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Evening star., 1940-04-07

Stanton Park-Peabody School,
Fifth and c streets NE, 8 pm.
Summit Park-East Washington
Heights Baptist Church, Alabama
and Branch avenues Sc, 8 pm.
Wednesday, April 10.
Michigan Park - Bunker Hill
School, Fourteenth street and Mich
igan avenue NE, 8 pm.
North Randle Community-Port-
able School, Minnesota avenue and
E street Sc. pm.
Rhode Island Avenue-Woodridge
Branch, Public Library, Twenty
second street and Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE. 8 pm.
Thursday, April IL.
American University Park-Hurst
Hall, American University, Massa-
chusetts and Nebraska avenues NV,
8 pm.
Congress Heights Congres
Heights School. Nichols avenue and
Raleigh street Sc, 8 pm.
: Washingtonians - 5325 Thirty
Eighth street NV, 8 pm.
Friday, April IL.
Brightwood-Paul Junior High
School, Eighth and Oglethorpe
streets NV, 8 pm.
Saturday, April 13.
Mount Pleasant-Mount Pleasant
Branch, Public Library, Sixteenth
and Lamont streets NV, 8pm.
Calendar Notes.
DR.. Virgil D. Reed, assistant di-
rector OF the census, will be principal
speaker before the Mount Pleasant
Citizens Association Saturday eve
ming, william c. Lee, president, an
nounced.
H. K. Kugel, smoke regulation en-
gineer of the District, will address
members of the Burleith Citizens
Association tomorrow night, it was
announced by Geof1rey Creyke. jr.,
secretary.
Election OF officers will be held by
the Brookland Citizens Association
Monday evening, Marvin M. Nc
Lean, president, said.
The Hillcrest association tomor-
row night will nominate officers,
with elections to be held at the May
meeting. j. w. Martin, president,
announced.
The meeting Of the Washington
ians Thursday night will be held
In the home Of the secretary, Mrs.
William L. Hessick, 5325 Thirty
Eighth street NV, 1t was an
nounced by Miss Eta l.. Taggart,
president Of the group.
Evening star., 1940-04-07
How They Stand

Standing Of proposals affect
ing the District and voted on by
citizens associations since the
start of the civic year.
Legalized Horse Racing In the
District.
Opposed ---.--20
Local Residents for Districts
Official Positions.
Opposed ---0
Investigation Of Small Loan
Practices in District.
FaVor -----------------8
Opposed ---,-----------0
Evening star., 1940-04-07
On Capitol Hill
A Weekly Report on
D. c. Legislation

Although tomorrow is the first So
called District day" of the month
in the House, none of the local bills
on the calendar is expected to be
called up. Chairman Randolph of
the District Committee is said to be
planning to forego the District day
because of the controversial nature
Of the pending bills which have been
held over since the last regular ses-
sion Of Congress.
Most highly. controversial of these
measures are:
H. r. 6136 to open the local milk
market to milk and cream produced
outside the present mildshed.
H. R. GAIT authorizing the Public
Utilities Commission to limit the
number of taxicabs.
H. r. $500 to humanize insanity
proceedings.
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Committee Session.

Committee Session.
The House District Committee Will
hold its regular weekly meeting to-
morrow at 10:30 am. Action Is ex-
pected to be taken on the following
H. R. 1865 to revise existing law
regulating the practice of dentistry.
H. r. 8692 to amend the law regu-
lating the practice of podiatry.
H. R. 8846 to provide for voluntary
retirement of police and firemen al
half pay after Is years service.
New Legislation.
Bills introduced:
Senate:
S. 3698 to permit the BARRIERS Ex-
amining Board to fix minimum rates
for barber shops and the hours of
opening and closing of such shops
S. 3699 to modify the existing in
determinate sentence and parole
law
House:
H. R. 9210 to modify indeterminate
sentence and parole law companion
of S. 3699).
H. r. 9218 to revise the Unemploy-
ment Compensation Act.
H. r. OTIS to provide for a full
time Traffic Court judge.
H. R. 9233 to provide for the elec-
ton Of the two civilian Commission
ers.
H. R. s245 to prohibit the assign
ment of wages.
Evening star., 1940-04-07
BY JESSE C. sUTER.


