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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-12-06
Walter White
Passes Through
Twin Cities

Walter White of N. Y, secretary
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
passed through the Twin Cities
Monday to change planes en- route
east from the West Coast where
he had been filling speaking en-
gagements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-06
P. (. STUDIES ARE
 NOW AVAILABLE
Phyicians of State Are Afforded Excellent Op=
 pOrtunities

New Haven, Dec. 6-Physicians of Connecticut have been offered the opportunity to pursue postgraduate studies in medical problems arising in industry and nutrition problems. Two courses commencing after the holidays and extending through the first part of next year will be given jointly by the Connecticut State Medical society and the Yale School of Medicine. It is the most extensive medical postgraduate program that has been made in the state.
 The preparedness effort of the nation has called for an expansion of Connecticut industry. With this expansion have come new labor re- quirements and the use of new pro- cesses which present new health problems for the worker. The course in industrial medicine is provided to train Connecticut physicians to meet these new problems. Weekly lectures, clinics and seminars will be held to consider such subjects as factory ventilation, diseases due to dust, skin diseases in industry, poisoning by solvents, lead and other metallic poisoning and heart dis ease in industry. Well known figures in these fields will give the courses including Professor c. E.-A. Wins low; Doctor Leonard Greenberg, chief of the Bureau of Industrial Hygiene, labor department, state of New Yorw; Albert s. Gray, director of the Bureau of Occupational Dis- eases, Connecticut State Department of Health; and medical consultants to large industrial plants.
 One of the recent great advances of medical science is the increased knowledge of diseases of nutrition and these will be covered in the sec ond series of courses. This course will present consideration of ade- quate and balanced diets for chil- dren, for workers in speded-up in dustry and proper diets in various diseases. The classes will be given by leaders in the various fields in- cluding Doctors c. N. H. Long, John P. Peters and Professor George R. Cowgirl of the Yale faculty; w. B. Castle of the Harvard Medical school; Fuller Albright, assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Med ical school: and Norman H. Jolliffe, professor of medicine at New York university.
 Facilities for holding this post graduate instruction have been made available by the Yale Medical school and the classes will start on January g.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-06
"'ALetter To Boys And Girls
 Across The Ocean"
(NEA Telephoto)
BY MADAME CHANG KAI-SHEK
 Founder Life Saving Committee In China)

dirty and very i'll. But by and by people in distant cities heard of their plight :. went to the places where the war was going on to col- lect those who were lost and alone and bring them back to homes in the mountains where they could be taken care of"
 And that is only small part of what Mime. Chiang writes in her Letter"
 Charles V. vickrey, president of The Golden Rule Foundation, 60 East Forty-second street, New York, said copies of Madame Chiang's Letter to the Boys and Girls of America" would be supplied at 10 cents each covering the cost of postage and mailing.
 "Any additional sums which may be contributed as a result of read- ing the book will be forwarded at once to assist Mime. Chiang and her ife-saving committees in caring for the orphans and other refugees" he added.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-06
BADMINTON FINALS
 AT Y SUNDAY P. M.

Women's and mems badminton finals and mixed doubles will be played at the YMCA Sunday night at ' o'clock.
 Contestants in Class c and the beginners group were admitted t. the finals in the women's elimina- ton tournament last night.
 Those in Class c climbing into the finals are Doris Nelson, Mrs. Kay Van Riper, Marjorie Barbour and Peggy Wesson. In the novice group Julia Pelosi, Irene Watts, Mrs. Rosalie Nelson and Mrs. Frances Manning were advanced into the finals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-06
''Exchange Professor"
 Visits At Central Y
John MCCmdy of Nv Haven Participates in Discussion
 With Herbert Smith and Dr. Charles L. Larkin

