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The guardian., 1940-08-03

their charming daughter, Jeanne Lola
of Evansville, Indiana, have been
spending the summer with Mrs. Elsie
F. Richardson, sister of Mrs. Niles, of
"a Bower ST., RoxbuIy, Mass. Mrs.
Willard P. Gray, mother of Mrs. Niles
has had the pleasure of entertaining the
family in Plymouth, Mass, where she
is now residing. The Niles family also
report having a lovely time as house
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Gray
of Plymouth, Mass. Eddie Niles, a
former Guardian boy, was also track
and football star at English high and
Colby College respectively.
One of the most unique weddings of
the season was held last Monday even
ing in the Tangerine Room at Mothers
Lunch when Miss Leonice Terrell be-
came the birdie of Mr.. Prince Spencer.
The beginning of the nuptials was held
at II 80 at the Western Lunch Box in
the form of a 1ast-minute shower"
given for the bride-to-be. From this
The guardian., 1940-08-03

Amos Gibson has returned from the
hospital and is recuperating at his
home on Windsor st.
"Show Boat, the mythical, musical
pleasure craft of the air lanes, will
start chuggin' over WNAC airwaves
under full head of steam Monday
night, August 5 from 9:30 to 10000
pm. EDST. On the deck and in the
ships theater will be a full crew of
artists and two orchestras to furnish
one half hour Of entertainment.
Mrs. Sadie Forsythe, co-proprietor
of Estelle's, returned Wednesday from
three weeks visit in Hampton, Va,
called there by the illness of her broth
er whom she reports to be recovering.
She was accompanied bv Mrs. Bullock,
sister of John (Johnnie) Wyche.
Mrs. Sophronia G. Gould of Dale
St., was the guest of DR.. and Mrs. Ern-
est Robinson (Addie Sears) of Asbury
Park, N. j., the past week. She also
visited friends in New York City on her
way home.
Mrs. Drue King and the two Drue
boys accompanied DR.. King back to
Tuskegee after his brief vacation in
Boston. Drue Jr., the older son is a
student at Harvard; Abram will enter
a preparatory school here next fall.
Prof. and Mrs. Edward C. Niles and
The guardian., 1940-08-03
CITY NEWS

Thirty shades of aristocratic TAN
FACE POWDER for all tints of
brown compilations. STURGIS
CHEMICAL CO., 648 Shawmut Ave-.
opposite Kendall Street.
Mrs. E. Alice Taylor, Mrs. Mary
Arts and Miss Vera Hunt attended
the National Beautician's Convention
this week in Atlantic City. They will
visit friends in Washington and the
Worlds Fair in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Davenport of
New York and Mrs. Mayme cambridge
of Boston, spent two weeks vacation
at the Cambridge Gun and Rod Camp
in Maine.
Mrs. Alice Jones, fashionable dress
maker of 332 Mass. Ave, spent the
weekend on the Cape and was a
Sunday dinner guest at Guiomar's
dine and dance, the Arcadia, at Har-
wichport.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter English are
attending summer school at Harvard.
Mr.. English is dean at Sedalia College,
North Carolina.
Rev. j. H. D. Bailey, DID. of the
Columbus Avenue A.ME.Z. Church
and Mrs. Bailey are the house guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Warren of
II Munroe St., Roxbury while waiting
for the parsonage, to be prepared for
their occupancy. Miss Emma Will
Eams of the above address is assisting
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren to entertain the
guests.
Mrs. Gertrude Cromwell is vaca-
tioning at Ellington Sea, Plymouth,
at the Kenswil villa, and is enjoying
the most beautiful location.
Mildred Davenport's younger group
of dancers presented a program at the
Prendergast Preventorium, Tuesday
afternoon.
Mrs. W. J. Williams, Miss Vivian
Hodge and William Taylor spent the
weekend at Hyannis.
Mrs. Rosa Hodge of Cambrige is
vacationing at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Mary Hussey, Rockville Cen
ter, Long Island, N. Y.
The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Musi-
cal Association held its regular fourth
Sunday musical at 558 Mass. Ave,
last Sunday. Ernest Miller was the
principal speaker of the afternoon. A
vocal, instrumental and dramatic pro-
gram included Miss Beatrice Baze-
more's rendition of Poe's "The Raven,
Ernest O'Banyoun, pianist, in Nc
Dowells "Witch's Danse", Mrs. Vera
Hodge, contralto, in "Rose In the
BUD, and Prof. Charles Harris of
State College, South Carolina, as
guest soloist.
The guardian., 1940-08-03

