun-
citation, or punctuation, as George
Washington was forever pointing
out. Language, obviously, is tool,
and not musical instrument" as
one linguistic cynic put it.
It was 5000 airplane engines for
England, to 5000 for America, that
revolted Henry Ford, although it did
not seem to revolt Secretary Nor
genthau.
At the Brooklyn navy yard, the
first American 45,G00-ton battleship
was begun. There was no public
fuss about it-but this will set a
new high in world warships, and
perhaps it will be completely out
dated by aerial warfare. England s
AZ, 000-tonners have been tops, in
size, to date.
The borough of Queens, N. Y. c.,
got two-cent postal rate, instead
of the old three-cent. Queens is
singularly home-minded, and this
was much bigger apples to local
boys and girls, than the potential
fall Of London.
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ty passengers were aboard.
ut is hard these days to separate
commercial air expansion from air
Defense" declared the Alaskan gov
ernor.
He expressed hope that a hundred
air fields would be constructed in
Alaska, chiefly for defense"
"We spent $500, 10000 on the is
land of Oahu, Hawaii" he added,
"yet possible enemies of the United
States are closer to Alaska. We
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA. = After
flying northward on the first pay
passenger airline link between the
states and Alaska, Gov. Ernest Cru
ening hailed the new service as a
stride in national defense.
The 20-ton Alaska Clipper, operat-
ed by a Pan American subsidiary,
Pacific Alaska anyways, flew here
from Seattle in slightly more than
five hours over a route that has
required four days by boat. TWEEN
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THREATS & THRUSTS:
Might of Mars

England was threatened by Ger
many. Rumania was more than
threatened by Russia, and also by
Bulgaria and Hungary. French
Indo-China was threatened by
Japan. French Morocco was threat
ened by Spanish Morocco. British
Malta was threatened by Italy. Mar
shall Petain was threatened by Win
ston Churchill. Uruguay was
threatened by some Nazis. London
threatened to conscript the humble
Hindus. Hindu revolt threatened
London. The French navy threat
ened to join England, to join Ger
many, to commit suicide. The
southern Irish threatened the north
ern Irish, or vice versa. The Chi
nese threatened to make peace,
and threatened to 60 on fighting.
The so-called fifth column threat
ened America ESQ they said)-then
subdivided into campaign Republi-
cans and campaign Democrats, who
threatened one another.
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INDUSTRY:
Change of Pace

Current reports of Federal Re-
serve banks plus other commercial
induces reveal that a downward
trend of industrial activity which
has marked U. S. business since last
December has now been reversed.
Expanding production is noted in
many key industries.
Steel production is now booming
along at capacity speeds and new
orders from foreign and domestic
buyers which are currently pour
ing in should keep blast furnaces
roaring for many months to come.
Automobile tire shipments have
shown large increases and leading
rubber companies say these more
than Offset a seasonal decline in
sales to car manufacturers.
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what a nice man that was! He
was so complimentary about my
complexion"
"He ought to be-he sold it to
you"
Up to the Job

Up to the Job
"Can you do double entry?" the
employer asked the candidate for
the post of bookkeeper.
eyes, SIR" was the reply, "and
triple entry, too"
triple entry?"
eyes. One entry for you show
ing the real profits, another entry
for your sleeping partner showing
small profits, and a third for the
income tax people showing a def
mite loSS.''
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Just in the Clubs