General Secretary John R. Mo- CJirdy of the New Haven r. M. c. A. was guest of the Central Y yester- day noon at a meeting of the board of directors. The following were present: Dr. Charles l.. Larkin, who presided; Directors John B. Goss, Orton P. Camp, E. Rowland Chase, Barlow L. Heminway, Chase Kimball, c. Raymond Gannung, Ed win H. Jones, Levi Wilcox, Herbert w. Coe, Dr. Edward Kirschbaum, John E. Monagan, Louis Schneer, General Secretary Herbert s. Smith, Miss Margaret Balbraith, president of the Young Women's Council; Raymond Ouimet, president of the North End Branch Council; and Kenneth Byrne, president of the lily Council.
 Following the State recommenda- tion that each local Y. M. c. A. in- vite Q visitor, Secretary McCurdy was in Waterbury in the nature of an "exchs nge professor" He parti- c1pated il discussion concerning "The Future of the Y. M. c. A. and the Recommendations of the Recent Meeting of the Y. M. c. A. National Council at Pittsburgh" General Sec retary Herbert A. Smith, President Larkin and others participated in the discussion.
 The Y. M. 0. A. was described as "a world wide fellowship of men and boys (and now young women, tool united by common loyalty to Christ in building Christian person. ality and Christian society,""
 The r is not local organization in Waterbury. It is a world move ment established in 70 nations with $500 local Y. M. 0. As. Its strength is that each local Y. is independent and democratic but that they choose to unite and cooperate in world Christian brotherhood.
 The five organizational units are: l. The Local Y. M. c. As; 2. State Committees; 3. National Council; 4. International Y. M. c. A.; 5. The Y Colleges and Training Agencies.
 The National Council names four unacceptable obligations: 1. To strengthen the program to meet the needs of Youth today; 2. To edu- cate for Christian citizenship and Democracy; 3. To make the Y. M c. A. program available to young men in war service; 4. To serve pris- oners of war on both sides of the line.
 The world crisis has put great demands on the Y. M. c. A. in the 70 nations in which it serves. The Y. M. c. As of the United States have 50 representatives who are giv-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-06

ing leadership to the Y. M. c. As in 32 less-favored nations. They set up indigenous, self-governing units manned by native secretaries whom they trained. Tn addition to the peace time program the Y. M. c. A. around the world is actively engaged in war work.
 Dr. John R. Mott and other prominent Americans represent the United States in a Worlds Y. M. c. A. Committee which is serving the 3,000,000 young men back of the barbed wier entanglements as pris- oners of war. Each of the beligerants has given the Y. M. c. A. a free hand to serve it's prisoners, know | ing that this guarantees Christian service for their own young men who are prisoners.
 President Larkin reported on meeting of Presidents and General Secretaries which he and Secretary Smith recently attended in New Ha- ven. The Waterbury Board, yester- day, voted approval of a plan of joint financing of National and State Y. M. c. A. Committees as be- ing step toward closer cooperation and simplicity of organization. It was stated that while the Y. M. c. A. has national and international debts that its general agencies are economically managed as is shown by the small percentage asked for their maintenance.
 The report stated that failure of local Y. M. c. As to cooperate with the general agencies which they cre- ated, would procure state of con- fusion and disunity. The local Y's which unite with others in sup porting the broad Christian interest of the youth in the nation and in the world are themselves blessed because all that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-06
100 COUPLES AT
 COP DINNER DANCE

One hundred couples attended the dinner dance of the Wolcott Re- publican league last night at the Hopper Kettle on Meriden road William Ogden, toastmaster, intro duced a number of prominent Re- publicans, but there were no speeches.
 A floor show featured the enter tainment program. Music for danc- ing was provided by Stuart Will Hams and his orchestra.
 Raymond w. Leavenworth was chairman of the arrangements com- mittee, assisted by John McKenna, George Ranslow, Frederick Dietz and Albert Lariviere.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-06
ANNUAL SUPPER
 WELL ATTENDED

The second annual spaghetti SUD- per of the Women's Auxiliary of the Church of Our Lady Of Louro os was attended by 600 persons yes- terday afternoon and evening ir the parish hall. The new kitcnen, aG- jacent to the hall, was used for the first time, and proved great success in facilitating servlce for the large number attending.
 The supper was arranged by a committee headed by Mrs. Anra Hadden, general chairman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-06
NEW HAVEN CHOIR
 HERE LAST NIGHT

More than 100 persons last night heard the Curtis Salisbury choir, of New Haven, at the Grace Baptist church. The program included spirituals, anthems and Chris mas carols. The program was sponsored by the Young Peoples Union of the church.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-06
DEW sPOILs LAMPS

In the manufacture Of on in. candescent lamps, infinite care is required, ard the moisture of Q single drop of dew is sufficient to cause early blackening Of B0O,000 lamps.
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25