point, the entire group moved to Moth
ers Lunch where they waited until 2 80
am, at which time the wedding took
place. Rev. Prescod solemnized the
ceremony with Miss Barbara Holt and
Frank johnson as brides maid and
best man, respectively. The former
Miss Terrell, who wore a figured green
silk dress with dainty corsage, will be
remembered as the young lady who was
acclaimed "Mis5 Bonneville" during
the late spring. Mr.. Spencer, an enter
tanner, IS currently appearing at the
Crawford House, Boston. At the we'd
ding reception following the ceremony
their many friends joined in the merry
making with many fellow-entertainers
rendering voluntary entertainment con-
tributions.
Mrs. Susan A. Shaw with her son
and daughter, William Shaw and Mrs.
May Chinn, spent an enjoyable week
end at lockwood Cottage in Mansfield.
Mass, erected on Mrs. Shaw's twenty
three acre estate and was welcomed
haven from the hot weather.
On Friday evening, July 26, the
Group Ten club of Somerville and
Cambridge gave their first sport frolic
at the Hobbs Crystal Ballroom, which
in spite of the heat was successful.
Prizes to the boy and girl who wore the
most unique sport costumes were won
by Phyllis Clark and William Collins,
both of Somerville. The music was sup
piled by Charlie Cox and his bows.
featuring new voice, Miss Mildred
Collins. Several hit songs were rem
dered by the singers. The club plans
a dawn dance the night before Labor
Day at Hobbs Crystal ballroom, music
by Charlie Cox. The next meeting of
the club will be held at the home of
Stanley Brothers.
Prof. Charles Harris, head of the
music department, State College,
Orangeburg, S. c., is spending part of
the summer visiting his Boston rela-
tives and friends.
Miss Carolyn johnson came over
from New York for the wedding of
Miss Agatha Guildford last week and
will remain here until Auugst.
Miss Narka Bourne, daughter of
Atty. John R. Bourne, has returned
from New York after several months
stay in the 'Big City,.
Mrs. Lucy Kennard has removed to
Is Braddock Park.
The guardian., 1940-08-03
The Foe Within

In orr battle for justice we must
realize that there are thousands of
traitors within our own ranks-men
and women who, having mortgaged
their own craven souls to our en-
emies, are willing and anxious to
sell out our group for mess Of pot
tage. In myraids of instances they
have already done so. Many of these
beings are like moles which burrow
beneath the surface, and they have
by their perHicious activities placed
the entire structure of our rights in
peril. The vilest, cruelest, most bru-
tai, craftiest, most venomous, and
most cold-blooded outspoken enemy
is far less dangerous than the vile,
crafty, Sinking, snake-like burrow-
ing foe withinl
-LLEWELLYN LEWIS.
The guardian., 1940-08-03