Just in the Clubs
Golfer-Have you noticed any
improvement since last year?
Caddy-Had your clubs shined
up, haven't you, sir?
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G.B.S. aQQeQ tnat ne WlSneQ ne was
prime minister, in order to deal
with the French in proper style.
When he was asked why he didn't
talk more these days, he limited del
icately that the U. K. police wouldn't
let him. This appeared more than
probable.
Mr.. BaIbO
In the hot summer days of 1888,
your commentator stood on a Hud-
son river pier, and watched an Ital-
ian aerial squadron form and re-
form over his head. The squad was
en- route for the big doings at Chi
cago. 1t had flown in from "far-
away" Europe, amid great eclat. At
its head was glamorous, bearded
figure, Gen. Italo Balbo. Balbo, the
great airman, was the No. 2 Fascist,
after Mussolini. He had marched
on Rome, and helped put Benito in
power, in 1922.
Balbo's American flight made him
too popular in Italy. There was
only room for one man on the stage.
So Mussolini sidetracked Italo to
govern African Libya, where that
tough gentleman did a good job. He
stayed there seven full years, and
built up it's ornaments, and threat
ened England's Egypt. Then the
| great airman was killed, out there,
in bidding airplane accident. Mus
solini (perhaps) breathed easier.
WILLKIE:
McNary
The Republicans met at Philadel-
phia and nominated liberal, able
Wendell Willkie on the sixth ballot.
The chief rivals to Willkie were
Dewey and Taft The Vikings
finally outvoted the Dewbirds and
Taftisti, amid a rather acrimonious
row.
Moreover, Willkie did not differ
much from Roosevelt on matters of
foreign policy. The Republicans had
adopted an elaborate peace" plank
in their platform, but Wilkes ear
| lier war utterances did not check
with it. 1t looked perhaps as though
the Republican party watchdogs
would have to watch Willkie.
Sen. Charles McNary of Oregon,
farm progressive, got the Republi-
can vice presidential nomination. It
appeared that, somehow, many in
terventionists had attended the Re-
publican convention, to cheer for
Willkie, when logically they should
be cheering for Roosevelt: for
"peace" is the Republican issue,
this time, of most significance.
F. ID. K. e w. w.
Roosevelt was late to a press con-
ference, and apologized by saying
that somebody had turned off his
elevators electric power, and he
hoped it didn't stem from Philadel-
phia-a crack at public-utility Will
kie. Then Roosevelt said he would
like to talk over foreign affairs with
Willkie. The wary, willy Willkie re-
piled that he would be delighted to
discuss national defense with Roose-
velt-if that was what Roosevelt
meant by foreign affairs" 81
think one should be most courteous
to bis. predecessor" said warrior
WillSts,. WHO can be an extremely
mean :talket. That meant that the
1940 campaign, was. on-with a
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Russian Drive Into Rumania
Alters European War Picture;
COP. Picks Willkie, McNary

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions expressed these columns they
Release by este Newsp
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EnthrOned Hero

The muse does not allow the
praise-deserving hero to die; she
enthrones him in the heavens
Horace.
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DAIRY FARM

Statistics reveal that hundreds
of thousands in this country have
telephones, but no bathtubs. What
then, are they caught in when the
phone rings?
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Money talks, but it never gives
itself away!
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How It's Done

HOW II 5 DUnt
"HoO do you afford such long hoL-
days?"
Easy. One month on the sands and
II months on the rocks"
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G.B.S. added that he wished he was
prime minister, in order to deal
with the French in proper style.
When he was asked why he didn't
talk more these days, he limited del
icately that the U. K. police wouldn't
let him. This appeared more than
probable.
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27
Negroes Attend Bank
head Rites To Get A
Glimpse OF Roosevelt

man Arthur w. Mitchell, the Demo-
cratic incumbent, and former State
Senator William E. King, Republican
spirant, for the honor or representing
the LIST District at Washington.
Both candidates have strong back
ing and stand high in their respective
parties. Mitchell is known as an ad-
man and staunch supper
ter of Roosevelt and the New Deal
nd came near heading up the Western
division of his party's campaign set
up among negroes. King is now a
dominant power in the Wendell Will
kie campaign and when the G. o. P.
standard bearer delivered his first
speech to Negroes in Chicago a t
week, he began and ended with a plea
for the election of King to congress.
Mitchell has held office since 1884
and is counting strongly upon the re-
lief and regular machine vote to con
tinue him in office. He is also due to
have the support of William L. Daw-
son, now a Democratic committeeman
Continued on page Three
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27

NEW YORK The amendment to the
Consumption Bill, recently passed by
me Senate and the House, providing for
he inclusion of Negroes in all branches
Of the federal armed forces, was said
by high Democratic official this week
to have been the brainchild of Presiden>
Roosevelt rather than of its sponsor.
Senator Robert F. Wagner OF New York.
This inside story was gwen out At
National Democratic Campaign Head
quarters, in the Hotel Baltimore. bv a
man who long hiss enjoyed the trust and
confidence of Edward ]. Flynn. the
party national chairman. According 70
this official, the amendment to the
Consumption Bill was the FULFILL
MENT of promise made by the Presi-
cent last year to the Pittsburgh publisher
Robert L. Vann. Senator Wagner who
has served as White House spokesman
IL Congress on several occasions, was
enlisted to introduce the measure.
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27
Expect Congress To
Adjourn October First
Still No Anti Lynch
ACTION