THIS chair, now so smart in it's
= sateen cover, button tufting
and moss fringe trimming, barely
escaped the trash burner. Someone
suggested it might be padded and
covered. Sis had an idea. Why not
tuft it? By pushing a long darn
ing needle back and forth through
the cover, padding and openings
in the wicker? She had been
wanting a tufted chair, so work
began at once.
The sagging arm rest, maya
zine holder and frayed-out wicker
around the legs were removed.
The chair was padded and COW
cred, as shown, and a new seat
cushion was added. The tufting
was done by sewing through tight
ly with heavy carpet thread; add
ing a button on each side of the
stitch.
NOTE: Detailed directions for
changing an old iron bed into the
latest style are given in Mrs.
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25
POLITICAL CHAFF.

New England, New York and New
Jersey G. o. P. leaders are receiv-
ing letters from Midwestern col
leagues warning that to win the farm
vote the party platform must con-
tain a farm plank similar to that
proposed in the recent Glenn Frank
report. The Iowa state central Re-
publican committee thought so high
ly of the Frank plank that it is cir
cularizing a speech by A. M. Piper,
of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil,
lauding the suggestions in it. 4.
One of the latest to finally climb
aboard the Townsend old-age pen
sion wagon is West Virginia's buck
toothed Sen. Rush Holt, who faces
a tough reelection fight this year.
Holt will be one of the guest speak
ers at the Townsend convention in
St. Louis Asked by a newsman
how he kept up his grilling cam
paign pace, Tom Dewey replied with
a grin, you've got to love it." =.
Harry Sauthoff, former Wisconsin
congressman and veteran LaFollette
leader, will shortly toss his hat into
the ring as Progressive candidate
against Republican Gov. Julius He'll.
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25
The Answers

l. The temporary chairman.
2. Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes,
who substituted lemonade for
wines at the White House.
8. The bark is an artificial de-
velopment. After becoming domes-
ticated dogs began barking.
4. No, it is more directly related
to Japanese, Turkish and Mongo-
liam.
S. Moonglades.
6. 1t is believed to be Oraibi,
Ariz., an Indian village in exist
ence since 1870.
z. The weather bureau says it
has no record of true rain falling
from a clear sky.
8. The subtrahend.
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25
Hsk Me Nnother
q A General Quiz
The Questions

1. What official of a national
political convention is called the
keynoter?
2. What First Lady was re-
ferred to as Lemonade Lucy?
3. Is the bark of the dog natural
or development?
4. Is the Finnish language a
Scandinavian tongue?
5. What are the reflections on
water made by moonlight called?
6. What is the oldest continuous
ly inhabited community in the
United States?
Z. Is it possible to have rain
when there are no clouds in the
sky?
8. In subtraction, what is the
number to be subtracted called?
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25
.AMERICANISTS'

The most cockeyed reaction to the
outburst in Scandinavia is that it
sets the "isolationists' back on their
heels. It doesn't even bear on the
question.
I hate sloganeering labels, yet I
would rather be called an "Ameri-
canist" than an ''isolationist"
though l sincerely believe that they
are the same thing and, if they are,
whats in a name?"
My suggestion is addressed to the
amateur military kibitzers who in
sist in our taking partners in this
dance of death and who call people
of my opinion "isolationists" be-
cause they believe in arming our
own dugout to whatever extent is
necessary and staying in it.
My suggestion is that these people
proudly label themselves "interven-
tionists' and, since they glory in
their opinions, be proud of the de-
scriptive title which far more aptly
distinguishes them than the word
'sisolationist' describes our train of
thought.
It is absolutely fair to label them
as ''interventionists," but maybe it
isn't fair without distinguishing be-
tween two clear classes of them. One
group presses for American inter-
vention on purely idealistic grounds.
They are the do-gooders. They want
to send other people or other moth
er's sons or other peoples money
into this bloody shambles to main
tain "decency" on earth.
Even that statement might, on the
surface, seem to carry an element
of unfairness. Some of them are
willing to embark themselves and
their own sons on such crusade.
But whatever unfairness springs
from this is only superficial. There
is ample opportunity for this kind
to do this right now. All they have
to do is to go across the Canadian
border and enlist.
But most do-gooders and "great
liberals" are not considering per-
sonal sacrifice. They get, if they do
not seek, the crown of public ap-
proval of their bleeding hearts with
out bearing any cross or personal
sacrifice to achieve it. They want
to make government do (which
means to make everybody do it
whether agreeable or not.
Seizing Denmark doesn't get the
Germans any closer by air to OBJ
jectives in Britain than she is al
ready but a seizure of Bergen in
Norway would. If this push had
been toward Holland, its object
would have been much clearer. Air
bases in Holland would threaten the
whole west coast of England. But
this move to the north does not OF
itself threaten Holland.
Germany with superior land and
air force can probably afford a
Scandinavian expeditionary force
better than the allies can.
It is short-sighted to say that the
British sacrifice no neutral lives in
confscating neutral rights. They
would if it suited their purposes to
do so. What were the British mines
planted off Narvik in Norwegian wa
ters-life-saving mines? And what
if our clippers at Bermuda had re-
sisted violation of their mails or our
merchant ships resisted or tried to
escape British hi-jacking in the At
lantic or at Gibraltar? 1t is just
like saying that a bandit spared
your life because when he pointed a
gun at you and you gave him your
pocket book, he didn't shoot you.
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25
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THE NEW WAR