Miss Hettie (Baby) White of 80
Curnard st. in company with Miss
Thelma Gilbret left Boston Monday
for Wilmington, N. c., for an inde-
finite stay.
On last Friday, July 26, party was
given at the home of Miss Shigao Sato
of 194 Franklin St., Cambridge, in
honor of Miss Connie De Pima of
Springfield, Mass. Miss De Pima spent
a very pleasant weekend as guest of
Miss Sato. She visited some of the his
torical points of Cambridge and Bos-
ton, and made many new friends.
Among those present at the party were
Mary Boley, Gertrude Henry, Mildred
Alexander, Alma Latimer, Sadako
Sato, Henry Harris, Ernest Collins,
Nelson Ambush, Maceo Harris, Wilson
Hunt, Logan Kearse, Nathan Burnett.
Calvin Burnett, Bobby Lane, Danny
Skinner, Ed Ridley, and Charles Mar
shall. In spite of the excessive heat,
the guests all agreed a good time was
had by ALL
Mrs. Mary E. Schuyler of 9 Green
wlch St, was up from her summer cot
tage at Oak Bluffs and was in Boston
for week.
The Choral Group of the Everett
Citizens League held their closing
meeting last Monday evening at the
home of the director, Mrs. Ella France
Jones, 30 Winslow st. Mrs. Anna B.
Yancey, vice pres. of the league, gave
words of encouragement. The Lawn
Party will be Thursday, Aug. Is at the
home of Mrs. Vera Randolph, 81 Fair
mount St., Maiden.
The Household of Ruth No. 1O88 of
Maiden held the closing meeting for
the summer at Moose Hall. Everett. !
Sis. Sarah v Bright and Sis. Violet |
Taylor were elected delegates to the |
59th annual session of the Odd Fellows
on Aug. 6 and 7.
The Metropolitan Youth Chorus of
Boston directed by Miss Gladys Berry
man gave an afternoon concert at the
Western Ave Baptist Church on Sun
day, July %.
Miss Mabel Diggs of bingham, Mrs.
Nellie Smith of Weymouth and Miss
Winifred Butterfeld of Boston motored
to the New York Worlds Fair last
week and spent a very enjoyable four
days. Enroute to and from the Fair the
trio stopped in Hartford, Conn, where
they were royalty entertained by Mr..
and Mrs. Elias Knight and Frank
Thomas. Mrs. Knight is spending
week with the Diggs family in Hing
ham.
Prof. George A. Towns of Atlanta,
Ga, who came to Boston in June for
The fortieth anniversary of his Harvard
class left last week for home after stay
ing on a month for special hospital
treatment. While here he was a guest
in the home of the Gould family, 50
Dale ST., the former Miriam Gould be-
ing his daughter-in
One of the most charming of summer
visitors was Miss Virginia Brown of
Va, who has returned to her
home after a visit of several weeks as
the guest of Mrs. Mary E. Moore, War
wick st. Miss Brown was enabled to
meet all the younger set through the
courtesies of Miss Barbara Childs,
Warwick St., who entertained for her
as did Miss Marjorie Groves. Among
the young men Herbert Wilkins was |
gallant in escort duty. Miss
Brown expects to return to the Hub in
the near future.
The guardian., 1940-08-03
WISE SAYINGS

The hand that gives, gathers.
Small favors conciliate, but great
'avors make enemies.
Anything can happen. Everything
is forgotten.
The guardian., 1940-08-03
mtHtt NntrH

Virginia Strother, soprano, of Pro-
violence, Rhode Island, is on her sum-
mer vacation.-Mr. E. Miller was
guest speaker for the Samuel Coler-
idge Taylor Musical Association,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-16

be secured through commercial coal
dealers.
The new st. Louis smoke ordinance
requires smokeless fuel-defined as
containing less than % per cent vola-
tile matter-for hand-fred and sur
face-fred furnaces. Sale of fuel con-
tanning more than II per cent ash or
2 per cent sulphur on a dry basis is
prohibited.
In requiring smokeless fuel, St.
Louis officials hope that restrictions
on the use of unprocessed high vola-
tile Goals will create a large market
for smokeless fuels and make possible
reduction in their prices. Officials
said the city will not enter the coal
business unless absolutely necessary.
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FIGHTING THE SMOKE EVIL

st. Louis is trying an experiment of
interest to every city suffering from
the coal smoke evil. The st. Louis
board of aldermen has set up a $780,
900 revolving fund to be used, in an
emergency, for the purchase and dis
tribution to consumers of smokeless
fuel, the International City Managers
Association reports.
The appropriation was made under
a provision of the drastic smoke pre-
vention ordinance adopted this year
by ST. Louis. The provision, unique
in municipal legislation, empowers the
city to declare an emergency and buy
smokeless fuel for distribution to con-
sumers if an adequate supply cannot
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-16

And so it's a good job to see any
magazine take crack at the safe
blowers whose one idea is quick
once-over and fast cleanup, depart
ing then to a fresh field of innocent
and unsuspecting victims.
The local labor paper is hurt, the
advertiser is convinced that unions are
shady propositions and everybody is
hurt Everybody, that is, except the
crook who rides in and rides out, col
lecting as he rides and with no good
name to get hurt.
I This paper has preached the idea Of
getting behind the local labor paper
One good way to help local labor
paper to keep clean, produce good
paper and reflect a good, clean move
ment, is to give it the support it de-
serves - MAKE 1T DEPENDENT
ONLY UPON THE LOCAL LABOR
MOVEMENT AND IT'S HONEST
FRIENDS.
Many a sermon has been written
about this general theme.
Advertising is useful, legitimate,
healthful business. But when the adj
vertiser is victimized into using an
illegitimate medium to tell his story,
then nothing can stay clean.
This newspaper is the enemy of the
whole foul nestful Of racketeering ad-
vertising promoters who misrepresent
labor, offer a fraud and shoddy me-
dunn and offer the advertiser "protec-
ton" which he doesn't need and
couldn't buy.
Readers, unions and business men
can combine to help keep the frauds
out of the way. Again, the best way
is to offer UNITED SUPPORT TO
YOUR LEGITIMATE LOCAL La
BOR PAPER. Run up the old, old
motto, still good: "Not cent for
tribute &C. M. w.
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SAVE DEMOCRACY AT HOME