| WASHINGTON, Sept. 80 CAMP
with the major business of this ses
ion disposed, of congress stands read,
to adjourn, if it can, on Oct. l. A
irecord for peace-time appropriations
with figure set at SIS, 100000 marks
this as one of the most "liberal" con.
crosses in history.
Yet Legislation against lynching, to
outlaw the great American National
crime, was not considered important
enough to reach the loor of the
United States Senate, although there
had been some sort of understanding
or promise made whereby the anti
lynch b i'll would get consideration
during this session.
Passed by the house after the most
narrowing debates and harassing of
witnesses at public hearings, the bill
had the approval of the majority of
the house members, excepting those
from the Solid South, who saw in it
an effort on the part of the northern
members to use the bill as a vote get
ting football, and so expressed them
selves on the floor.
But it was in the Senate that the
most difficulty was experienced, where
some 80 members of that body were
up for reelection and couldn't afford
Ito have their opinions spread on the
Congressional Record for public in
|spection. Their opposition to the bill
was open and hostility to the mea-
sure expressed itself in determinations
and denials of statements.
Declaring that the vote was not as
urgent on this measure in an election
ear, as was the vote on the emer-
yency ma ional defense, senators
ought refuge behind the latter to
ill any hopes of the former, despite
he fine work which had been done
in getting various congressman to su-
pport the measure.
So the bill goes over for another
congress where the hope is the re-
moval of an election year will give it
better chance to pass.
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27
ISAAC HATHAWAY HEAD
OF ART AND ERANIC
DEPARTMENT TUSKECEE

TELLS OF OPPORTUNITIES IN FIELD
NEW YORK, Sept CBy Cleveland G..
Allen for AMP Prof Isaac Hathaway,
head of the art and ceramic department
az Tuskegee institute, last week told CT
the opportunities that are offered in
this field for those who make study
Of this subject. This department. said
Prof. Hathaway, which is training stu
dents and teachers in the science of
pottery making is becoming one of tha
most popular courses at Tuskegee. He
said that DR.. Patterson, president OF
Tuskegee was extremely interested in
the development of the department,
which is making it possible for the
scientific use of the raw materials 10
serve the need of of Tuskegee in every
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27
EXPECT CONGRESS TO ADJOURN OCTOBER FIRST
Many C0lored Attend Funeral Rites
Says Mississippi
State Constitution
Was " rl,ten 10
GUARANTEE WHITE SUPRE.
MACY"

| JACKSON, Miss, Sept CAMP
A statement last Saturday by former
Governor Hugh White, that repeal OF
the poll tax would turn the State back
into the dangerous conditions of the
carpet-bagger days by permitting ne
groes to vote, has resulted in spirit
| ed discussion by friends of both the
former governor and U. S. Senator
Bilbo who also favors the poll tax
repeal.
Many declared that Whites state
ment was groundless, as every school
boy knows the constitution was so
written to guarantee white suprema-
~ whether poll tax is in force or
not.
Explaining how the poll tax works.
and reciting the legs al safeguards
rected to assure white supremacy, the
Daily Clarion Ledger, last Tuesday
declared:
AS far as the poll tax is concerned,
Negroes just 81 years old and Ne
groes past 60 years old would now be
privileged to vote without poll tax
payments except for other prohibitive
provisions now set up in the state
constitution which was drawn up in
1890.
Any Negro offering to vote must
'irst interpret the Mississippi consti-
tuition before any circuit clerk in the
counties, to the satisfaction of both
the circuit clerk and the county DEM
ocratic executive committee.
And besides, If there were suffici
ent Negroes meeting this qualifica-
ton to elect a member to office. the
Negro nominated could not be seated
because the constitution provides that
Continued on page Two)
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27
JASPER, Ala, Sept. - (By Emory
0. jackson for AMP

Mixed with the thousands of home
and guest citizens here Tuesday to
pay final earthly honor to Speaker
William B. Bankhead were humble
Negroes who, although loving the H.
lustrious statesman of Alabama, had
their eyes aimed at seeing President
Roosevelt who headed the mourning
delegation of dignitaries.
Have you seen him ?" (meaning
Roosevelt) queried many of the SIM
pie folks who knew that the First
Citizen of America was riding down
and they went to see him.
1t was sweltering hot and the COL
ored people were sprinkled among the
flowing and static crowds along the
streets. Nobody bothered them and
they bothered nobody.
The special train bearing the body
of Speaker Bankhead moved in to
this rural town almost two hours a
head of the Presidents special. The
body of the deceased Alabama states
man was placed in state at the First
Continued on page Two
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27
Negro On Draft
Board
MINNESOTA NAMES NEGRO TO
DRAFT BOARD

