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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-08-03

e. such popular community workers
as Oswald Thomas, Luke Bardouille.
John Santos and John Roberts of the
st. Vincent De Paul Society are assist
ing in the program this affair has
always found loads of children and
adults ready for a perfect day each
year, Get on board next Sunday
Grace Faulcon of the Cambridge CON-
munity Center and her crew are doing
a nice job with the Cambridge Nur
sery children at Camp Whispering
Willows, Canton, Mass. Miss Faul-
con has two councillors assisting her.
namely Miss Inez Collymore and Miss
Anna White, who have won the chill
dren over with their kindnesses
Miss Gertrude E. Smith, well known
school teacher and AKA member
really gave Mrs. Harriet G. Hall
swell write-up in last weeks GUAR
DIAN . Harriet C. is charming
person with heart of gold. May she
continue to have good health and
strength to carry on her good COM
munity work. . of course, we are not
really worried about Mrs. Halls
health as our good friend DR.. John
Hall is always on hand almost for
got this powerful lady has taken the
chairman's seat which she held few
years ago in Ward Mines Republican
Committee e.. DR.. Irving T. Gray -.
popular dentist and politician of Ward
Nine has cast his able hat into the
ring for a seat in the House of Repre-
sentatives. DR.. Gray who, beside
his private practise, is on the staff of
the Whittier st. Health Unit, has
helped many a worthy case in Boston
E. he is the only colored seeking the
Democratic nomination his cam
paign should go over the top =. on
the Republican side of Ward Mines
House of Representatives fence we
find Lawrence Banks, popular club
man, and William "Bill" Sparrow,
veteran tailor, and member of Ward
Nine Republican Committee out for
seat on Beacon Hill =. we hope at
later date these two strong Roxbury
men will get together, one to help the
other because both of you haven't got
a chance fighting against each other
when things get hot Scoop Jones
as usual will jump in the fight for the
best interest of the race Mrs.
Flossie Boykin, sister of Frank Stokes
of Westminster St., Roxbury, was a
weekend guest her brother
Frank was a very good host and Mrs.
Bernice likewise a charming hostess
as they showed off Boston =. we hear
more tales about the Lenox St. Hous-
ing Project than the officials in Wash
ington, D. c., know about . as soon
as we get the official figures for the
rooms and the other necessary data
it will be our pleasure to publish the
entire program with permission of
David Lane the manager E. see you
around :. Keep cool =. your friend
S. J.
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AZ TtntrH GhanDf
By ]. CARLISLE

The boy who writes home "Dear Dad
all IS well, having a wonderful time" is
probably anxiously awaiting train fare
home!-The ward committeeman who
met me on the street and told me he
resented my informal statements last
week is not looking for handout-be-
heve my word for that-he isn't talk
ing !-As times change, a glamour girl
will be defined as one who says no with
out emphasizing it with capital or
ending it with period We may be
invited to spend a short time in the
country. Have you ever accented such
an invitation. Well, with your kind
permission l will take you on such a
trip, where a former city friend has
gone native and brings you a pair of
overalls at the station. He greets you
Hello city slicker, you're just in time
for planting" and means just that
Realizing that city folk eat light meals
he will give you a snack for breakfast
10 slices of ham and as many eggs on
your plate with hot rolls and rich cof-
fee that almost make you envious. Your
vacation is enjoyed only at the dinner
table for these hail and hearty New
England farmers will work YOU to
death. With this surplus man power he
decides not only to do his planting but
to build an ell on his farmhouse, re
build his hen coop and a few minor
things like picking all the fruit in his
orchard. After you get through carry
ing well water, cleaning his barn and
spending most of the day in the field
you'll abstain from eating salads in the
future. All your fine city togs you had
such hard time pressing or preparing
for this vacation Of leisure you forgot
to unpack for after all you didn't have
the time for near shutdown when you
washed up and fell into a porch chair
homesick, exhausted and disguised he
drags you over every inch of his land
he saoeIS with pride as your feet saUeU!
Thus you cut your visit short; say, are
you glad to get back home to rest so at
the station as you board the train you
exclaim-"good-by Country slicker' y.
You no sooner arrive back home with
your aches and pains than you receive
a telegram from your New England
farmer friend inviting you to spend the
next summer with him. Yet the same
farmer thinks we pay a high price for
food in the city!
As times change, you may even
bounce a child upon your knee; be it a
sunny girl or a sonny boy remind the
youngster that the AKA. Garden Par
ty holds pleasant thrills for visitors N
Beantowners alike.-'Tis fact that it
is becoming very difficult to distinguish
the difference in ladies summer play
togs-and bed things 1T appears that
the weaker sex is becoming stronger
and stronger, why only yesterday wiley
was contented to nestle in the restful
security of hubby's arms, but with this
new deal idea times have changed for
now WHEY is instrumental in protect
ing hubby from a draft!
AS Times Change the Roxbury Con-
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LET'S GOSSIP
WITH
SCOOP" JONES

