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better type of employment and
training Eventually executive) for
the younger generation. Let us
unite in resisting all direct or in
direct assaults upon Negro bust
ness. Let us ponder carefully the
monumental progress the Negro
has made in business, in the past
rs years, despite evident and free
ly admitted mistakes. We must re-
sist with all the courage we can
muster every attempt of unfavor-
able criticism of Negro business.
No criticism of Negro business
should be regarded as a legitimate
reason for not patronizing Negro
owned enterprises. l say this not
with the idea of defending poorly
managed Negro business firms but
rather with the idea that if we do
not give Negro business an oppor-
tunity to learn to sell-to learn to
do business as other groups do it
how can we expect better Negro
business and better executive jobs.
Then, too, profits made in Negro
business help to enrich the group
as a whole. l am sure you will
agree that no race or group or in
dividual ever grew rich on a job.
No matter how much one earns as
an employee, the executive and
owner always earns more.
So, if you have a hope for the
success of Negro business, l urge
you to support Negro-owned enter
prises. Help the Negro in business
do better business-inspire him to
serve you better. Through your
cooperation he will learn to do bet
ter buying, better selling, and both
you and the Negro in business will
benefit. In articles to follow 1 will
outline the materials and tools the
business man must learn to use to
help him increase his profits. Next
week will discuss what advertis-
ing is-and the part it can play in
the development of any business
regardless of its size.
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Why Buy Negro
Periodicals?

Editor: Every racial group has
many problems in common that
should be expressed without preju-
dice and with complete understand
ing-hence the Negro press. Other
papers other than Negroes are in
terested in their own group. Our
boys and girls need to be trained
in business and the Negro press
gives them this opportunity. If you
do not buy Negro periodicals, do
not expect anything in this kind
of work when your child completes
his training. Every Negro home in
the Twin Cities should have at
least two Negro weekly papers in
the house along side of controlled
newspapers.
HERBERT HOWELL
May 81, 1910. -.. -,.-
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MENTION THE
MINNEAPOLIS
SPOKESMAN
National Defense and the Negro
repeated by Request from t

Whipped excitement by the German drives against
small large nations alike will spend millions for
national defense
Still unsoved however, is the question of what will be done to
possible such Negroes become soldiers
army navy marine corps.
would be the actions of nation talking defense
unwilling let of its most loyal citizens their lives
for this
famous made that
who live to feast the decay of American Civilization
already within the city gates Judging from the actions of the War
departments barbarians garnhed
education and combat technology the enlisted service
of this country.
did not love America because it home, could
point amusing results of the practices discrimination
vogue For example, Hitler himself could enlist Air
Corps and all of best secrets he shaved off his mOustache
and parted his hair in the middle Negro the
CARELESS his loyalty would be assigned to the kitchen labor units
who went had grand could understand
why the combat forces of this nation almost
white Since Sherman put it, % hell" why
white regarded the best of rewood
keeping it hot.
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OPEN TO CRITICISM

the National Negro Congress
Whether the made the last week
voting accept Lewis CLIO leader and his Labors Nom
Partisan League remains to be
the leadership of A. Phillip Randolph
the elected for PRESIDENT the
mold the into great nationwide Negro
organization the who considered by the
American Negroes No. l leader.
refusing stand for reelection Randolph brought out the truth
the Communist and the CLIO
Wherever
money, you get your ideas and control
And originator John P Davis took the
glowing of Stain and Russia prang the
skies recently made Finland his oyster the organ
cation that Negro people the certainly hit
new the type reasoning that the expects
conscious thinking Negro people to follow?
though bunch of soreheads who find nothing right in
anything except they believe control tooth and toe nail
the National Negro Congress- The majority with Randolph wo
by his action says of the mess-S Louis Call
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Poetic Thoughts
By Morris Gibbs, Sr.
An Alley Cat