naming President Young
native Commissioner the District Columbia
pleasant surprise sudden while number
citizens with the aid ading friends trying to solve the
problem the President that perfectly good campaign
ruined
On hand the appointment has been approved and the ad
mnaton of this home town who made good" great
will not be through lack Of All willing
to help and all believe he will make nne Commissioner
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20
Times Magazine
Continued from Page ID

justices, assail color discrimina'
ton so hard that they help to keep
it elive."
IL defended, "Earl Brown be-
lonped to a new school Of journal
ISM" 1t told Browns method oil
getting the material for his artl'
cles and then romped; From news
papers and court files Earl Brown
traced Manager Roxborough's con-
nections with the numbers racket
Manager Julian Blacks impressive
police record. Some of the more
lurid facts about the Louis en-
tourage were generously omitted
from the story.
1t said that first reactions to
Browns piece were generously
friendly" 1t said that IL OF IL
letters in Browns mail from read
ers "praised" his essay Presl-
dent Rufus +. Clement of Atlanta
University and North Carolina's
sportswriter Dave Hawkins being
among them.
1t quoted Louis, in part: "If he
makes something out of it, let him
make it. make mine fighting"
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20
ARKANSAS READY
Continued from Page u

Negro teachers Of the state, the
State Parent Teacher Association,
and the Negro business and pro-
fessional leaders Of the state are
host to the closely-tied national
meetings.
The National P. 7. A. will hold
its meeting at the College on Mon
day and Tuesday, July % and 23,
and the American Teachers Asso-
citation will hold its meeting at
the College on Wednesday and
Thursday, July "a and %, but on
Friday, July 26, the meeting place
will be Little Rock and Hot
Springs. 1t has been IA years
since the American Teachers Asso
citation has met in Arkansas, and
indications at present point to a
large delegation of Negro teach
ers from every section of the coun-
try. The teachers of the state are
making elaborate plans for the en-
tertainment of the delegates.
The general theme of the meet
ing is Improving the Education
of Negroes through the Co-ordi-
mated Utilization of All Our Re-
sources" Many officials both
state and local are scheduled to
appear on the program.
Mrs. Mary Foster McDavid OF
| Alabama, is president of the Ma
tional Congress of Colored Parents
| and Teachers and DIR. Darlington
l.. Davis of Baltimore, Maryland,
is president of the American
Teachers Association with DR.. II,
Councill Trenholm of Alabama
serving as Executive Secretary.
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20
Cab and Grub

Cab and Grub
1t was Saturday night up at
Marion Mot Smiths where the
Q brothers were having their gab-
grub session. Many were there
and much was said.
Now there were "Skip" Hazard
of State and Frank Adair of the
same place. 1t was simple this:
DR.. Hazard from line to limelight.
From Clark U. in Atlanta to the
zenith in biology. And Adair to
go to Harvard on a scholarship.
Honesty
He had owed that debt over
three years but last week Dubis-
sons Undertakers received two
money order, one for $10O and the
, other for three dollars. They had
smeared the debt from the books,
Mad
You know about it, The boy
slashed up his dad and hit the grit
Some said he was crazy.
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20

CONTINUED from Page y

He threw strikes at the Repup-
licans and cleverly limited that
they were the party Of "appease-
ment." At another point he huri-
ed at their efficiency" idea and
pointed out that the dietators
Dragged about efficiency
Negro reporters at the meeting
raised a cry against discrimina-
tion at the press tables being BAR
red from the tables occupied by
the white reporters. However, re-
lief was quickly given to them
to 90 anywhere in the convention
hall, although this did not admit
them to the "white press" tables
1t was pointed out by the Negro
press that at the Republican Con-
ventiSp they were permitted to
the press tables without discriml-
nation.
Here is their Negro plank as
taken from newspaper
Our Negro citizens have parti-
cipated actually in the economic
and social advances launched by
this administration, including faii
labor standards, social security
benefits, health protection, work
relief projects, decent housing, aid
to education, and the rehabilitation
of low-income farm families. We
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20

Then hell popped loose in the
Negro. Publisher Robert L. Vann
led off with a laundering attack
on Editor Brown in his Pittsburgh
Courier.
1t might be corrected that the
Amsterdam News and Courier are
only part of the Negro press.
Time magazine might have been a
bit more discriminating in its use
of the term, NEGRO press.
Time says that Publisher c. B.
Powell of the Amsterdam News
asked Brown, "Do you want to re-
sign or be fired. Earl Brown chose
to be fired"
q. Editor Brown believed in
honest news reporting, telling the
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20
A Co Educational Institution Of Higher Learning
For Further information address
THE DEAN

DIR. John b. Watson, President
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20
Few Colleges.