CAMP VISITORS ATTENTION
we have been requested by camp off
Gals to pass on word to you camp
visitors and parents of campers
if you see a child homesick, please do
not interfere to the extent of CARRYING
news back to the parent if YOU
think someone else's child is home
sick and it worries you, kindly consult
the officials in charge of the camp:
don't take news of that nature back
to the parents as it upsets them, and
by the time they make a special trip
to the camp, 80 cases out of a 100 the
child will be found having a grand
time forgetting all about home; and
the parents then feel that they have
been misinformed &. in other words,
mind your own business; and if you
must worry about child make sure
it's your own PARENTS!-Yo
send your children to camp to enjoy
season of fresh air, sunshine, learn
how to be able to take care of them
selves and yet have a full program of
fun as well as educational events o..
in Massachusetts as in other states we
have a state law in regard to food,
toilet necessities, disqualification, etc.
... so YOU have no cause to worry in
that field because all of our camps
meet those qualifications :. we know
that e. we have excellent counsellor
ship consisting mostly of college stu
dents and graduates =. beautiful
estates, nothing to worry about
help US to build up our camps, not
destroy them :. let's make our chill
dren compounded parents should
only visit a child once in two weeks.
your child will be perfectly happy Just
as soon as he gets the camp-swing .
nothing can be done to help child
when parents and outsiders butt in
. camps are no reform schools -.
do you expect camp officials to
straighten out a child which you can't
handle all year around? :. you must
also be made to understand that camp
life wouldn't be camp life if the rooms
We're planned like the Ritz Plaza and
the meals served on gold plates in
some cases we have found the food
and beds and toilets the children have
at their services in camp are far bet
ter than they enjoy at home; yet par
ents of these children will criticize the
camp when they should be very CRATE
full that their children have had the
opportunity to enjoy something bet
ter than they have to offer let's
pull together as we make our last
round for the summer and make this
month"; the month of August, ban
nar one, by cooperating with our camp
officials =. and if you can't say any
thing good about camp, please don't
say ANYTHING.
SOCIAL ROUNDS AND POLITICS
=. Sunday, August II will find plenty
of buses parked in front of the Blessed
Sacrament Mission, Vernon st., Rox-
bury, at YOUR service enroute to Salem
Willows for picnic which promises to
be "Tops" this picnic will be the
first event since Father Richard
Farley returned from his vacation
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sumers Cooperative at 43 Rutland So.
("Roceo" to you) will be given the
credit it deserves. Few people know
that last year this organization sent a
group Of its members to Mass. State
College for a summer school course in
an effort to further educate them on the
highlghts of cooperation while this
year they have just sent two of its Off
GERS to this college to represent Rocco
at a group Of District Conferences.
Upon such a solid foundation based
on education, growth and success are
assured-carry on Rocco
We will keep an eye on our aspirants
for political Office, now, it is said that
three have field nomination papers in
Boston-one is apparently a go-getter
the second is tailor made for politics
and the third has pep, pull and per-
.sonality. It is encouraging to hear that
a popular democratic young man has
taken a definite step on the political
ladder. 1t is fact that this same young
fellow has been prescribing a forward
step and that sort of thing as a short
cut to success for young men so now
that he has picked up the torch and
is ready for action, We realize that ac-
lions do speak louder than words!
As times change, we will continue to
have the meanest of thieves who spec
ialize in robbing poor boxes, good sa-
maritans, blind, crippled and aged per-
sons or even to take candy from babies
so it is small wonder that two thieves
relieved a young bootblack of So after
he finished backing their shoes. Yes,
when the little chap started to dust
their shoes these rascals were plotting
to dust him off, while the boy was black
ing their shoes they were backing their
hearts, and after the bootblack worked
diligently for half an hour on the two
pairs of shoes he earned his reward,
that was the payoff. In ending, let me
say some day some one will discover
some poison that will destroy all Rats!
AS times change, the name of Father
Divine will be identified with "Peace,
this is truly wonderful" Word now
comes that a proposal by Father Divine
that the q. S. buy the other American
nations, if necessary and unit the west
ern hemisphere into one democracy was
one of a number of petitions received
by the Senate and referred to commit
tees. This proposal was suggested as
a national and international defence
for peace. Appended was a reminder
that Father Divine urges immediate
passage of the anti-lynching bill. Now
this writer knows very little about
Father Divine yet feels that as times
change his influence will be felt, his
mysteries will deepen ten fold and he
will by that time have rendered services
to a nation that may be truly wonder
full. Boston should give him the name
of Educator" for the majority of our
visiting students depend upon his well
balanced meals priced at a nominal fee,
for confdentially, the majority of our
students must maintain rigid economic
standards that staggers on the border
line of privation. All this and more
while they cram book knowledge, then
the professional failures who peek
around the corner and run up the stairs
to get meal (which hard times have
made them think is Divine to them
he is not only "Godsend" but a good
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-08-03
MASSACRE DAY BILL
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

