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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

The Phenom club, consisting Of a
COUP of young girls, is still very
active in the neighborhood. Re-
Gently. they elected officers for the
new year. Those elected were:
Marie Foster. president; Ida Warren,
recording secretary; Helen Hum
phries, treasurer; Charlie Mae War
rem, publicity chairman; Lillian
Farrow is the chairman OF the pro-
gram committee with Catherine
Curtis as co-chairman.
Friday, Feb. %, the club is spon-
soring a dance, at the residence of
Mrs. Bryant, Bill Nevada street A
gala time is promised all who at
tend this affair.
Other members are Johnetta Fra
zier and Laura Shumaker.
Sweet Girl Graduate
We extend our congratulations to
Miss Lillian Wheeler, the charming
daughter of the T R. Wheelers. who
graduated from high school last
month with honorsg Her parents
gave a graduating party in her
honor last Saturday evening at the
YW.C.A., which was quite a lovely
party and largely attended by both
young and old.
Miss Wheeler left last week for
Washington, DC. where she will
matriculate in Howard university.
Moves From Neighborhood
We who have become accustomed
to buying delicious barbecue from
the johnson Barbecue place on
Gallagher. will regret their moving
from our neighborhood to 1910 Oak
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17
By LEILA MAE HENDRICKS
VALENTINE DAY" LOVE SONG

NhLA-sN IN ~ = 3o-NNf
If Death should claim me for her
own today.
And softly l should falter from
your side.
Oh. tell me, loved one. would my
memory starry
And would my image in your
heart abide?
Or she.id-f- be as-seH4e- forgotten
dream.
That lives its little space. then
fades entire?
Should Time send DER you its re-
lentless stream.
To cool your heart, and quench for
aye loves fire?
I would not for the world, love, give
you pain,
Or ever compass what would
cause you grief:
And, oh. how well know that tears
are vain
But love is sweet, my dear, and
life is brief;
So if some day before you should
go
Beyond the sound and sight OF
song and sea.
Twould give me spirit stronger
wings to know
THAT you remembered still and
wept for me-"
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17
FAR EAST
n EWS
By MRS. MARIAN C. McGILL


Masses OF Sacred Heart church
were well attended. Sunday. which
was the first Sunday, Holy Com
munion was administered to the
Holy Name Society men and boys.
This was also Fathers and Sons
day and National Scout week. II
was BETTING that boys and their
fathers commune together. Break
fast in the dining room followed
services, under the sponsorship OF
James Carruthers.
William Bowling and Tom Dono-
hue, assistant prosecuting attorney,
were principal speakers. Lieut..
Wallace William, one Of the Oldest
members of the parish, organizer OF
St. Peter Claver parish and Holy
Name Man, was also present.
Charles R. Smith was in charge OF
the program. Atty. Charles R. Ber-
ry commented.
The entire staff which sponsored
the breakfast was complimented for
the fine work shown. This in
cluded Mrs. Carruthers, co-workers,
and Annie Sett Plata.
The Epistle was taken from II
Cor. 6: lilo; the gospel from Matt.
ALL. Take these lessons of daily
thought for the week: St. Luke
1881; Phil. IA; l Cor, BIT; ST. John
1918; then read Christs instructions
to his disciples in st. Matt. 10th
chapter.
During Lent let us follow our
dear Lord in the wilderness in
fasting and praying. Stations Of the
Cross is held every Sunday after
noon at $3.50; devotions of Our Lady
Of Perpetual Help and Blessed Mar
tin De Porress; Mass. every morning
at 1880; Sunday school at $3.50 am.
Guests
Mr. and Mrs, David McGill were
the guests Of Mr. and Mrs. Young,
Saturday evening at a social and
cabaret party given by the Chrysler
Business Mems club at the Michigan
Democratic club room.
Young Peoples Dramatic and
Social Club
The Young Peoples Dramatic and
Social club Of st. Peter Claver met
Sunday in the regular meeting. The
president Jean Williams. stressed
the need for more cooperation and
encouragement from members OF
the church.
Ill
William Walker Is confined to
his home with la grippe.
Mrs. Newman is improving after
a long illness.
Notice: The Young Ladies' So
dality will go to Communion in a
body after which a short meeting
will be held in the rectory. Miss
Maddox is president.
Three Honored on Birthday
Mrs. Ferbbie Whillingham, Mrs
Gerta Pattilo and Serial Smith were
entertained on their birthday al
the home Of Mrs. Pattilo last week
Among the guests present were
Corine Meadows, Leroy Williams
Ed valient, Mr.. and Mrs. David Nc.
Gill, Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Young. Mr.
and Mrs. c. McNair. Booker Will.
ingham, Mrs. Willie Cox, Benjamin
Tyler. David Willingham, Alvin
Willingham and Osborn Mcintosh.
Returns From Hospital
Mrs Lowell Tuck. formerly Cath.
crime Hunter, has returned from III,
hospital. We all wish her a speed,
recovery.
Guest
Mr.. and Mrs James Williams wer,
the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Johr
Haynes OF Harding avenue Sun
day.
Emmaline Fisher was one Of tn,
many guests seen at the pre-Vslen
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