Few colleges for Negroes have
come into their own at more
rapid pace than has the Arkansas
State College located at Pine Bluf
Arkansas. Ton years ago 1t had
only eight buildings and an en-
rollment of SO college students.
Today it has 81 beautiful face
brick buildings, fire-resistant in
construction and arranged in qua
triangular form and an enrolment
Of 443 students. No one Of the
smaller Negro colleges can boast
of a finer and more completely
equipped plant. Degrees are
awarded in the following twelve
sselds-BiologN, Chemistry, Edu-
cation, English, History, Mathe-
matics, Modern Foreign Langu-
ages, Social Sciences, Agriculture,
Home Economics, Mechanic Arts,
Physical Education. The program
Of extra-curricula activities is
complete and has been designed
to meet the recreational needs OF
every student. So also does the
athletic program include all the
major sports for men and Tor
women, the college being q mem
ber Of the Southwestern Athletic
Association.
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20

have aided more than half a mil
lion Negro youths in Vocational
training, education and employ
ment. We shall continue to strive
for complete Legislation. safeguards
against discrimination in govern
ment service and benefits, and in
the national defense forces. We
pledge to uphold due process and
the equal protection of the laws
for every citizens, regardless Of
race. creed or color,
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20
Church Donated BY
White Farmer Is
Gaining In Numbers

Headland, Ala. - Organized by
the Rev. N. J. Hunt in February
of 1888 Webster Chapel A. M. Z.
Church has increased its member
ship to 90.
Webster Buntner, kind-hearted
white plantation owner built the
church for the colored people to
be used both for worship and
school purposes.
Presiding Elder NJ. c. Miles on
invitation of Rev. Hunt went out
to Webster Chapel where he also
met Mr.. Buntner.
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20
States
Twelve Point
Program

/. WHOLESOME Surroundings
With its elms and pines, grass
and shrubs, the campus is a
place of beauty.
2. HEALTH-Every student is un!-
der the direct care Of the col
lege physician throughout the
school year.
8. SOCIAL LIFE A carefully
planned social program includ-
ing lectures, concerts, recitals,
plays, proms, banquets, period
ic dances, outings, hikes, and
the like offer wholesome social
experience for all students.
4. RELIGION-The Sunday church
sevicc, the vespers and the per-
iodic weeks Of prayer keeps
alive the spirit of religion on
the campus. The Young Mems
and the Young Womcn's Chris
tian Associations conduct alter
natcly the midweek vespcrs.
8. STUDENT AID A limited
number of work scholarships
are available for deserving stu
dents who are in need of finan-
cinl aid
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20
Motion Pictures
For Churches

A gigantic moving picture ex-
hibition of the First World Con-
ference of Christian Youth which
convened in Amsterdam, Holland
last year has been prepared by
Rev. Howard T. Primm our pas
tor at Hot Springs, Ark, The De-
partment of Religious Education
commends this exhibition to pas
tors and church leaders. For in
formation communicate with DR..
Primm, Visitors Chapel A. M. E.
Church, Hot Springs, Ark.
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1910

truth about Negroes for their own
benefit" Brown can make liv-
ing" writing for white mems pub
locations" as he did before joining
the Negro press, Time points out.
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20

O. PREPARATION OF TEACHERS-As Teachers College,
the institution prepares young and young to
enter the teaching field both the secondary and the ee
mentary levels
T. PLACEMENTThe Personal Department and the academ-
ic deans handle the work of placing Arkansas State
graduates
s. PREPARATION FOR OTHER FIELDS-Tho curricuar
offerings ranged to offer definite preparation
for medicine law, social work, and the vocations
o. FACULTY-Faclites ample for the work every de-
partment maintained
10 FACULTYA strong, welprcparcd faculty guarantees to
every student the finest type Of instruction.
H. CERTIFICATIONThe college is fully certified that
graduates the best graduate professional schools
2 PURPOSE-The college dedicated to the proposition of
helping young and young to live completely
and fully In their complex social environment
Pine Bluff press., 1940-07-20
The News Beat
By The Editor
Continued from Page -

Asked the reporter, "Are you mar.
ried?" NO." he belched, ave
been going with that girl for II
years."
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-08-08

include iron, nickel, cobalt, cop
per, aluminium, tin, magnesium
arsenic, carbon, sulphur, phos
phorus, silicon, sodium, calcium
potassium, manganese, OXYGEN
hydrogen, nitrogen, chlorine
chromium, titanium, lithium and
helium)
2. Because study of long-lasting
meteor trains is the only way of
checking on wind velocities at alti-
tudes of 80 to 70 or 100 miles.
(The trains are charted very
carefully on sky maps by OBJ
servers, who draw sketches every
few minutes of what they look
like.
On one night, the night the Par
seids hit their maximum in 1882,
more than 1000 meteors were Wis
ible in the clear Arizona sky. They
came so fast that observers could
not plot all of them. though they
did get data on several hundred.
.EX
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-08-08
Fiery Shower, Are
Due Next Weekend