WASHINGTON, Sept. 49, CAMP
The first Negro to be appointed to a
state draft registration board is S.
Hall, prominent business man of st.
Paul, Mimi, and nephew of Charles
Hall, former statistician in the de-
partment of census.
Mr.. Halls appointment came through
Gov. Harold E. Stassen, youthful and
progressive Republican governor of
Minnesota. According to information,
there are about 1000 colored men in
the state who will be required to re-
gister and Of this number only go
will be chosen for service in the first
draft group.
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27

A Home Paper with . tsom.
Editor: That Tells the tat.
News Weekly.
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27
|Governor Lehman
Praises Harlem's
Famous 369th
Regiment
PRAISES 369TH REGIMENT

PRAISES 369TH REGIMENT
PEEKSKILL, NY, Sept q amp A
feature of last Sundays celebration of
Governors day at Camp Smith was the
appearance in the parade of Harlem's
famous 369th Coast Artillery. About
10000 visitors, including several thousand
Harlemites, applauded as the 1,250
guardsmen led by Colonel Benjamin
O. Davis passed in review before Gov
ernor Herbert H. Lehman.
Later, at a reception, Gov. Lehman
was presented to Col. Davis and staff,
and he expressed his pleasure in hearing
of the great progress the unit was max
ing since its conversion from infantry
regiment to an anti aircraft unit. He
also praised the drill efficiency displayed
by the command.
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27
MR.. ED.

Well, Mr.. Ed, you know I des beer
thinking bout de radeo and de news
| papers bout how much dey is worth
to de folks. Now de radeo is a pirty
good thing to have. Now, yo' can
hear peoples talking and singing all
over de world and bout can't yo' Mr..
Ed? Now, yo' know Mr.. Ed, o.
course de radeo is fine, but l ruther
have de paper. Cause, when de ra-
dec gives de news it des gives it to
yo', don't stoppin' and if yo' have
yore mind plumb emty yo' can't hold
all O. dat at once, can yo' Mr.. Ed?
Cause yo' have to lett it go on till
it gifts through with it don't yo' wont
git it all, will yo' Mr. Ed?
Now when de paper tells yo' de
news yo' can stop readin and think
den read it some more can't yo' Mr..
Ed? Now, think dat is de thing to
think bout what yo' read. So | ru-
ther have de radeo fo' de singing.
Now, Mr.. Ed, amt de government
funny. Now, when yo' go to de jim
dey says yo' amt got enough cotton
but when dey go to you field dey says
yo' got too much cotton, don't dey,
Mr.. Ed?
Yers truly,
"Mr Craanu
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27
way possible.

way PoSolplS.
The department of ceramics was es-
tablished three years ago at Tuskegee
end is offering new vocation. He said
that great many teachers are making
a study of the subject, which they find
a fine market He showed several Of
the articles that had been made by his
students, as well as pictures of classes
useful in their work Some Of the useful
nd valuable tnings that students are
taught to make in the department are
cups saucers vases, plates, buttons,
toys, and other articles which supply
of students at work Prof. Hathaway
has had wide experience in this field,
and is an accomplished sculptor and
artist.
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27
New Grocery To
Open Saturday

The new and up to date grocery store
at sol 18th Avenue will have its initial
opening Saturday morning, 500 o'clock.
The first 100 persons entering the store
and making purchase in the amount
of $100 WILL receive free gifts. Persons
who purchase sa much as S10O will
have option on first class MERCHANDISE
BELOW COST.
Don't fail to visit THE PEOPLES
CASH GROCERY and register There
will be courteous clerks to serve you.
Carl Smith and Walter Block, Jr. Mgrs
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27

Club

Installation services for the officers
OF the Haven-Rust Club were held
Sunday, September 22nd f n m the
New Hope Baptist Church at 800 o.
clock DR.. L. F. Brooks was re-
elected president, together with his
staff of officers.
The weekly echo., 1940-09-27
Chicago Eyes
Bitter Fight
Between King
and Mitchell

Chicago, Sept. = (AN-P) Both sides
are gi' ding for hard and bitter
political fight between now and the
November election between Congress-