An Alley Cat
At midnight in the alley,
An alley cat comes to wall,
And he chants the hate of a million
years
AS he swings his snaky tail.
MalevOlent, bony, brindled
Tiger and devil and bard,
His eyes are Goals from the middle
of He'll
And his heart is black and hard.
He twists and crounches and
capers
And bares his curved sharp
claws
And he sings to the stars of the
jungle nights
Ere cities were, or laws.
Beast from a world primeval, 8
He and his leaping clan,
When the blotched red moon leers
over the roofs,
Give voice to their scorn of man.
He will lie on a rug tomorrow
And lick his silky fur
And veil the brute in his gray eyes
And play he's tame, and purr.
But at midnight in the alley
He will crouch again and wall,
And beat the time for his demons
song,
With the swing of his demons
tail.
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an unstrung condition that you are
less able to cope with the situation
when it does arise. The old adage
about not crossing your bridges
until you get to them is a wise
motto for the woman who hopes to
retain her youthful beauty. Rest,
relaxation and peace of mind are
more important to any woman than
Il whole set Of beauty rites.
Don't Fidcet
Learn to sit quietly. Don't al
ways be fidgeting with your jewelry,
clenching and unclenching your
fingers, swinging your feet. A quiet,
well-poiSed woman is a joy to all
around her and is much more at
tractive to men than a jack-in-the-
box.
Not that can claim that peace of
mind and relaxation will allow you
to 20 through the years with an
entirely unlined face. If your skin
is inclined to be dry, a good rich
cream, applied before retiring or
before the aforementioned hour of
IeldAillOIl Viii 20 lar lOWuEuS WHtu- .
ing off wrinkles and crows feet.
But if YOU will look around you,
you'll find that the women whose
faces show the least wear and tear,
the women who are the most at
tractive and the most sought after,
are those who are serene and sOoth-
ing. Push your worries off to a far
corner of your mind where, as like
ly as not, they will take care of
themselves. Be like the famous
Scarlet O'Hara-wOrry about that
tomorrow.
What are your beauty prob
lems9 Write Marie Downing,
Larieuse Beauty Foundation,
Room 521-3I9 North Fourth
ST., St. Louis, No., and she will
be glad to answer them. Be sure
to enclose d seIf-addressed
stamped envelope.
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WHEATLEY AUXILIARY
NEEDS MEMBERS!

Editor: l wish to take this OPP
portunity to point out the impor-
lance of the annual Phyllis Wheat
ley Auxiliary Membership Drive.
The drive, l believe reflects the
spirit and interest which the COM
munity has in Phyllis Wheatley
Settlement House. The support,
interest, and cooperation of the
community is indispensable in the
success of any enterprise or insti-
tuition.
Phyllis Wheatley House desires
the interest and support of those
whom it serves. 1t desires to de-
velop better citizenship and racial
consciousness. The boy or girl
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Listen to This
By Hobart T. Mitchell
THE NEGRO IN JUNE

On June l, 1875, Booker T.
Washington gradual from
Hampton Institute, after complet-
ing a three-year course.
Isabelle Thomas, June |, 1843,
changed her name to SOjourner
Truth to become one of the great
est speakers of her time against
slavery.
Charles Young, commissioned a
lieutenant colonel June l, 1916.
DIR. John Hope of Atlanta Uni
versity, born in Augusta, Georgia,
June 2, 1868.
June 8, 1929, the United States
Supreme Court handed down de-
cision in which the right of "Ne-
groes of the Ancient Egyptian
Arabic Order of the Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine" to use the similar
name and title, emblems and re-
gala of the white Shriners, was
upheld.
From June 5, 1917, to Septem-
Der IL, 1918, there were 2,290,527
Negroes registered for service in
the United States Army. 31.74 per
cent of the Negroes and 26.84 per
cent of the white registrants were
accepted for military service.
June, 1862, Congress passed an
act prohibiting slavery in all the
present territories of the United
States, and any territory that
might be acquired.
June IS, 1908-Death of "Blind
Tom" Thomas Green Bethune),
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YOUR BATTLE FOR PEACE AND BEAUTY