them and II doesn' have TO be given
after an examination.
We are not looking to Mayor
JefTeries to appoint one Of us to a
good position, but we are looking
To the mayor TO give many a fair
position which will net a decent
living without asking for relief. We
have heard more OF Jefferies in the
short time that he mas been in office.
than we heard Of Reading during
his entire two years Of broken
promises.
We can now form our own
opinion as to why you knock Mayor
Jefferies.
Respectfully,
Myrtle Kewper Noel
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

tine party given by the Bee-Dew
alumnaes last week.
Boy Scouts of America &c.
The Boy Scouts OF Detroit cele-
brated their thirtieth anniversary
at the General Motors building,
Thursday. Feb. 8. at pm. Pep
songs. community singing, dinner
and several speeches made a grand
meeting. President Roosevelt was
heard from Washington where he
spoke on the subject OF Boy Scouts
DR.. West Of Miami. Fla. concluded
the program with a speech. All Of
iicials and scoutmasters Of all troops
were present. Theodore Paunt, as
sistant scoutmsster Of Troop al.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17
What Is Life Insurance?
BY A. N. LAKE
(Vice-President and Secretary Of the Western Union
Mutual Insurance Co..

Few of us can take stock on the
results we have accomplished for
any given period Of time and look
over the figures with a feeling Of
absolute satisfaction that they rep
resent maximum effort and ability
day in and day out
There is always room for improve
ment. We all know that we have
neutrality-suspicious. to go after
new people1 that we have actually
lost business by figuring certain
prospects would keep little longer
that certain prospects were not
ready to buy or that we would find
he conditions more ideal" at some
future time.
Every man is pestered more or
less by these internal thought
waves Of procrastination = these
mental bugs" that have a brilliant
headlight in 'front.' and a long sharp
singer behind. They breed by
the millions in the office, at movie
palaces and around easy chairs in
clubrooms.
But il you get any value at all
out of your "hind-sights" they GER
tainly prove that the measure of
success you have attained in the past
has not been realized by waiting
for "ideal' conditions and coming
opportunities-but by going out and
creating them or meeting them
more than half way.
Most OF the business you have
landed in the past has come through
your own initiative and you can't
get any better system for going after
it in the future.
There are always few fellows in
every line who are constantly strain
ing their eyes looking for reasons
why business should be slow, in
stead Of straining them looking for
business that is always 10 be had
Every live-wire saleman knows
that there is only one unvarylng
rule TO follow in making this
months sales exceed last months
expectations - and that rule is
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

Someone ; e
has said, "An
men are liars.
II these two say
ings are true
then all men are
thieves. Be this
as it will or
may; be it true
or untrue, we do
know that dis
honesty in our
relationships one
to ard h e
other, our at
tempt to get as
p,ttrb ont Of
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17
1852 Monroe Avenue
Detroit. Michigan
February IL, 1910

Editor Michigan Chronicle
Detroit, Michigan
Dear Sir:
Having read several articles in
your paper about Mayor Jefferies
refusing 10 appoint a Negro 10 one
c, the Civil Service appointments
gwen out, and having also noted
the cartoon printed under date OF
February 3, The Negro requests a
civil service appointment" ! an
writing this letter. Now in the first
place, according to your own publ
estion OF the pictures OF the Ne
sroes applying for the job. if they
lock like those, am thankful to
Mayor Jefferies for not appointing
men looking as these do, 10 repre-
sent our race. Now il we make our
own people look 50 vulgar, what do
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17