The European millions are fighting
each other for bare survival. We have
more complex battles to fight. We
must fight against social and economic
inertia. The Americans can avoid the
fate of Europe for thousand years
to come only as they now bend their
energies to the perfection of con-
structive way of life.-Howard Pierce
Davis.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-16
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1910.
TIME FOR COOL HEADS

Since war began in earnest in Eu.
rope, there have been some rather
silly and disturbing evidences of hys
terra in the United States. Here anC
there there have been lawless attacks
on minority religious groups and in.
dividuals. There have been no really
serious outbreaks of the kind but
enough to show a danger exists. Moi
action whipped up by bitter feeling
during the World War caused mani
festations dangerous to liberty and de-
mocracy. Such manifestations might
easily occur again.
President Roosevelt plainly had the
danger of mob and vigilante action in
mind when he warned against amateur
spy-hunting in a message to the re-
cent federal-state conference on law
enforcement problems of national de-
tense. He urged that all information
pointing to subversive activities should
be referred to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and added:
"And the common defense should
be through the normal channels of
local, state, and national law enforce
ment. The unframed policeman is as
ineffective as the unframed soldier.
The amateur detective soon becomes
fussy and malicious busy-body We
must be vigilant, always on guard,
and swift to act. But we must also
be wise and cool-headed, and must not
express our activities in the cruel
stupidities of the vigilante."
The Presidents advice is sound.
America will do well to keep it always
in mind, no matter what comes.
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ects. We know from actual expert
ence whether they are good mechanics,
carpenters or laborers, and to what
extent they might be improved with
training.
"The Defense Industries Employ
ment Register will show for each state
the number of persons either qualified
or potentially qualified for wide va
riety of industrial occupations which
the Defense Advisory Commission
deems important to national defense.
Where shortage of certain types of
skills appears likely, arrangements
can be made through the vocational
training program to give special train
ing in those fields. Our register will
be an important guide in the selection
of the best type of workers to take
these training courses"
Over 130 Occupations Listed
While w. P. A. workers are required
under the law to accept offers of bona
fide employment in private industry,
enrolment in the training program is
optional, the commissioner pointed
out. In fact, he said, the willingness
and interest of the prospective trainee
will be the first factor considered in
making selections.
In his instructions to state W. P. A.
administrators, Colon Harrington in
cluded a list of more than 130 indi-
vidual occupations which have been
designated by the Defense Advisory
Commission as important to the de-
fense program. The Defense Indus
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-16

A big rubber tire manufacturing
company has successfully tested the
new bullet-proof tires it has been de-
veloping for the United States Army.
Though the tires are standard, the
tubes used are so constructed that
holes made by bullets are sealed with
out any appreciable loss of pressure.
Triple layers of special rubber COM
pounds give the tires their bullet proof
qualities, it is said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-16
Railroad Unions Condemn
Draft; Express Opposition

Cleveland, O. (ILNS).-Heads of
five big railroad labor unions ex-
pressed opposition to the Burke
Wadsworth conscription bill in state
ment made public here. Compulsory
military service in time of peace is
the very antithesis of freedom" said
the statement addressed to chairmen
of the Senate and House military
affairs committees. 1t declared that
thousands of unemployed would enlist
voluntarily if given the opportunity.
The letter was signed by the fol-
lowing: Alvanley Johnston, Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers; D. B.
Robertson, Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen; A. F. Whit
ney, Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men; J. A. Phillips, Order of Railway
Conductors; 7. C. Cashen, Switch
mems Union of North America.
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MOVE TO PLACE
idle WORKERS
in INDUSTRIES

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) In a
national move to place w. P. A. work
ers in defense industries, work rec
ords of more than 100000 persons
on or awaiting assignment to W. P. A.
rolls will be examined during the next
six weeks for skills and potential skills
which can be turned to productive
channels in defense work, Col. F. c..
Harrington, w. p. A. head, announced
here.
Instructions have been sent all state
w. P. A. administrators to proceed at
once with the establishment of uni
form Defense Industries Employment
Register which will show for each
w. P. A. worker, as well as the 1,000,-
900 or more on w. P. A. waiting lists,
either the skills at which they are pro-
fcient or for which they can be
trained. Workers already qualified
are, of course, available for immediate
employment, Col. Harrington ex-
planned. Those requiring additional
training are subject to enrolment in
the special vocational training courses
now being offered comparatively by
w. P. A., the Office of Education, and
the Defense Advisory Commission.
Register to be Accurate
"This register probably will be one
of the most accurate indexes of avail
able skills on record" Harrington de-
clared. eve have not only the volun-
tary statements of the more than
100000 persons on or awaiting as
signment to our rolls as to the kind
of work they can do. We have in adj
dition the actual performance records
of approximately 100000 workers
currently employed on w. P. A. prof.
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7heCherry
1" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet we
tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly. Sometimes fiippantly,
sometimes recklessly. !.

Forbes Magazine isn't noted for
friendship to labor and in the case
now in hand it probably isn't printing
its piece for the sake of labor. But
it's good job anyway-and worth
talking about here.
R. L. Mccormick writes the piece
about the special edition men and
"book" men who clutter the field of
labor advertising and skin the legiti-
mate field of business that ought to
go to the established labor paper and
the established official magazine.
Mccormick estim mates that the
"take" of the special edition boys per
year runs, conservatively, at million
dollars.
One promoter in one state is cred
tied with having taken close to $780,
600 in his 20 years of operations.
That is "nice money" for those that
get it.
Meanwhile the legitimate weekly
publications go hungry.
Labor editors have talked about
these evils for years. They have
talked and talked and talked.
And yet, even today, there are
advertisers who fall for the spe-
cial edition stuff and the annual
''book" idea that couldn't be dyna-
mited into giving five-buck note
to real paper for real adver-
tising.
Many labor papers go along with
the special edition idea, because it
promises quick money in dry and
dull season.
Special editions, put on by the paper
itself, are sound and legitimate ad-
vertising media. It's when the "we
boys" gangs get hold of them, often
by misrepresentation and fairy stories,
that the damage is done. THEY GO
OUT AND SWING THE CLUB AND
USE THE SHAKE-DOWN, leaving a
trail that the honest editor has to
spend the rest of his life wiping out.
Labor papers, by and large, have
no use for that poison. They hate it.
There is no cleaner field in the whole
advertising picture, than the local la
Dor paper. The local labor paper has
loyal following, it is a part of the
labor movement and honest service
has to be its policy.
There is no reason for the army of
racketeers, porch climbers and sec
ond-story men who travel under the
high-fown name of special edition
men," equipped with line of argu-
ment that amounts to the buying and
selling Of the good name of labor.
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COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

penditures up to more than one and a
half times the amount spend in 1886
1897.
Great Britain's expenditures during
the present fiscal year will be about
1854 per capita, compared with nor
NAL per capita national income of
$514, according to the budget pre-
sented July 23 by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. Canada's prospective
expenditures of $117 compare with the
1936-37 per capita national income of
$282. The experimentation in
come figures for the United States will
be about $104 as against $557
Although much less has been made
public about statistics of public finance
in Germany, the federation said, about
AZ per cent of the national income was
being absorbed by taxes in 1889 as
result of the long war preparations,
according to estimates available in the
United States. In August, 1889, Ger
many's debt was estimated at 50,000,-
100000 marks--or about $252 per cap
ita. At present, Germany's govern
mental expenditures are estimated at
$19,200,000,000 annually, with taxes
producing about $9,60O,000,0O0, or
$121 per capita. The federation said
these figures include various forms of
social security payments and other
contributions to governmental activ-
tiles such as winter relief.
The fiscal year 1936-37 was used for
comparison by the federation because
it was the year preceding augmented
defense preparations in Europe, and a
comparatively normal business year
for the United States. Budget esti-
mates for 1940-41 were used because
they reflect the result of full years
engagement in the war by Canada and
the United Kingdom, and almost full
year of emergency defense prepara-
tions in the United States. The 1910
l941 estimates may, of course, be re-
vised before the end of the year.
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Home Workers Protected
By Federal Injunction

New York, N. Y.-Federal Judge
John w. Clancy signed an injunction
here restraining the Steinhardt Nov
city Company, Inc, from further vio-
lations of the Fair Labor Standards
Act of 1888 and directing the payment
of $4,000 in back wages to home work
ers employed by the company. Gov
ernment representative said the home
workers made hand-knitted children's
and women's hats and often earned as
little as 5 to 12 cents an hour while
the act required the payment of 80
cents.