All the war and worry on the
front pages these days reminds us
even more fOrcibly of the beauty of
peace. Our own country Is blessed
ly at peace but how about the tur-
mOil within our own minds. The
peaceful woman is the beautiful
woman and the woman who is Sc
rene and relaxed Is lOvelier by far
than her hurried, haraSsed sister,
regardless of perfection of feature
or skin tone.
Relax One Hour a Day
The wise woman will set apart
one hour a day to relax completely
If she hopes to reach middle age
without unnecessary lines, wrinkles,
frOwnS-and crows feet. REGARDLESS
of the kind of life you lead, the type
of work you do, regardless of your
problems, financial, emotional or
purely imaginary, keep that one
hour sacred to complete relaxation
of mind and body. Stretch out on
your bed, or Just sit quietly back in
your easy chair with your feet
prOpped up and think about moth
ing. Don't plan your work for the
next day, or wonder what Johnny
could have meant when he said that,
or brood over the next months bills.
This is the hour sacred to beauty.
Day dream. if you like, or fall into
a light sleep but don't allow your
self to worry for one minute of the
sixty.
1t sounds easy, I know, to say not
to worry, but actually, when you
look back on the things you have
worried about in the past, didn't
most of them turn out much better
than you had hoped? From past ex-
perience, if you will stop and think
about 1t, you can see how utterly
absurd it was for you to lie awake
nights. tossing and wondering what
to do next, because when the time
comes things usually take care of
themselves, and worrying about
them in advance only makes you
look older and leaves you in such
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His Aged Nanny Speaks

And was it ages past, or was it
years ago, or was it yesterday
/ babe him fond farewell?
To me it seems vast eternity:
The long suspense, the deep
uncertainty,
The few brief words that filtered
thru to me,
Saying that all was well.
And in my quiet hours, and at my
work, and thru each anxious day
l prayed most constantly.
Bringing my heartaches to the
throne of God,
Tho, in my fancy, stark upon the
sod
Of France, l saw him dead and
felt Gods Christening rod.
My puny, faltering faith seemed
4OoG W
The flag of truce, the cease of
thunderous guns, the Armistice!
l cried with very joy.
And from the mud of France, the
shrapnel-
From trench and stencil and whine
of German shell,
From agonizing death-a living
hell,
Back to my arms he came. My boy!
A score of years have passed. Old
Glory proudly waves DER quiet
fields.
How sweet is peace.
The sleepless nights, the fearful
lethargy-
The wakeful days, the silent agony,
That took their toll and Slapped the
life of me
How sweet is peace.
Across the watery space that
brought these darker ones
Back to their mothers arms,
Again a Western Front
Belches it's hate, and men cry out
and die.
Again Democracy and Freedom"
is the cry.
And men must die.
But you, My Country, you have
broken faith with me and mine.
These were your hallowed words:
"To make the world safe for
Democracy
That Freedom may replace
Autocracy."
So long ago you promised these to
me.
Now will you call gain?-A.V.H.
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Whether we like it or not-Ne-
gro business is here to stay. The
Negro has awakened to the fact
that to secure better opportunities
he must create them-and business
offers him this opportunity. He has
learned that through business an
economic stability can be secured.
Many of US have not approved of
the management policy of many
Negro-owned enterprises, but at
the same time we will agree that
these policies are improving month
in and month out and are far bet
ter than years ago. There have
been failures-and there will be
more-but out of these failures will
come experience and with expert
ence will come success.
We must stop this trend of ad-
verse criticism that the NEGRO in
business does not know how to do
business" and start building pro-
gram that will defend rather than
criticise Negro business methods.
Dollar for dollar, the Negro in
business is doing far better job
than his competitor in other racial
groups. Then, too, he is offering
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Conducted by
ALBERT LOUIS HYPPS

Editors Note:
The author of this feature col
umn is the director of the Negro
Business Institute, a nOn-prOfit or
ganiZatiOn, devoted to the progress
of better Negro business. He has
held classes in craftsmanship and
advertising in New York City and
Washington, d. c., and has been
engaged in advertising and promo
ton for more than IL years. Read
ers desiring further advertising
and business promotion infOrma-
ton are invited to write to the Ne
gro Business Institute, 1908 Sew
enth Street N. W., Washington,
d. c. Enclose stamped. addressed
envelope for free reply.
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St. Paul to Have Community Council

all indications Council of Organi
cations Community Council of Negro Organizations In
cities these councils greatly the benefit entire
community.
hoped by this publication that ST. Paul civic atena
religious bodies will make the council worthwhile add
ton to community
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who comes to Phyllis Wheatley
should have acquired habits and
traits which would give him an adj
vantage over the boy or girl who
has not had contact with Phyllis
Wheatley. If this is not true, not
only should the settlement house
be concerned, but the community
should also be concerned.
The Auxiliary Drive offers an
opportunity for financial and
physical participation in your set
Element house. Join the Phyllis
Wheatley Auxiliary during the
drive. Participate in its activities
during the year.
Jack Poster,
Chairman Publicity,
PHYLLIS Wheatley Auxiliary.
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Editorial Notes and lettings

