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The Phoenix index., 1940-12-21
WALTER CH|VERS SAYS:

radio appearance. For them there
are Sizable salaries in coaching,
professional football, the movies,
signing cigarette advertisements.
For the Negro heroes of the grid
iron, what next?
In most cases the answer is rela-
tive oblivion There is no profess
SIGNAL football for them, the posi-
BILE coaching jobs are dependent
upon graduate training in physical
education and their signatures
have no value for the advertisers.
Their educational efficiency is
so impaired until only the chosen
few will get enough out of four
years in college to prepare them
for earning a livelihood in world
becoming more and more insistent
upon youth trained to the highest
efficiency for the jobs it wants
done.
The world into which Negro
youth must enter is showing in
creasing hostility towards his en-
plOyment efforts. For proof of this
statement visit the employment Of
fices of any large city. This world
respects and remunerates the most
thorough intellectual development.
MUST BE SUPERIOR
The Negro boy must be superior
to the white boy in any identical
job situation Generally he faces
the fate of most current minority
racial group members. The ordina-
ry avenues traditionally open for
earning a living are being closed to
minority racial groups.
This is due to large scale unem-
ployment and graduation of white
youths making it necessary for Che
white custodians of employment to
hire the white youth. There is
something fundamental and bright
ening in the fact that blood is
thicker than water
If Negroes are to survive on a
scale OF living above the starvation
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+ BETWEEN THE LINES +

as If we are trying to get down
on both sides of the fence Or that
we are trying to blow hot and Coz
at the same time.
What Uncle Sam needs now is
the cooperation of ten-tenths of our
population; for in the last analysis
victory is a ten-tenths proposi-
ton! The "less-than ten-tenths pa-
tions' are going to perish and only
the tententh nations will survive.
The Negroes of this country rough
ly constitute one-tenti of the popu-
lation. IL every emergency this
nation has faced sagacious Negro
leadership has pointed out to the
Negro his duty in the premise, and
the Negro has followed grandly the
colors of his country, super pa
triot and devotee of the American
way cf life.
KNOCKING AT DOOR
Today, as in times past, the Ne
gro is knocking at Uncle Sam:
door IN an effort to offer his life
and service to his country. Tnat
the Negro should be in any way
denied and retuffed in this glori lis
adventure seems tragic. Uncle Sam
should bear in mind that the Ne
gro is not knocking at the doc"
of the white mans parlor so sa-
credly gcarded those many gener'.
tions; the Negro is not trying tc
rush" segregation lines so stub
bornly strung nation over; ths
Negro is not trying even to heve
settled, here and now, in the face
of a crisis, all the wrongs and in
justices suffered so severely and so
long.
The Negroes are seeking the op-
portunity to defend his threatened
native land. Whether dear Uncle
Sam realizes it or not. he is going
to need everything the white man
has and everything th% 1egro has
bef"re order is restored in this
world.
In other words, when Uncle Sam
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-21
BY ROBERT M. RADCLIFFE

THE BRIDE, SHE LOOKED
good enough to eat More than
one eligible gent had asked the priv
ilege of changing her last name,
She was just that cute and sweet
She seemed nervous, and one OF
her friends declared he saw a tear
streaking down her lovely cheek.
There she was, all done up in veil
and gown, walking around looking
at the beautiful gifts.
Her huSband-to-be was thirty
minutes late. There had been no
news of him. She had thought of
calling the hospitals and the police
station. She was trying to make
herself believe her heartbeat was
in trouble. She'd rather it be that
way. She would pass out if some
one should tell her that her one
and-only had done the fade-out
act.
Friends of the bride-elect and
groom-to be talked in whispers
as they clustered about in the
living room. Even the best man
was there. Someone suggested
that he go out and look up the
man of the hour.
Meantime the now unhappy par
ents or the lovely lady in the veil
and gown, began serving the ice
cream and cake ahead of time.
The minister fingered his Bible
and tried to laugh at stale joke
which came from the mouth of the
bride-to-be's grandfather.
Finally, the news came. 1t was
the best man (and we think he
knew it all the time) came forth
with the explanation that the
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armies are being beaten in little
Greece and in Africa.
II Duce's generals are being, fired
and the army and navy posts shift
ed in an effort to make Italy a
worthy ally of Herr Hitler, one
worthy of the designation brave"
often applied to it by the leader of
the hordes of the north. ALI of
which gives due encouragement to
those in the democracies who had
visioned England cracking before
the onrush of titantic = armies.
England is far from licked at home.
or abroad.
ITALIANS CAN'T FIGHT
The Italians have never been
creditable fighters in recent CEN
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when KIDNEY TROUBLE CAUSES
YOU TO GET Up NIGHTS