Miss Whitfield has divided the
folk songs which she collected into
three groups according to the dia-
lect used in them, Louisiana-French
Acadian or Cajun-French and Ne
gro French or Creole. The last
term is misnomer, Miss Whit
field states. because the dialect is
one used by Negroes, not by Creoles.
THE songs are given with music
here and are direct from the people
as the author has copied them as
she heard them sung. As Miss
Whitfield points out there is no
definitive work in this field since
there are probably still other songs
which the people sing which have
never been recorded.
The songs OF the three groups do
not differ greatly. In her introduce
ton 10 the Negro-Freneh songs the
author states that the dialect used
in them was that spoken by Ne
groes owned by French masters,
and does not mention what dialect
was spoken by the large number
Of free Negroes in Louisiana. These
folk songs should be OF great in
terest to teachers nd students Of
French. For the former a number
Of the songs included might easily
be used along with the familiar
'Frere Jacques" or mon Ami
Pierrot' in elementary classes.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17
WE, THE NEGRO
BY VIM. L. SHERRlLL
President Afro-Americsn Institute and Federated
Freside GROUPS
BY WIN. L. sHERRILL

other and in their national and
international relations. 1t is dis
neartening to weaker peoples who
have placed their nope in the dawn
ing OF a day when honesty and truth
will be the dominating forces In
the lives OF men and their govern
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

"If you will lie you will steal"
my father used to say to me when
ever ! handled the truth carelessly.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

knows no bad after effects-and
that antidote is WORK.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

international TeldllonS. IL IL us
neartening to weaker peoples who
have placed their nope in the dawn
ing OF a day when honesty and truth
will be the dominating forces In
the lives OF men and their govern
ments.
THE MASTER HATH NEED"
As it stands today all OF the lead
ing governments in the world have
already or, are now attempting. to
conquer by force or fraud, weaker
nations whose peoples they have
no intention OF Incorporating into
their system OF social. civil and
economic government. Their sole
objective is TO get all OF the land
and labor out OF others at the least
possible cost. Not only is Germany
and Japan attempting this today,
nut it is a practice carried on by
England, France, Italy and America,
The master hath need" they say,
ard proceed to grab and hold and
to exploit for,-their benefit those
who are too weak to defend and
protect their own interests. II has
become the rule OF international
diplomacy to lie. steal and rob. IN
less some way is found whereby
the nations OF the world can be
forced to obey moral law, civiliza-
ton is doomed.
WHITE WORLD POLICY
When dishonesty between persons
becomes accepted as a principle of
Individual relations and interna-
tional diplomacy lives outside the
moral law where else can civiliza-
non be headed but toward disaster2
We have the decline and fall of
Babylon and Greece and Rome by
reason OF the very same principle
Of social. civil and economic cor
iuption, to teach our statesmen,
preachers and philosophers the dan
gers they invite, but they do not
understand.
The white mans policy OF ex-
plotting and brutalizing, the blacks
IF America, the West Indies, Africa
and India;% the browns of Central
America, South America and Aus
tralia; and the yellow people of
China, have become a policy as re-
morseless in its workings as the
laws OF the Medes and Persians,
without flexibility and without
mercy. 1t is a long road that has no
end.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17
BOOK REVIEW

gence." and Canyon Pain" but the
poems are uniformly good. Black
Labor Chant" can be unreservedly
recommended for its beauty and
emotional appeal as well as for
the skill with which Mr.. Cannon
fashions his poems. 1t is with a
feeling of distinct loss that the
reader lays down this book from
the pen OF man who had so much
to give to his race and to the artistic
world.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

LOUISIANA FREN FOLK
SONGS. by Irene Therese Whit
field, The University Of Louisiana
Press, University. La, 1899, 159pp.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-08
(By Ohio Labor Meas Service J


Columbus, Ohio.-Following confer
ences this week with city officials from
Cleveland, Toledo, Akron, and other
industrial centers, Governor Bricker
may reach a decision as to whether
special session of the Legislature
will be necessary to provide additional
state aid for poor relief.
Severe winter weather which has
curtailed activities of the Works
Progress Administrator in these
cities and thrown many on relief has
caused an extraordinary burden upon
relief funds and also a heavy drain
upon state funds, the governor said.
State Highway Department officials
estimated it had cost the state three
quarters of a million dollars to keep
Ohio highways open to travel thus far
this winter, due to the repeated snow
storms
"It has been the hardest winter in
many years." aid Highway Director
Bieghtler.
While this work on the highways
has created some employment in the
counties, it has not equaled the unem-
ployment that has been created by
reason of men not being able to work
on other outside projects.
Cooperation between cities and
counties in taking advantage of w.
P. A. funds available for public work
was being worked out in Columbus
and Toledo this week as one way of
providing relief for those able to work.
Under this plan county and w. P. A.
funds would be used in providing work
relief in the cities, instead of counties
setting up relief funds for the cities
by borrowing from automobile tag
funds. By taking men off the relief
rolls in the city for this work, more
money would be available for direct
relief for those unable to work.
However, this is not solving the
problem of how to pay the butcher and
the baker for food they have furnished
for relief clients. Toledo was sued
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-08
Governor Considering Special Session
As Emergency Is Created By Winters
Heavy Drain Upon Cities Relief Fund