It is too early to begin drawing
either military or political conclu-
sions from the sudden outburst Of
action in Scandinavia. It was not
anticipated in the writings of the
military experts that saw, but that
the action taken by both sides had
been carefully planned and pre-
pared for is obvious.
You can't block up the territorial
waters of neutral by mine fields
in three separate areas, the extreme
two of which are 500 miles apart,
without plenty of preparation-or do
it in day. You can't launch such
an assault as has been made on Den
mark and Norway any more rapidly.
It is curious that the allies would
have so clearly invaded Norway's
neutrality on the exterior route when
the disappearance of ice on the in
terror route will so soon make that
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25
Government Studies Results of Food Stamp Plan

WASHINGTON. - Administration
officials are studying operation of
the food stamp plan as an outstand-
ing example of successful business
government cooperation in dealing
with major national problem.
1t is the first large-scale business
and government cooperative effort
in the merchandising field since col
lapse of the NRA. The hullabaloo
that accompanied that Inflated ad-
venture has been purposely avoided.
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25
Scented Divorce

In 100 an act was passed by
parliament which laid down that
any woman, whatever her age and
whether she be married, single or
a widow, who by the use of per-
fume, cosmetics, paint, false
teeth, wigs, iron corsets, padded
bust and hips, or high-heeled
shoes, inveigles a male subject
of his majesty into marriage, shall
be guilty of having broken the law
which prohibits the practicing of
witchcraft and other arts of black
magic, and any such marriage
will be counted for null and void.
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25

The basis for cooperation in the
food stamp plan is fundamentally
different from that in the NRA. The
stamp plan provides minimum of
government regulation and maxi
mum of freedom for business.
1t was year ago this month that
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace announced tentative plans
for a two-price system by which
relief clients would be sold surplus
foods at lower price than charged
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25
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DIPLOMATIC TWIST

WASHINGTON.-Fate has way
of playing pranks with the most
carefully laid plans of diplomacy,
and it has given two queer twists
to Roosevelt's diplomatic appoint
mentS.
One was when he thought he was
putting 70-year-old Wilbur j. Carr
on the shelf by making him min
lister to the then secluded country
of Czecho Slovakia, but found in
stead that he had sent Carr to the
hottest hot spot in Europe.
The other was when he sent Mrs.
j. Borden Hartman to the peace
full and obscure capital of Norway,
where lady diplomat could make
few mistakes, but recent events find
Daisy in the middle of the war zone
and enjoying it.
Furthermore, and according to a
state department which is definitely
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25

others where the plan is in force.
The announcement came as no
surprise to food merchants. For
weeks he had been discussing the
idea with them and working with
their leaders in formulating major
provisions of the plan. Business
contributed to the forming of the
plan and approved it before Wallace
announced it publicly.
Active, practical business men
have been consulted and have
agreed to every major development
In the plan during the last year.
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25
Scrambled Dinner Parties.