stifnula ton.
One reliable medicine, highly efficient
and inexpensive is GOLD MEDAL
Haarlem Oil Capsules. This tried and
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ter in a few days-t's an effective
diuretic and kidney stiin nulant that re-
lieves the pains caused by gouty phases
of sciatica neuritis and rheumatic joint
agony when irritated by excess uric acld.
So il you have such symptoms of ki6
ney trouble as ,bacl<ache. nervousness
getting up two three times during
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leg cramps-moist palms or puff!
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it starts the first day ON it's erranc
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Don't be an EASY MARK and accep'
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Oil CapsuIes--the original and genuine.
Look for the Gold Medal Oh the box
35 cents.
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When Bladder is lrritated
When Passage is Difficult
When Backache Results
Flush Poisonous Waste and
Acid From Kidneys
GAIN IN HEALTH

If you aren't feeling just right-are
nervous-have dizzy spells and occa-
sional backache-study your kidneys
and learn more about yourself.
Through the delicate filters Of the
kidneys, acid and poisonous waste are
drawn from the blood and discharged
from the body thru the bladder
sometimes these filters are less active
than they should be because Of excess
poisonous waste and kidneys do not
function properly - they need harmless
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-21
FROM MY STUDY
WINDOW
Power In The Spoken Word

hour in the afternoon that will not
! conflict disastrously with these fix
ed activities.
Only a great speaker could have
drawn the crowd that assembled
at three o'clock last Sunday to
hear Bishop Lorenzo H. King.
They knew him. He had been one
Of their neighbors. He had taught
in one of their local colleges and
paStored one of their local
churches. They watched with pride
, and affection his triumph il other
fields.
And now at the peak of his sue
T, cess, bearing with becoming. hu-
mility and dignity the highest
honors his church could bestow up ]
on minister, he was returning to
speak again to his friends, neigh
bors and former co-laborers. Is 1t
any wonder that the people heard
him gladly?" =
WATCHED FACES =
From a point of rare vantage on
the rostrum watched the faces
of that eager throng as their friend,
their neiehbor and their leader
spoke. Seldom have I seen such
rapt attention. For forty-five min
uteS or more he held them SO that
they could not choose but hear"
Perhaps there was nothing new he
was bringing them concerning the
beauty and inexhaustible riches of
Gods word, but there was that in
the language, the imagery, the
dramatic presentation of grand old
truths, that transfigured the
speaker and filled the hearts of
two thousand hearers with a sup
pressed desire to dwell forever
with him on the heights.
The words he spoke might have
been read by the majority of the
people before him with little un-
derstanding and less response. AS
they welled up from his heart and
mind colored by warm vivid i'm
agination, given wings by his earn
estness and enthusiasm they found
their mark in both the minds and
hearts of the hearers.
They left better Informed about
the origin, structure, composition
and message of Gods Book;
more determined than ever before
to give it it's rightful place at the
center of all their life's activities:
and thrilled by the beauty and
power of one of the greatest of all
arts. For printing presses may
multiply, and of making books
there may be no end, but as long
as men have minds and souls they
will be swayed by elouuence.
TRUTH IRRESISTIBLE
There is something irresistible
about truth when it is being trans
mitted by man who, having HIM
self been freed by it, knows its
power. While their number, url-
fortunately, has been reduced, we
thank God that there are still
l
leaders like Lorenzo H. King who
can stand in the presence of all
the people and proclaim with beau
ty and telling effectiveness the way
that leads from darkness to light;
from bondage to the freedom OF
Gods sons.
Make no mistake, there is still
place-a very large place-in our
present matter of fact, sophisticat-'
ed age for the orator. For in spite
If all of the other modern methods
Of disseminating information and
influencing public sentiment, there
is still power, wonder working
power" in the spoken word
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-21
The Axis Weakens

ONE AXIS POWER seems about
to crumble from it's pinnacle of
assistant war-mongers. That power
is Italy, which stood by until Hit
Ter and his Germanic hordes had
set up the king-pins in sufficient
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Auburn
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I6I.I.P. REYNOLDS
X1k|!aal J
Let's Be Thankful
We Are Spared
So Near Xmas

ATLANTA. Ga.-(SNS)-
CHRISTMAS TIME Is near and
all mankind takes on the giving
spirit. In America we can pause
from our various duties to take time
cut to thank the Lord for his many
Nlessings and thank Him that our
country is still at peace and not
warning at present with others of
its fellowmen.
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PLATFORM

the colored that feel
Of and in which they their all political social
religious questions which face the
To awaken racial especially in the extent
that e become job makers as well seekers
g. To instruct boys and girls in the art OF thrift
the Faherhood the brotherhood of
build a racial foundation posterity
To of the cOlored must compete
dealing ih Above dependable d
will be able
business enterprise Therefore realizing vita
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gon from It's readers regard to rendering better service
in which
national Such views
opinions shall reflect
way the opinion Of INDEX.
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By DEAN GORDON b. HANCOCK
HOW MANY TENTHS?
THIS COUNTRY OF OURS

IHlS COUNTRY OF OURS IS
to face with a critical situation.
and woe unto us if we minimize
this solemn fact. Isolationism and
pacimlsm and radicalism are out OF
place until the American way of
life has been secured. Pet notions
and pet theories and pet opinions
have their place in a nation at
peace; but in a nation at war, they
easily may be the moles to break
the dykes that stay the tides of de-
struction.
1t takes team work in a nation
to save a nation threatened with
disaster as We are here in the Unit
ed States. To imagine that We can
MAINTAIN our democratic way of life
with a victorious totalitarian reg
nant in the remainder of the world
and it is further, to close our eyes
is to indulge in wishful thinking;
against ugly facts. The human
creature who seeks to hide from
reality behind the spacious screen
of an absolete isolationism is to
be pitied and every such person
is a threat to the security of our
nation. Yea more, such an one is
as deadly microbe gnawing at
the vitals of his country.
THREATENED WITHIN
Our dear Uncle Sam must soon
awake to the fact that he is threat-
ened within and without, and on
ly by the astute handling of the
situation is he coming out of this
tussle with his hide whole. Some
of our congressman with their bill
billy politics have hampered our
defense program with their isola-
tion talk: while others have evad-
ed the obvious fact that we are at
heart at war with Germany.
Even at this late date there are
those who would deny that Great
Britain is fighting our little battle
and the battle for our liberties
our way of life. 1t looks at times
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park pootleggerS
will probably be
less prosperous
and the sports
writer's will file
away their meta
phors, hyperboles
and SMILES for
praise of the left
over heroes and
those yet to be
discovered.
T h e football
players are left,
however, to face
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order for what
appeared at the
time as a "quick
Knockout" "
Mussolini has
turned out to be
the victim of his
ow n treachery
for, according to
many press re-
leases taken to
be authentic, his
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-21
BY REV. JOHN CLARENCE
WRIGHT

ONE FREQUENTLY hears in
this age of the supremacy of the
printing press that the reign of the
orator is ended; that eloquence has
had its day and has ceased to be.
One has only to hear an address
such as that delivered last Sunday
afternoon at the Wheat Street
Baptist Church to discover how
erroneous is this view.
The occasion was the culmina-
ton of a mastery organized and
directed local observance of Uni
versal Bible Sunday The stately
auditorium of the grand old church
vas comfortably filled, and the OBJ
server could detect that air of ca
ger expectancy which brings joy to
the heart of the promoters and
ponSOrS of such affairs.
NOT OPPORTUNE TIME
Sunday afternoon is locally not
considered the most opportune
lime for getting out a crowd. With
morning and evening services at
most of the churches, and Sunday
dinner still real function in most
homes, it is difficult to find an
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Raps Football