In the YearOn Thousand Nine Hundred and ThiryTwo
Deaths of Cspus Atuck Samuel Maverick
ames Caldwell, Samuel Gray and Patrick Carr.
by authority of the folows
hereby amended by inserting
twelve c. inserted by chapter one hundred and fytree of the acts
of the the following seclon-
shall annually proclamation calling
observance March fifth the anniversary the Boston Massacre
Attacks, American of African
Rave Caldwell Samuel Gray and Patrick deaths
the first martyrs in the Of American independence
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This is the second and final install
ment that this writer is submitting for
Paul Jordan who is trying to spend a
kings ransom to enjoy the Worlds
Fair. The bond Of fellowship among
newspaper men and women is made
manifest by the "Press Club Of Bos-
tom. This gesture on the part of
Uncle Paul to invite a columnist from
rival paper to carry on in his abb
sence is indeed beautiful gesture. We
sincerely hope there will be more of
this cooperation shown as times
change.
You know when Uncle Paul was
wearing Elton suits he started writing
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adore
Oh summer robed in flowers Of rainbow
hue
Blessed in moonlight and its crystal
dew.
Say, the operator insists "Nickel
please" so before 1 hang up let me po-
litely say goodbye to Uncle Paul and
to you, but before going let me remind
you not to be too much concerned over
this sudden rush by youngsters to OBJ
tain marriage licenses from City Hall.
Always remember
IF the eyes adore it
Mems hands implore it
The lover will marry it
just to insure it
As Times Change.
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fatheri

father
As times change, we should read
more during our leisure time-you
know, no other invention Of man has
accomplished as much as printed books
in annihilating the limitations of the
physical world; why books enable us
to reach back over the centuries and
share the thought Of one who lived in
another world than our own and thus
to make him our friend, far nearer
than some whom we meet in the street.
Just about this time I usually get
poetical so list to this verse. You may
call it foolish but I call it summer
Oh summer breeze that charms the en-
erald shore
Oh summer bringing fruits we all
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a social column therefore it would be
folly on my part to attempt one so
must rely upon my own style.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-11-21

ling point until it was braced,
on Sunday. Hats were lifted here
and there and carried away. Ar
thur Frazier, popular WPA time
keeper was among those who SUI
fered loss as to his headgear.
Rev. Hoyt Wood, pastor of the
West Jefferson Methodist church
preached a very effective sermon
on the church and while he was
stressing the Importance of keep
ing the doors of the church open,
the wind very forcefully opened
them.
The Baptist church which has
recently installed a new heating
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-11-21
Nazis Get Free
Hand From Reds