Charles Lnbegh labeled Naz when he told
reporters months that Geman air force powerful than
any other nation crazy all right just like fox!
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ST. Paul in having booster like
Lafayette Fields the druggist He's been booster and that
his great He's real
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blessed, should say 1.-THE right
word) people tell you how should done
your particular program M you successful they'll
try to say you arr lucky a crook
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Germany promised Leopold plenty
little than weeks fighting Or maybe the king could
his and children subjects shot down.
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When times good America is white mans country Whe
threatens it's "our" country!
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All of the charwarmng of big will
talking position and tell why the Minneapolis Auditorium
packed hear Wings Over Jordan"
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appreciate weeks edition
supporting advertisers mixed with those kind
go long way having every paper
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Hitler regime dealing with both
its subjects and other nations making with like making
peace with a mad dog!
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Riding St. Anthony felt rather proud
we'll lawns bossomng We had the feeling
Streets including portion Fourth Ave- &c. in Mime
apOs vacationers that in the Twin Cities it
tell outward of home the condition
people lived there We hope will always
be able say that about the Twin Cities
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however, that certain sections of both cities the land
lords guilty of neglect in refusing paint and fix
erty by Many homes especially in section
St. Paul not fit for hog to live in.
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Chairman Publicity,

Phyllis Wheatley Auxiliary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-16
ALSO RAID SCOTLAND
England Says Nazis Sent
Plunging To Earth AT
Rate OF A Minute
CROYDON IS BOMBED
Smash AT Detectives On
Thames; British Silent
About New Plane Trap

LONDON, Aug. 16.-(Fri'
day. (AP) -Britons dug
their dead and wounded
early today out Of the bomb
ruins of the biggest air at
tack in history, executed by
an armada of more than l.
900 German planes which
struck eight miles from the
heart of London and spread
destruction from the Scot
fish border to Lands End.
In the last dusk-hazed
fury of the fighting y%ester-
day, planes were reported
plunging in undertaking
death dives at a rate of one
a minute.
DTlClSH CldlIltS
The British total claim for
the day-144 German planes
to 81 British-dwarfed pre-
vious reports on successive
assaults since last Sunday.
Yesterdays fierce air siege
overshadowed all earlier mass
raids.
What the British losses
would amount to actually in
dead and wounded, splinter
ed homes and smashed
buildings remained obscure
despite communicates compil-
reports from cities from
the English channel to the
Sea.
Listings of deaths were
scattered and the ministry of
home security summed up
the assault with the COM
ment:
little success at a high
Tide Nears City
London echoed with the bandshee
vail of alarm sirens as the tide OF
.azi bombardment ripped close
about the sprawling city, heart of
an embattled empire.
Big dark dive-bombers screamed
down within a few hundred feet Of
the ground to dump tons Of explo-
at the Croydon airport in the
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-16
CALEDONIA PRISON
bikes THREATENED
Roanoke Pushes Out OF
Banks In Upper Reaches
To Set New Record

RALEIGH Aug. 15.-R-A huge
dyke at the Caledonia prison farm
was threatened tonight as the rain
swollen Roanoke river pushed out
of its banks in the upper reaches
to all-time-record flood levels.
Prisoners worked all afternoon
piling sandbags along the top Of
the nine-mile dyke, which prtects
the prison camps rich farm lands
from inundation. Livestock W a S
evacuated from the low-lands.
Official of the weather bureau
here predicted the river would rise
at least to 48 feet-1 fleet in flood
at Weldon by Saturday..
There is a possibility, they add
ed, that the rise may break the
previous record of 50.3 feet, estab-
lished in Weldon in March, 1912.
Caledonia is situated in Halifax
county, a few miles from Weldon.
Prison officials were said that
Continued on Page Five)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-16
BRITAIN SEEKS 50
|. S. DESTR0YERS
Offering To Lease Sites In
New World In Return
ForOld Warcraft