ANOTHER FOOTBALL SEA
SON has ended. The tumult and
shouting will be packed in moth
balls until the fall of 194l. The ball
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would tryout 6 nine-tenths pro-
gram against litlerism, he is in
viting disaster. Great Britain Is
making gallant fight because
she is ten-ten,hs Unlisted in her
cause. Germany is making a despe-
rate stand because Germany is
ten-tenths a1rayed against demo-
cracy and democracies. A nation
only nine-tenths prepared and
nine-tenthS loyal and nine-tenths
inspired and nine-tenths utilized il,
not going to win wars. Whatever
nations come out OF the present
struggle with their integrity intact
are going to be ten-tenths ma
tionS.
A FEARFUL
furthermore, II Uncle Sam ue-
c'des that he can make it with
nine-tenths, the ugly fact remains
that large part of these nine
tenths is anti-American.
These nine-tenths contain the
bundiSts an dreds and dynamiting
dudes and industry destroyers and
nat on defense wreckers. With one
tenth of his strength jeopardized
through prejudice and with anoth-
er tenth weakened by foreign af-
filiates, it is seriously to be doubt
e1 whether we are prepared for
what lies before Us.
If prejudice is to stand in the
way of a united nation we are fear
ing that Unc'e Ssm is going to
pay fearful price. Just how many
tenths Uncle Sam is going to place
in the field against Hitler is an
important question. Can the ma
ton afford to overlook the fact
that for every person of question.
able loyalty in our war industries
and defense program, there is a
Negro of urquestionable loyalty
available2
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There are some fine fellows
employed ON our railroads run
ing into Atlanta, for instance
there is Mr.. VIM. G. Hollis, a
young man with intelligence
combined. He is a Southern
railway dining car waiter on
the run out of Washington, ID.
c. He's clear cut, clean, when
you meet him you meet a gen.
tleman. From Mr.. Hollis talk
and manner for all 1 know he
may be a College graduate of
Yale but whether he is or not
/ know he is a gentleman of
the higher type.
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An invitation comes to the
writer from Mr.. w. w. Rob-
-inson. an official of the Afro
American Insurance Company
to attend the annual stock
holders meeting of the company
at their home office i'm Jack
sonville. Fla. the last of Janua-
ry and II is a pleasure for the
writer to accept.
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DIR. J. B. TransOu, my good
friend says, christmas is in
the air and though move
among both sick and well try
to spread sunshine and cheer
to those who are in the thrces
of disease as well as those who
are blessed with health"
DIR. Transou says, "There are
many who will not enjoy
Merry Xmas on account of ILL
ness, SO we that are blessed by
the Almighty should bow down
and give thanks to Him and
share with others not only at
Xmas time but all the time"
Mr.. j. G. Jennings, the little man
who puts over big deals is fami-
liar figure about Atlanta. He is so
small in statute 7 sometime can't
see him behind his desk in Hern-
don Building.
some is improving from a long
siege of Illness. He is able to be
on the Avenue again.
Before marriage a couple checks
UP, after marriage some of them
want to check out.
Most colored big business dies
when the head dies, says Mrs. Ge-
neva HaugabrOoks, so she says
that's the reason she is training
Mr.. MarceIIus Thornton. her
manager, and Mrs. Rosa Askew,
so il such occurs they can car
ry the business OIL after she is
gone.
What next l heard the organ IN
Cox new funeral car play funeral
dirge. 1 say again what!
like to meet such friends as
Mr.. Robert Tuggle. one Of the
boys Of the Avenue
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A fellow who always has an axe
to- grind sometimes ends up on the
chopping block.
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Our good friend "Bill' New
some is improving from long
siege of Illness. He is able to be
on the Avenue again.
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A fellow who always mourns. MY
hands are tied,' sometimes ends
up handcuffed.
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Dreamy eyes are sometimes
Schemy eyes.
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Before marriage couple checks
UP, after marriage some of them
want to check out.
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What next! l heard the organ III
Cox new funeral car play funeral
dirge. 1 say again what!
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Don't always be Growing about
yourself, remember the rooster
crows but in the end the rooster
gets it in the neck.
The fruit Of some mems la
Dor causes them to end up i'm a
jam.
A fellow who throws mud some
times runs in front of fellow who
in the long run gets in front and
gives him a good dusting.
Don't get full and end up tight.
A complainer is always a chronic
explainer..
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I like to meet such friends as
Mr.. Robert Tuggle. one Of the
boys Of the Avenue
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-18
F. $. BARNES MINGLED
 BY BIG GRIZZLEY BEAR
We'll Known Packer Has Even
 Chance of Recovery from Attack