Berlin. Vyacheslaff Molotoff
and Adolf Hitler have fixed So
Wet Russia's sphere of interest in
the authoritarian new order for
Europe, Africa and Asia, sources
usually in the know asserted last
Friday after the Russians depar-
ture for home.
Officially, the Hitler-Molotoff
talks led to mutual accord on all
important questions of interest to
Germany and the U. S. S. R." But
neither the questions nor the de-
cisions were listed.
Unofficial but reliable sources
left no doubt they were firmly
convinced Russia is ranging her
self on the side of the Rome-Ber-
lin-Tokyo axis.
In general terms, they added,
the Russian "Grossraum"-or vast
area of domination-lies between
Japan's Far-Eastern zone of dom
nance and Europe and Africa,
which the Rome-Berlin Axis has
allotted to itself.
Two days of talks in Berlin,
including long hours with Fueh-
rer Hitler, sufficed to bring
agreement on what reliable in
formants said was a basis of
strictly business give-and-take. "
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

to a press meeting, and just be-
yond Glendale Springs we found
no snow! A famous Carolina
moon, so much sung about, came
over the mountain and by the
time we had reached Mr.. Rhodes
town, no trace of the weather and
temperature we had left behind
was to be found. Winter has a
way of favoring West jefferson!
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Spears Barlow the faculty. We
are predicting it is going to be
success. Certain such projects are
valuable training for the students.
Some several years ago we re-
ceived our start on such a paper
and are happy that we did not
stop with that. Perhaps our read
ers think differently?
The Winds Came
West Jefferson experienced
some of it's typical winds over the
week end. Shingles were lifted
from roofs here and there. And
the telephone and power line pole
near Dean McMillan's house
swayed dangerously near the fall
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*Ashe County NYA Projects
Showing Splendid Results
Boys Have Recently Com
pleted More That $55O.W
Worth Of School Equipment

Ashe county is receiving dual
benefits from NYA which is now
employing around so boys and
employing about go boys and girls
many of whom are already rend-
ering valuable service to the
county.
During the months of Septem-
Der and October, the boys in the
woodworking shop completed
school furniture and equipment
which would have cost the coun-
ty more than $55O.OO Among the
other projects which the girls are
now working on is the making OF
24O mattress ticks in cooperation
with FSA.
The NYA home service project
for girls, located in the Allen
house at West Jefferson is spon-
sored by FSA. It has "a girls
working working on the home
practice center and have been
given an increased quota this
month, of six, making total OF
80 to be employed.
These girls have converted a
dwelling house into a working
center and are divided into two
groups, which work alternately
for a two-week's period. The
girls are being trained for future
employment as well as for bet
ter housewives. In addition to the
mattress tick sewing project now
being carried out, other garments
are being made, while some OF
these girls are specializing in
cooking and the serving of meals
under the direction of Mrs. Jes-
sic. Dow Summey.
During the past summer the
girls made a garden, carried out
a canning project, planned and
decorated the house and kept the
lawn. There are a number OF
NYA girls who are doing clerical
work in the county health dept,
Welfare dept, Farm Security and
other offices.
The boys woodworking project
at Crumpler which is under the
direction of Mr.. George Duvall
has a modern shop where furni-
ture and other equipment can be
built. The boys have just COM
pleted lunch room equipment for
the Baldwin Graded school, and
Elkland high school, and are now
working on similar equipment
for the Riverview high school.
They have recently completed
much useful class room equip
ment for the Nathan's Creek and
Virginia-Carolina high schools.
They are also now building cab
inets, tables and other equip
ment for the kitchen of the COM
rnunity building. There are
around 80 boys employed in this
shop.
Mrs. Thelma Dent who has
successfully served as County
supervisor of NYA has recently
resigned to accept a position else
where. Jaunita Tucker who has
been Mrs. Dents assistant, is in
charge of the work until per-
manent appointment will be
made.
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Nathan's Greek
Teams Are Good