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-RA
Great Britain, seeking additional
weapons to combat the Nazis, was
reported today to be offering to
lease certain naval base sites in
the western hemisphere to tn e
United States in return for so or
more old ~destroyers.
These reports circulated in con-
gressional quarters as Senator Lee
CD-Okla) told the senate that
transfer of the vessels ought to be
made in the interest Of American
defense.
Lee, who visited the White House
during the day, argued that the
transfer could be made without
further congressional action, a
point said to have been involved in
the latest British appeal for de-
stroyers.
Usually reliable sources S a j d
they had been informed that the
British proposal had been trans
mitted to the White House and was
under study there.
They said it involved an offer by
the British to lease for 9 years
sites in British possessions in the
wetern hemiphere that would be
suitable for United States naval
and air bases to protect the Pana-
ma Canal and to guard this coun-
try against any invasion from the
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-16
FIVE STATES AFFECTED
Damage To Roads, Crops,
Factories, Communication
Facilities Great

ASHEVILLE, Aug. IS. - Up -
Swollen mountain streams receded
today, leaving at least 26 dead,
millions of dollars damage to prop
erty, crops and highways in five
states, while the ocean-ward sweep
of the muddy flood waters men
aced vast areas of fatlands.
While the inhabitants of the
mountain sections hit by the worst
inundation in years began to strug-
gle back to normal existence,
there was a general evacuation OF
homes in low-lying sections along
the lower reaches of the rampag-
ing streams.
Communications Cut Off
Communication was still cut off
or crippled in many of the noun
tain communities, but reports in
dictated at least Is persons were
drowned or killed In 1andslides.
There were reports of other cas-
ualties but they could not be con-
firmed.
The death toll by states:
North Carolina, II; Tennessee,
S; Virginia, 8; Georgia, 4. A re-
port from Boone, N. c., said that
at least ten lives were lost and
possibly a score of persons injured
nontin,1ed on Page Eleven; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-16
Naziis Claim
Vital British
|AreasBombed
Attack Presses Through
He'll OF Anti-Aircraft
Fire, Pursuit Planes
'9S BRITISH DOWNED
Invaders Scatter Bombs
Amid Vickers Armament
Works, Other Plants

BERLIN, Aug. IS. In Germ
ny threw the weight of her aerial
hosts directly at the great throb-
bling heart of Britain's world en-
pire late today as warplanes
British admitted Croydon airport
was bombed-and smashed hard
at the broad Tilbury wharves
which stretch down the Thames
from the capital.
The attack, pressed h o m e
through a veritable hell of anti
aircraft fire amid wheeling British
pursuit planes, was part of a sym
chronized onslaught upon all of
Britain's vital centers and up and
down her coasts from far north
east Scotland to extreme south
west England Wales, said DNB,
official German news agency.
Thames Attacked
EDNB did not say definitely that
London was bombed, but declared,
the entire Thames valley wit
messed the methodical, irresistible
German air attacks which threat
en- all military establishments with
destruction"
It first listed So British planes
destroyed as against four German
but later increased the figures, re-
spectively, to 8 and 2. German
filters reported they shot down five
balloons and put out of commits
sion eight planes on the ground.
(The British listed 144 German
and q British planes lost.)
The raiders scattered their
bombs amid the sprawling build
ings of the big ickers Armstrong
armament works at H e b b u r n
Wells; at Sherrness, Chatham and
Rochester, locations of navy yards
and arsenals; at the big eastern
port of Newcastle-on-Tyne; and at
the southeast "bridgeheads" of Do
yer and Folestone, the agency
said.
The airplane plants of Bristol
were threatened, and Wales, to the
southwest. got its share, said DNB.
Airports were a particular object
of attack, those at Hawkinge and
Lympne in the southeast S h o r e
area were scenes of a particularly
bitter battle with the British de-
tenders.
At Hawkinge alone, II British
planes shot down by tn e
(NoyknY,a1 IN pouo EivoN