.WRANGELL, Alaska, Oct. - While guiding a hunting party on the Stikine River, 27 miles from Wrangell, Frank s. Barnes was attacked by a grizzly bear recently and rushed here to hos pitalization where he is given a 50-50 chance of recovery.
 Barnes face and head are ter ribly mangled and his chest and legs torn by big female grizzly who charged when Barnes was about 300 yards of his cabin at Paradise Camp.
 Barnes had left L. J. Skaggs, F. M. Stokes, Grover Foster and H. B. Thornquist to return to the cabin about 800 yards away walking up an open trail built from the water.
 He had gone but 200 yards when his companions heard a shout, She's got me!' and the trio ran to his assistance, but by the time they got there, the bear had mangled Barnes and thrown him in the brush.
 Barnes had fired his gun, ap- parently without effect at the ani nal as it came up behind him and attacked before he could turn. The gun WIS found some dis tance away, indicating the ami nal had hurled it with swipe of her paw.
 Dr. J. H. Clements gave the wounded man an even chance to live. He was taken south aboard the Baranof for Portland, his former home where his wife is now visiting.
 Hunters Skaggs and Stokes with whom Barnes was guiding are wealthy Portland, Oregon business men. Thornquist is 2 Wrangell banker.
 | Barnes, recently an unsuccess ful Republican candidate for the Territorial Senate, has been May or of Wrangell many times anc for several years has been heac
 of the Wrangell Packing Com , pany.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-18
WIEN ACTIVITIES

Oct. r - Pilot Wien left fol Fairbanks with MT. and Mrs Frank Whaley, Brownie Whaley c. ". Huntington, MT. Lalley and E. Manner. The return trip will be made Friday.
 Paul RaSsmus and William Berry, Jr. were passengers to Nome from Dahl Creek and Am erican Creek. Express was taken to the Kougarok.
 Oct. 18-Dan Amuktoolik was taken to White Mountain this morning. Pilot Lund also stopped at Council with freight. Trips are scheduled for the KougaroB and Bluff tomorrow.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-18
FEDERATED DRAMA CLUB TO PRESENT PLAY

The first full length play of the season to be presented by the Federated Drama Club will be given Thursday night, October "A at the Federated Church, com mencing at 800 pm. It is three act comedy entitled, Aunt Bes- sic Beats the Band" The cast will be announced in the papers next week. Tickets are on sale by members of the Drama Club.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-18
MIROW ACTIVITIES

Pilot Chambers flew a load of express and freight to Council, Golovin, and Ungalik. John Nit chell was a passenger to Ungal- ik. Carl Apok to White Mountain and Jimmy Larsen from White Mountain to Moses Point.
 October IS, Pilot Sasseen fly ing the tri-motor took a load of live fox from Shishmaref to Se- ward for George Goshaw. Sas- seen is due from Anchorage to- night. A trip to Anchorage is planned for Sunday.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-18

Pilot Jack Herman of the Fer guson Airways arrived Nome yes terday from Kotzebue with the deputy U. s. Marshal and one prisoner. He remained in Nome overnight and returned to Kot- zebue this morning with three passengers: Mrs. Lorena Gray, Otto Worm and Walter Merrill.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-18
N 0 T I c E

Please present all bills in con- neetion with the 7th Annual Fair to Dave Gray, Treasure, also anyone having exhibits at the Fair Building will please call for them as soon as possible - by order of the Directors.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-18
NEWS ITEMS

The local office of the PAA an nounced today that there will be an Electra tomorrow with mail and express. The ship is expected to remain in Nome overnight, re turning to Fairbanks on Sunday.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-07-19
ALASKA DELEGATES FAVOR HOME RULE
 IN DEMO PLATFORM

CHICAGO, July 19-The Alaskan democratic delegation favored a platform plank urging that devel- opment of the Territory in "the traditional American way be en- larged with powers of self-goyern- ment leading to eventual statehood. :"
 The delegation also proposed blanks pledging the party to de- yelopment of potential large oil and gas fields" also in favor of prohibition of all federal tolls on highways and bridges" in the Terr- itOry.
 The statehood plank would favor appointment of only bona fide res- idents to territorial offices, and would pledge to native citizens "the same fair and equal treatment, in- cluding payment of all just claims against the government, which is accorded other citizens"
 Chairman Oscar G. Olson, desig- mated Delegate Dimond to serve on the resolutions committee, himself on the credentials committee. James V. Davis on the rules group, and Harvey J. Smith on the committed for permanent organization.