The Fiery Tears of st. Lawrence
viii be shed next weekend.
They are the Perseid meteors
and from one of the greatest O
the annual meteoric showers
The shower began about foul
weeks ago; and persons who have
seen long, brilliant meteors which
leave trains of remarkable length
have been seeing Pereids.
The Perseids take their astron
omical name from the fact that
their radiant-the spot from which
they appear to come-is in the
constellation Perseus.
Name For Feast Day
The legendary name comes from
ST. Laurence's feast day, August
10. The meteor shower will reach
its maximum August 10 or H. and
will fade away in less than a week
The best time to view them is
between midnight and dawn, look
ing into the northeast sky at first
and then following the constella-
ton across the sky as it rises.
The reason there will be a sho-
wer-that is, from a dozen to
several hundred meteors visible
each hour-is that the earth will
enter a swarm of cosmic particles,
mostly about the size OF the end
of persons finger. which travel in
the orbit of Tuttle's comet.
Few Mysteries Remain
Meteoric astronomers know al
most all they need to know about
the Perseid shower. There are
mysteries to be solved in that
branch of science, but very few of
them are connected with the Per
sids because of two reasons:
L. Tney come at time or year
when it is easy to study them be-
cause Of clear skies and good
weather.
2. The shower has been known
and studied for centuries, from the
time of the ancient Chinese,
Persian. Egyptian and Grecian as
tronomers.
Periodic meters are the debris
of comets which have been cap
tured by members OF the solar
system, the New international
Encyclopedia says. 1t adds:
1T is supposed that the matter
composing the (comet's) tail has
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-08-08

enough, if laid, end to end, to
encircle the earth 20 times.
There is an annual renewal of
about 100 ties to the mile, on the
average, but several important
railroads get along with a yearly
renewal of so TO Is ties per mile.
This longer life of the tie results
from better roadbed, better con-
struction methods, and chemical
treatments with preservatives. In
recent years railroads have been
buying about so million ties a year
compared to nearly $50 million 80
years ago. Three-quarters of the
ties are now treated with wood
preservatives before they are laid.
Ties are cut from number OF
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-08-08
"Plant Life"

Apparently certain plants do
have intelligence, according to
certain evidence. South of the
equator those which climb by twin
ing spirally about a support make
their ascension by twining from
right to left, whereas north of the
equator, with few exceptions, the
spirals turn from left to right F.
and nothing will induce them to
change their course. If you wish
to be convinced try compelling the
common morning-glory to do other
wise. Take sprout which has not
been winding itself about a sup
port and twist the vine about it
from right to left. If it is not pre-
vented from doing so, the vine
will reverse itself and begin to
climb in the correct manner.
Fastened in the wrong position, it
will make a loop Or double back
to resume it's normal and ac-
customed procedure of climbing
from left to right. Seeds taken
from one hemisphere to the other
have produced plants which follow
the old maxim, when in Rome, do
as Romans do The plants will
adopt the custom of their foster
country.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-08-08

been driven off into space, while
that of the nucleus has been scat
tered along the orbit by the dis
integrating forces to which it has
been subject. In some cases this
disintegration apparently is com
pete, while in others it still is go
ing on"
The earth, then, annually reach
es that place in its orbit where this
debris is. The velocity of the earth
through space, its gravitational at
traction for the cosmic particles
and the particles own velocity
through space combine to send the
tiny bits of material plunging
through the atmosphere toward
the worlds surface.
Disintegration Of Cosmos
Not one in many million of those
particles ever reaches the earth. In
the preponderanc of cass, friction
with the atmosphere generates
such a terrific heat that the par
ticles are burned up, each in a
blazing instant of brilliance.
1t is this flaming disintegration
of the cosmos that man sees, and
calls a meteor.
In the exceptional case where the
chunk of matter is large enough to
survive the trip through the at
mosphere and reach the earth, it
is called a meteorite. That last
syllable-ite-tells, in the language
of astronomy, whether the cosmic
dust has hit the worlds surface.
All meteorites are meteors, but not
all motors are metorites.
Considerable work has been done
at Flagstaff and Tucson studying
Perseids, as well as other meteor
showers.
Meteor Crater Cited
Arizona also has had numerous
contacts with meteorites - the
most spectacular being the one
which caused Meteor Crater
near Winslow OF course, that
meteorite probably was not a
is mentioned here only
to remind readers how a huge
mass Of material can land on the
earth from afar.
In general, the study of meteors
is important for many reasons, of
which two are:
/. Because meteorites come
from outside the earth, analysis of
them tells scientis what the ma
terial elsewhere in tn universe is
like.
Cor instance, about one third
of the chemical elements have
been found in meteorites. They
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-08-08
Willkie Will Make
35 Minute Speech