The Nathan's Creek boys and
girls basketball teams are excep-
tionally strong this season and
may be the winners Of the coun-
ty, judging by preliminary games
played thus far.
They have defeated Piney
Creek and West jefferson and
meet Piney Creek again tonight.
Dale Atwood is coach of the girls
and James Miller has the boys.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-11-21

Mrs. Esta Davis Rhodes, who
has been spending several days
here with her aunt and uncle, Mr..
and Mrs. P. G. Wright, returned
to Baltimore, Friday night.
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Domestic Relations

Now that everyone is concer-
ned with world conditions, less
thought is being given to domes-
tic affairs, but when they really
come close home they are worth
stopping to think about. We don't
mean to be a Walter Winchell or
a harbinger of bad news, but we
heard something around Jeffer-
son the other day about a very
prominent man which in one
sense of the word is rather start
ling. The case is not ready to
come to light as yet and we
would not like to be called to ac-
count for statements we are max
ing, but we heard some pretty
definite rumors that this man
may be tried for non-support.
You can expect to hear more
about this in the future, so don't
say you were not fore-warned.
Considering everything we be-
lieve this trial will attract wide
spread attention too.
More Doubles Again
Mrs. Robert Edwards, of Crum-
pier, has brought in twin white
walnut which she says is very I'M
usual. This is now on display in
the window of the Skyland Post.
Mrs. Edwards reports that they
have a good crop of both black
and white walnuts this year and
will have some to sell as we'll as
sufficient for their own use.
A New Paper
The plans are now in the max
ing for a school, paper for West
Jefferson high school. Nena Bell
Barr, talented daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Basil D. Barr is to be
the editor and Mrs. Elizabeth
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Ashe has the distinction of be-
ing different in many ways, par
ticularly in the way of weather.
Friday John Rhodes called his
home in North Wilkesboro and
found that the sun was shining
and that the weather was not un-
usually cold. Friday night, we left
here in a blizzard and journeyed
to North Wilkesboro with others,
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How sound are you from the
standpoint of a doctor? Thou
sands will soon find out when
they are examined for selective
military service. Feet, teeth and
eyes are apt to come in for crit
icis1n. We heard of a dr3ftee
while begging examined by doc
tor, stated that he had always had
weak eyes. The doctor wanted to
find out just how true this was
and placed a chart before his
patient. 'How many lines can
you read on that chart" he said.
The draftee replied" Whist
chart?"
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unit discovered that it was SUI
ficient to make it hot for them
even when the wind did it's worst,
or perhaps its best, to ventilate
every place here on Sunday.
Weather Here and There
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ASHE COUNTY

is the air-conditioned section Of
North Carolina whose altitude
ranges from 5000 to $500 feet
above sea level. twenty-five miles
Of the PARKWAY run through
the county.
Glacier County chief., 1940-06-07
HOW. e ). SEW
% Ruth Wyeh Spears osp

happen when a clever young lady
IS bent upon bringing color into
her life. The chair has been paint
ed q pale turquoise blue, and the
seat cushion and back are covered
with an inexpensive chintz in tur-
quoise; cherry red; primrose yell
low and deep green, with red bias
bindings.
I wish every reader interested
In choosing colors for her home
might have a copy Of my Book 4.
1t contains an illustrated rule for
making a room color plan, based
on the colors in a picture; q rug;
a vase; or piece Of drapery ma
terial with lovely colorings. The
rule is SO clear and easily UNDER
stood that I am sure every reader
Of these weekly articles would be
delighted to have 4 copy. To get
your. copy, send 10 cents in coin
and ask for Book 4. Address: