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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
HERBERT SHOWS OLD FORM
IN VICTORY AT X. of C.
TR ACK MEET

NEW YORK-Jimmy Herbert, Col
ored N.Y.U. feet-footed middle-dis-
lance runner displayed plenty of his
old form in scoring the only major
upset of the evening when he beat
Manhattan's Johnny Quigley by a full
five yards at the fourteenth annual
running of the Knights of Columbus
games last Saturday night. The
lanky Herbert, after a years lapse,
flashed out with spurts that showed
that he was bent on winging his way
to new victories after bad '39 show
ing, capturing the 500-yard special.
Herbert covered the distance in the
excellent time of 0.58.6, missing Eddie
O'Brien's world record by only one
second.
Woodruff and Giddings Behind in
"88O'' Event
Johnny Woodruff, brilliant Colored
plodder, ran fading fifth in the 1880"
event, running behind Gene Venzke
veteran runner, who eliminated HIM
self when he tripped midway around
the course, thus slowing up the elon-
gated Woodruff and forcing him to
hurdle the prone body. Glenn Gum
ingham, veteran Kansas flyer and
winner of the contest, had to exert
himself on the last lap to move ahead
of Curtis Giddings, colored runner of
the Grand Street Boys Association.
Giddings finished in fourth place.
Peacock Cops" 8O-Yard Dash
Although he is supposed to be de-
crepit as a dash artist, Eulace Pea
cock, who ran the great Jesse Owens
into the wall a few years ago, and
N.C.A.A. champion when he was at
Temple University and now running
for the Shore A. c., Elberon, N. j.,
won the great American sprint series
in sensational style, with two first
places and a second. The sepia flash
captured the 60-yard dash, in which
national indoor champion, Herbert
Thompson, pulled a tendon and
snatched the "100," while in the $50"
he finished second to Thompson. Pea
cock won the sprint trophy with low
score of four points, to the second
place total of eight for Eddie O'Sulli-
van of the New York A.C.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
What Is Segregation?

Segregation is the special Amer
lean means of branding Colored
Americans as the interiors Of in
feriors in public status.
"When the white South found it
self confronted with the federal sta
tus Of equality for Colored people,
the former slaves-equality of citi-
zenship, of freedom, of franchise
rights, backed by the national gov
ernment-it selected the denial Of
presence and of service in places
opened for public patronage as the
one great way to brand Colored
people as ha ging been a slave race
and make them forever the scorn of
civil society.
at is a very effective measure.
Colored people are traitors to them
selves TO aid and abet the idea BY
self-segregation."
w. M. TROTTER.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
TO NYMAS A.C.
SHAW SENIORS LOSE

The Nymas A.C., of ROXbury, de-
feated the Shaw House Seniors 29-10,
last Saturday night at Williams Gym
nasium. The Seniors were short of
their first team players. Their ace
scorer Johnny "Jumpin' 1--WE" Watson
was absent from the lineup. The
Seniors were unable to display their
usual speed and coordination of for
mer games. Vic Kerr, star center,
and Dick Silva, stellar forward, were
outstanding for the Seniors. The
Senior lineup consisted of: Johnson,
forward; Silva, forward; Joseph,
guard; and Brothers, guard.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
BASKETBALL
Dunbar AssO. VS..
Royal Celtics

The Dunbar Associates basketball
team will travel to Maiden on Satur-
day, January 20, to play the Maiden
Royal Celtics, whom they defeated
last season 23-17 in a closely fought
contest. This game promises to be
one of the seasons best, because of
the natural rivalry between the City
of Maiden and the City of Cambridge.
the victory the Dunbar Five hold over
the Celtics, plus the fact that the
Dunbars snatched Babe Plenty out of
the Celtics Squad to coach their 1910
team. The game will be held at the
Lincoln Jr., High School, Cross St.,
Maiden, and will start at 1880 pm.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
ROuCHARD STOPS HAYES

Johnny Hayes, IT'S, Roxbury, sepia
light heavyweight, was kayoed by
Albert Bouchard, white, IT'S, Kingston,
R. l., in the fourth of scheduled six
rounder. Hayes appeared out of con-
dition and lacked the speed and punch
that made him the outstanding anna
teur light heavyweight in the East
last year. Hayes tired badly in the
second stanza, and it was apparent
that he was not in condition to out
step the lad he defeated twice in the
amateurs. Bouchard dropped Hayes
once in the third and twice in the
fourth before the towel was hurled
from his corner.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
N.B.A. THREATENS TO LIFT
ARMSTRONG,S TITLE

WASHINGTON - The National
Boxing Association intimated Satur-
day it might withdraw it's recognition
of Henry Armstrong, welterweight
champion. Announcing that the MIA
does not regard as a title defense
Armstrong; victory last Thursday
night over Ghnouly, lieut.-Col. Harvey
L. Miller, President of the association,
said Armstrong had not complied with
its siX-months rule for defending
titles.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
YOUNG BYRON STOPS FOE
IN THIRD

In a show studded with action on
the Argonne A. A. card at Mechanics
Building last Thursday night, Young
Byron, Roxbury, 142, kayoed Al Cas-
tonguay, white, lat, Holyoke, via the
technical kayo route in the third
round, of a scheduled four-rounder
Byron had too much class for the
Holyoke battler, dropping him with a
terrific right to the solar-pleXus in the
third. The referee mercifully stopped
the affair. This was probably Byron's
last appearance in a Boston ring be-
fore embarking for New York.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
RATE DOLLY KING AS
REST PLAYER

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Basketball
highlights: "The Oklahoma Aggies
saw lots of good basketball on their
Eastern swing, but voted Dolly King,
Illus versatile Colored star, the
best" So writes Bill White, of the
Associated Press, in pinch-hitting for
Eddie Brietz, mentioning. Each game,
according to those who see him in
action and those who play against
him, sees King improving with every
game
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
m1ntr AntrH

Sunday, Jan. IA, at $3.50 pm. a
musucal programme will be given in
the new Charles Street Church, Mrs.
Susan Cox, and Mrs. Ellastine Broad
max in charge of the programme
Monday evening, Jan. 8, the Liberal
Arts Club held their first chicken feast
in the dining room of Estelle's Cafe.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
The Sports Wheel
By "CHICKIE" TUGGLEs
AT THE IRISH-AMERICAN
AMATEUR BOUTS
Banks, Knight and Santos Lose in

Elimination Bouts
Joe Banks, 100, colored amateur
scrapper of Roxbury, lost a very un-
popular decision to Tommy Hill.
white, 100, Lowell, in the semi-fnals
OF the middleweight class in the sec
ond States amateur elimination at
the Boston Arena, Monday night. This
bout was a ringer" being packed
with action from gong to gong. Banks
solved the hard-hitting southpaw's
style in the first session, and rocked
the Lowellite with hard rights to the
Jaw. In the second Banks ran into
one of Hills lefts and went down for
a short count. He recovered his bear
ings, however, and went on to deal
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
DUSTY BROWN DROPS ONE

Dusty Robinson, white, 128A, Sub
bing" for Florant DesMaris of
Nashua, N. H., punched-out a close
six-round verdict over Dusty Brown,
131, classy Colored mitt-thrower from
Fall River. 1t was one of the best
fights on the card, with the battling
being closely-fought most of the dis
lance. The verdict went to Robinson.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
RADIO TALKS OVER WMEX
Simpson Turner Speaker
ATTITUDES TOWARD
RIGHTEOUSNESS

Sin is spiritual disease which, like
a cancer eats, undermines and de-
stroys the soul of man. He that is
not healed spiritually soon dies the
death of the unrighteous IN which is
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
TO LEI
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-30
The NEWSPAPER BOY
Nevada State Journal)

NiNeNdud Sldte JOufHdl)
The boy has natural right to equip
himself for the responsibilities of the
man. When he comes to manhood he
must be self-supporting, self-reliant;
he must be capable, useful, competent
and willing to do his part, recognize the
parts of others, understand the commu-
nifty of service in short, he must be able
to get along by himself and with Others
Boyhood is an apprenticeship for man.
hood.
This is one of the fundamental reasons
why the newspaper boy is happy and
fortunate in his vocation, and why he
should be encouraged to develop the op-
portunities it offers.
This is newspaper boys week in the
United States and newspapers generally
are joining with the boys in observing it.
The newspaper boy is young merchant.
He deals with the public, as does the
tradesman. The conditions of success are
elemental. He is the master of his own
fortune. He must render good service.
He must be dependable. He must be
prompt, punctual, attentive to duty He
must be enterprising, energetic. He finds
that his personality counts; success comes
in the measure he works for it. He learns
to know people, appreciates the fact they
are not all alike, acquires the tact OF deal
ing with folk of varying natures.
Of all the various employments for the
boy; newspaper service fits best in his
schedule. 1t takes but comparatively few
hours of his time it does not interfere
with school or studies; it leaves him time
for necessary play. It requires attention
during its hours, discipline that counts
for much in manhood experience. But he
Is on his own and he pavS for his dpfaI1tc
and he gets the reward for his merits.
Boys need experience as we'll as pre-
cept in learning to become men. 1t is
boys right to gain that experience, and,
to do that, he must have some measure of
responsibility obligations of self-control,
merits and demerits definitely resulting
from his own efforts or neglect.
The newspaper boy gets this oppor-
tunity of experience, learps its lessons,
takes its tests, meets its judgment of self
measurement.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-30
by Willis Thornton :.
In n0bscurity Strange Things are Done

One of the i:IoS5 striking things
about this War-perhaps it is a
necessary attribute of any war
is the way in which all must
shape our courses in semi-dark-
ness.
If to know the facts is the first
requisite CT forming a judgment
then the world today is q sorry
place for forming judgments. And
SO it is.
The recent Official statements on
war casualties are good example
The Germans have announesl
their casualties Ior the first year
of the war, including the conquest
of Poland, Belgium, Holland. Nor
way. and France. The cost. SAYS
the official German statement.
was $4,000 dead. $4,000 wounded.
and 24,000 missing-a tetal of 2O6.
0G0 casualties.
Is this accurate? No ore can say
with certainty. It may be. for the
German blitz type Of attack ap-
pears to have been less costly than
old-fashioned sausage-mill tactics
On the other hand. the sheer ex-
tent of the operations. the severity
OF much of the fighting. seems to
suggest far greater losses. But that
is merely suspicion. No one can
prove the German claims untrue
When il comes 10 planes. some
body IS definitely wrong. The Ger
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-30

enemy planes in all the conquered
countries. They claim to have lost
only 1850.
The British claim that 3945 Ger
man planes have been destroyed
the Germans admitting to only
1050 The British meanwhile adj
nit losing 1912, which leaves a
large number of the German claim
Of $3.50 to be charged up to Po-
land and France. What minimum
core of truth can be chisled out of
these conflicting claims? None.
except that Britain and Germany
each admit losing more than 1000
planes.
What damage is being done in
either country by air bombing? We
cannot know. All we kroW is the
official reports. the censor passed
pictures showing destruction. but
seldom showing destruction of
anything Oh military value. Either
or both sides might already have
been reduced to a state of nom
productiveness and we would not
know it.
American press associations and
newspapers spend moEey like
water; their reporters and camera
men risk their lives, to find the
truth. But Lney can at best il
Illuminate only patches Of ii here
and there. ike a man bIunderine
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-30
WHOSE JOB IS
LAW ENFORCEMENT?

One billion dollars worth of vital Unit
ed States defense contracts are threaoeh-
ed with an indefinite tleup III Bethiehem
Steel Corp plants because the Clo steei
workers union is attempting To call
strike 10 enforce, they say, terms OF the
Walsh-Healey act.
The Walsh-H Healey act governs labor
conditions in plants which have received
federal contracts. Bethlehem, the ClO
saws. is violating the act. Therefore ClO
leaders have called for a strike vote
If the strike materializes, this country
will be subjected to further delay III
defense program that, any day, may be-
come actually a matter of life or death
for democracy. The delay could go ON
endlessly 1t could cost America its ma
tional independence.
We cannot tell from this distance whe-
ther the CIO or Bethlehem is right. Per-
haps the corporation is violating the
Walsh -Healey act If it is. punishment
should be Forthcoming We may not like
the law. but since it is law we believe
every American should abide by it. That
goes for the Bethlehem Steel Corp. as
strongly as it goes for John Jones or Paul
Smith, or any other average man.
But it is not up to the ClO 10 enforce
the law. 1t is up to the federal govern
ment.
The fact that your employer may not
be paying you the rate he should pay
under a federal law does not give you,
as an individual, a right to kidnap him
and place him behind bars in your own
private jail. You are supposed to let the
law deal with him.
The CIO has no more right than pri-
vate individual to take law enforcement
into its own hands 1t has the same duty
as a private individual to abide by the
law and live under the law.
If the CIO, or any other labor or in
dustrial group, is to be allowed to en-
force the law as it sees the law, then we
have no use for governmental the
time will come when the dominating
group will not only demand the right
to enforce the law but will make it, too.
We want none of that in America.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-30
A WHISPERING CAMPAIGN
AGAINST WILLKIE
portland Oregonian)

Many persons have called The Oregon
ian's information desk during recent
weeks to ask concerning the ancestry.
church affiliations and so forth of Wen
dell Wlllkie. That is quite natural But
IN the past few days particularly some
of the questioners have revealed that they
have heard stories about Mr.. Wilkes
patriotism and political philosophy And
that is not so natural. 1t means the
whispering campaign" which is part of
every national campaign has got started
in this one
Mr.. Willkie is an Episcopalian. His
four grandparents were democratic ref
ugees from the reaction that followed the
German revolution of 1S49 He was rails
e5 In bookish, liberal and argumenta-
tive home. His father was noted liberal
lawyer. His mother was the first woman
admitted to the Indiana bar So deep was
his hatred of German militarism and all
the forerunners of the present Nazism,
that he volunteered on the first day of
the World War. He served overseas and
became a captain. When the Ku Klux
klan swept the nation in the twenties, he
was chief factor in breaking its power
In Indiana, at the risk of his career.
These are merely salient facts from his
life, to answer the specific questions. The
Republican strategists should hope that
the whispering will be sufficient to iusti-
fy the repeating of Mr. WILKES story
time and again Taken as a whole, it
amounts to an essay on liberal democracy
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-30
by Bruce Cation :.
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

100 per cent isolationist.
Naval affairs committee would
be headed by Melvin Mas of
Minnesota, a firm opponent of
swapping off navy equipment to
Great Britain. John Taber of New
York, convinced budget-bal-
ANGER, would run the appropria-
tions committee The important
ways and means committee would
be in the hands of Allen Tread
way of Massachusetts, an equally
stalWart anti-NeW Dealer.
WILL FIGHT
AID-TO-BRITAIN
Hence the peace groups figure
that the big job right now is to
help get Republican House.
They're concentrating on that
with the proviso, of course. that
an isolationist Democrat would be
preferred to an interventionist Re-
publican-and are letting the
presidential contest slide.
Just what the peace bloc's STRAIT
egy will be at the next session de-
pends partly on the way the fall
elections go. If the elections re-
fleet what the isolationists believe
to be acknowledgement public
opposition to conscription- the
big item on the agenda will be
an effort to repeal the draft act.
A bill to accomplish this has al
ready been drawn up as a matter
of fact, and might even be intro
duced at this session, although
that is unlikely.
Beyond that, there will be con-
tlnued opposition to the aid-for-
Britain campaign. The peace
groups are perhaps even more dis
turbed by recent U. S-British
conversations regarding the use
of the Singapore naval base by
the U. S. fleet than they were by
the destroyer deal; what they're
afraid of is the development of
a deal which would, in effect
make this nation an informal CO.
partner in the defense and preser-
vation of the whole British empire
and they're resolved to block it If
they can.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-30
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TAXES

NOTICE is hereby given that all
taxes for the fiscal year OF July l.
1910 to June 80, 1941 in the city OF
Ell Centro are now due and payable.
That all taxes upon personal prop
erty and one-half of all taxes upon
real estate, mortgages, deeds OF
trust, contracts or other obligations
by which debt is secured upon real
estate will become delinquent upon
the last Monday in November next
thereafter at five o'clock pm, and
that unless such taxes are paid
prior thereto ten per cent will be
added to the amount thereof.
That the remaining half OF the
taxes upon real estate, mortgages,
deeds of trust, contracts or other
obligations by which debt is secured
upon real estate, will become de-
linquent upon the last Monday in
April next thereafter at five o'clock
pm, and that unless such taxes
are paid prior thereto, five per cent
will be added to the amount there
of.
That all taxes may be paid at the
time of the payment of the first
installment as herein provided.
That taxes may be paid at the
City Hall to the Deputy Tax Collec-
tor, between hours of eight o'clock
am, and five o'clock pm, with
the exception of Saturday and on
which day the hours shall be from
eight o'clock am, to twelve o'clock
noon
Dated this 10th day of September,
1910.
H. E. Cox, City Tax and License
Collector.
By NEAL II. GAVIN,
Deputy
(S19-O2. incl)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-30
INDUSTRY SPEAKS

Politicians who attempt to garner in
votes by exuding hatred for industry from
every pore should take look at an adj
vertisement which appears in this news
paper over the signature of the Pacific
Coast Petroleum Industry. The ad is
paid for at regular rates-yet it is not
Selling" effort. Except that it attempts
to sell Americans on the need for ma
tional defense.
There is n.ws in the ad, and material
for thought. Perhaps the most striking
thing about it is that it presents, without
attempting to do So the most compelling
argument possible for the efficiency of
private industry, as compared to the eff
cheney of an industry controlled by polit-
ical meddlers with iob-hunting friends.
Read the ad, and you will readily see
why the business of defending America
will fall upon American industry in the
long run. And you will see, too, that it
will fall upon capable shoulders.
Why can the same bomber fly 80 per
cent faster and farther in the United
States than in Europe, and carry from 20
to 30 per cent more bombs? Because
American industry under a system of
free enterprise, has been able to develop
resources to the full Because American
industry has not in the past been fettered
and hindered by theoretical crackpots
who have gained temporary political con-
troll.
Today's politicians should remember
that.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-30
BY TAYLOR CALDWELL
Author Of DYNASTY of Death"

Author Of Dynasty of Death
Recently 1 heard two young peo-
pie talking together, with a mingl-
ing of despair. cynicism and wry-
ness.
I'm Communist" said one,
because I'm envious of competent,
adequate and virile citizens"
I'm a Fascist said the other
bitterly, because l hate people"
And I, I thought, am democrat
because I neither hate nor envy
anyone.
But, later considered, is a mere
negative state of mind a safe or
sensible one in these dreadful days?
l do not think so. Something is
frightfully wrong with democracies.
They are negative. They lack dyna-
mism, power. conviction and
strength. They lack courage and
honor and drive. If they have a
case, it is not apparent in the babel
OF voices, feeble, quarreling and
llstless. And where many talk, no
one is heard, and general de-
moralization and helplessness over
comes the will to struggle. and full
fill and the very will-to-live and
will-to-survive.
But inherent in the democracies
there is real case. First of all, de-
mocracies must realize that their
way of life is comparatively new in
the world. The slave democracies of
Greece and Rome were no real de-
mocracies. But a free people, choos-
ing it's own government, setting up
it's own courts where everyone is
equal before the law. deciding its
own issues, is new phenomenon
under the old sun.
The new" tyrannical and man
hating way of life of Communist
Fascists is as ancient as life and
death. Today, the final battle be-
tween the new and the old is taking
place, not only on bloody battle
fields, but in the hearts and minds
of all men. 1t all comes down to the
basic question: do we love men or
hate them?"
Does democracy breed weakness
and confusion and disorder? I am
afraid SO. But it need not. It is all
a matter of Qualification. Democra-
cies must vitally affirm certain doc
trines: honor and courage, truth
and justice. They must face the
animal realism" of the enemies
with the reply that realism is not
human civilization, that men do not
live by the bread of comfort and
profits alone, and that there are
noble things worth fighting for as
we'll as base.
And we should prepare ourselves
to fight for them. not with words
alone, but with steel. We must rid
ourselves of our weaknesses, which
are self-indulgence, selfishness, apa-
thy, lack of discipline, fear of ad-
versity and pain, repugnance to
war, and luxury and love of profits.
We should say at every hour:
am ready to fight, not with phrases
but with guns: not tomorrow but
today.
Jesus said that if a man lacked
a sword. he should sell half his
garments and buy one. In another
section, the Bible declares that a
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-30
Uranium Crackers

The Cabinet
Here are five questions about the
cabinet of the president. How many
of them can you answer correctly?
l. What are the 10 cabinet po-
sitions?
2. Who was Abraham Lincoln S
secretary of state?
3. How do cabinet salaries COM
pare with that of the vice presi-
dent?
4. William Howard Taft, who Ia
ter became president and chief jus
tice of the supreme court, once held
cabinet post What was it?
5. Herbert Hoover served as sec
retary of commerce under two pres
idents. Who were they?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-30
ANSWERS

l. The cabinet positions are the
secretaries of state, treasury, war.
navy, interior commerce. agricul-
ture, and labor, and the postmaster
and attorney generals.
2. Lincoln's secretary of state was
William H. Seward.
3. Cabinet members earn the
same salary as the vice president,
$4,000 a year.
4. William Howard Taft was sec
retary of war under Theodore Roose-
welt.
5. Herbert Hoover was secretary
of commerce under Warren G.. Hard
ing and Calvin Coolidge.