In its competed form the ac.
ceptance speech to be delivered at
Elwood, Ind, on August II will
run to 5000 or 5000 words and will
take approximately 35 minutes to
deliver.
His official campaign will open
about September 10 or Is, and the
candidate expects to make series
of major speeches and large num-
ber of ''in between" talks.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-08-08
Specialists

Nature is the greatest specialist
of all, in the opinion of scientists
of the National Wildlife Fedora
ton.
MAN, with all his inventive
genius and merchanization has
never been able to duplicate, or
even approximate, the feats of Ma
ture," according to David Aylward,
president of the National Wildlife
Federation.
'In the matter of flight, for in
stance, Nature is far ahead of
man. Aylward points out. "The
bird is the most perfect flying ma
chine known. 1t is ideally adopted
to locomotion through the air and
mans best efforts to duplicate its
flight have so far failed in every
respect but speed"
The sole reason for mans SUI
perior speed in the air can be at
tributed to his ability to construct
egines of great power, according to
Aylward.
"The best plane man could build
would not bulge from the ground
if it had no more power than that
expended by a Bird Aylward says.
"In every other respect than speed
the bird is still the worlds best
flying machine, despite mans un-
relenting efforts to perfect avia-
ton. A bird can easily go through
maneuvers that would tear the
average plane to pieces and in al
most every other respect is far
superior to man-made flying ma
chimes.
"The ability of a duck hawk to
come hurtling out of the sky in a
vertical dive, its body virtual
aerial javelin, and yet come out
of the devastating swoop safely, is
feat that even Stuka bomber
couldn't duplicate"
Aylward states that Nature is
superior to man in the water as
we'll as the air.
Compare the speed and maneu-
verability of submarine to the
performance of a fish, or to GER
tain marine animals" he COM
ments by way of example.
Supporting Aylward's claim that
Nature is superior to man in the
water are the antics of the sword
fish, sailfish, tarpon and other
deep-sea denizens when hooked
on heavy tackle. The speed of a
hooked marlin has been reliably
estimated at so miles an h o r,
when he is pulling against fierce
resistance. What could the fish
if he were free? Furthermore,
fish is capable of leaping several
feet out of the water, and what
marine can do that?
Officers of both the British and
American navies have seen por-
poises easily swimming ahead of
the prows of fast-moving destroy
ers. Those destroyers were going
upwards of 40 miles an hour, yet
the porpoises were evidently just
fooling around as they kept ahead
of the speed of the boats.
The giant barracuda, known as
the "Tiger of the Sea" is estimat.
ed to swim as fast as 80 miles an
hour, and a shark has been timed
at a respectable gait. No under.
sea craft yet devised by man can
approach these speeds.
Evidently Nature still has some
thing on the ball.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-08-08
Wood Ties Still
Needed BY Railroads

More than $500 patents have
been granted in the last so years
for railroad tie materials other
than wood, according to a recent
publication, Products of American
Forests" issued by the Forest Pro-
ducts Laboratory, Madison, Wis,
United States Department of Agri
culture But. in general, railway
traffic continues to travel on a
wood foundation. 1t is estimated
that about a billion wooden ties
are in service in the United States
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-08-08

kinds of wood and in nearly every
state in the Union. Many are hewn
from the logs by hand. The pre-
ference, however, is for the sawed
tie because of its greater unformi-
ty, it lower cost for treatment, and
its better handling qualities.
Cheapness, strength, elasticity,
resistance to shock, ease of treat
ment, and electric insulating pro-
perties are qualities of wood ties
that account for the demand that
promises a continuing market for
this staple products of American
woodlands.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-08-08
country.

Peculiar problems of a proud,
pudctilidus prince. What made
him challenge his cousin to meet
him in law court instead of the
fled of honor-and why did he
demand that his cousins two
wives, past and present, quit call
ing themselves princesses? Read
about this royal rumpus in The
American Weekly, the magazine
distributed with next weeks LOS
ANGELES EXAMINER.