Daisy" whose real name is Flor
ence Jaffray Hartman, became IA
nous during the Harding, Coolidge
and Hoover administrations as a
lone Democrat who lived only for
the pleasure of batting the reigning
Republicans. She made them like it..
Her deliciously scrambled dinner
parties became legendary. She in
vited naive and unsuspecting Repub-
icans, placed them beside such ra-
pier debaters as Sen. Tom Walsh,
Sen. Burton Wheeler and Charley
Nicholson, then after dinner, pushed
back the chairs and made them go
to if.
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25
Will Rogers.

Will Rogers has been denoted.
His statue no longer. stands in the
rotunda of the Capitol.
A few days ago the statue was
moved out of the rotunda, and was
not even given space in the ada
cent Statuary hall.
In this hall, where only one figure
is admitted from each state, Rog-
ers was second conner to Oklaho-
mas famous Indian, Sequoia, in
ventor of the Cherokee alphabet.
Rogers was placed in a corner in
the narrow hallway leading to the
house wing. He has not lost his
smile and his slouch, but he has
lost the center of the stage.
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25

Spears Book No. 8; also how to
make "The Rug That Grew Up
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Don't delay in sending name and
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The Ely miner., 1940-04-25

prejudiced against lady diplomats,
Mrs. Hartman is doing an excellent
JOHN fact, a much better job than
some of our other ministers pleni-
potentiary.
Mrs. Hartman also is 70 years
old, though few people who have
ever watched her tireless energy
would ever guess it. In those 70
years she has seen more riders
come and go on the Washington mer-
ry-go-round than almost any other
dowager of capital society.
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25
She Fought Roosevelt.

It was a political paradox that
having kept Democratic enthusiasm
flaming during the lean and hungry
years from Harding to Hoover, Mrs.
Hartman at first should have been
unrewarded by the Roosevelt ad-
ministration.
There was an interesting reason
for this. Daisy had been an ardent
opponent of Franklin D. Roosevelt
before the 1882 convention. She had
worked vigorously for Newton D.
Baker, and led a faction of the Dis
trict of Columbia delegation in vot-
ing against Roosevelt at Chicago.
So when Roosevelt adopted the
policy of awarding his 'B. c." (Be-
fore Chicago) friends, Daisy was out
of luck. She remained out of luck
for five years, despite many efforts
by powerful friends to win her an
appointment in the Roosevelt fold.
Finally, thanks to the persuasive
influence of Sumner Welles, Roose-
velt relented. Daisy Hartman was
appointed Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Norway
"a quiet and unimportant post to
which it was considered safe to send
a woman.
The Ely miner., 1940-04-25

IN OSLO AIR RAID SHELTER
THE rights of neutrals are only
,Uhat they have the strength to
make them."
mine-sowing activity superduous.
There must have been another rea-
son.
In other words, while both prepa-
rations were kept secret from the
world, they were not kept secret
from either belligerent to prevent
the other from knowing and acting
instantly upon their revelation.
It is too early to blame Denmark
for not resisting Hitler's "protec-
tive" invasion. On the face of cur
rent reports, she could only have
crucified her country-as Finland
and Poland did.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-07-20
Whitaker News
BY Wanda Smith

Miss Henrietta Bryant, OF Detroit
spent Monday. Tuesday and We'd
nesdav with her grandparents. Mr..
and Mrs. George Bryant. On Tues
day the Bryant family. accom-
panied by Fern Carter. motored TO
Howell 10 visit Geraldine Bryant.
Last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Ledford and Mrs. Carrie Carter at
tended the Rally Day service at
Brown Chapel church In Ypsilanti.
Mr. and Mrs. John Andersen.
Edith Anderson and Edna Patton OF
Detroit. and Louis Anderson OF
TuskeEee. Alabama were Fourth OF
July weekend guests at the Beas-
~ home
Mrs susie Byars has al her house
guest. her sister. Mrs. Butler Of
Wisconsin.
The Rev A. Knowles, pastor Of
Campbell Chapel church. was the
speaker al the second Community
service Of the season. AT Lincoln
school His theme was Follow M. .
Mrs Glen Ford returned to Ford
hospital for check up last week.
We are wishing for her complete
recovery.
Miss Nora Lee Thompson Of De-
iroif. visited her aunt. Mrs. Reeves.
this pas' weekend