amount where the revenue derived for
retirement of the bonds is in the form
of income from the bridge The same
question was involved in the institu-
tional building program.
The State Institutional Building
Authority will move at once to obtain
formal approval of the $4,250,000 reve-
nue. bond issue authorized to build a
3,000-bed institution for patients at
Apple Creek. The procedure will be
the same as in the bridge case, seek
ing a writ of mandamus to compel the
secretary of state to attest the bond
issue
The Apple Greek institution is the
first in a ten-million-d dollar expansion
program planned for Ohio welfare
institutions under the new method of
financing whereby revenues from pa
tients would go to retire the bonds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-08
LABOR SPOKESMAN
ASKS WAGE BOOST

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). Labor
arguments for increase of railroad
minimum wages from 80 to 40 cents
an hour, under provisions of the Fair
Labor Standards Act, were begun by
spokesman of section workers and
trackmen before the railroad indus
try's wage and hour committee.
Leo E. Keller, Brotherhood of Main
tenance of Way Employees research
director, urged that nationwide min
imum railroad wages be set, thus end
ing the wage differentials between
North and South
Keller declared that earnings of
maintenance of way employees declined
substantially between 1920 and 1898,
while earnings of railroad workers as
a whole increased. He told the COM
mittee that the number of track en-
ployes had decreased out of proportion
to that of other employees. He said
further that while the total of section
men on all roads dropped 498 per cent
from 1929 to 1889, the drop in the
South was $50 per cent; in the South
west, 81 per cent, and in New Eng
land, 273 per cent.
To the argument of the railroads
that higher wages might force fur
ther mechanization, with consequent
decrease in employment, Keller re-
piled that mechanization of railroad
section gangs had been going on for
many years, regardless of the wage
situation. He disputed the contention
that trackmen using machines were
unskilled laborers.
Keller also said that wages for sec
tion hands ranged from as low as Is
cents an hour in the South to as high
as So cents an hour in the North prior
to establishment of minimum wages
at 80 cents an hour by law. He said
the average wage for section hands
now was 40 cents an hour, and asked
that the industry in recommending
wgaes make no differentials from the
North and South and West.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-08
Uphold Housing And Bridge
Authorities; Supreme Court
Gives "Go" Signal In Cin'ti
Ohio Supreme Court Hands Down Two Important De
cisiOn-TO Act Stimulus to Building Industry
Compels Cincinnati Manager to Carry Out Contract.

and that it was violative of Ohio's
constitutional rule of uniformity for
taxing all real estate to exempt these
projects from local taxation.
The majority opinion said it was
not for the court to concern itself with
the wisdom of the policy in enacting
the Housing Law. 1t says:
"Naturally, in the execution of such
a program great deal must be left
to the discretion and sound judgment
of the local authorities, and when it
appears that such judgment and dis
cretion is being exercised within law
full limits no basis is afforded for ju
dicial intervention.
Examination of the evidence pre-
sented shows a carefully conceived and
balanced plan to abolish selected slum
areas in the city of Cincinnati and
provide low-rent dwelling units within
the municipal limits for families of
low incomes, in general conformity
with the purposes and design of con-
trolling legislation.
"If a plan as formulated by local
authority comes within the purview of
the Housing Act and meets the APP
proval of the National Housing Au-
thority, whereby it is willing to lend
federal funds in furtherance thereof,
a court may not interfere"
State welfare officials were cheered
by the decision of the court upholding
the State Bridge Commissions au-
thority to issue $1,30O,000 refunding
revenue bonds to refnance the San
dusky Bay bridge purchase.
The court held that it does not vio-
late the states $750,OOO debt limita-
tion to issue bonds in excess of this
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-08
STRIKING LUGGAGE
WORKERS in FIGHT

Petersburg, Va. (ILNS). - Twelve
hundred Petersburg luggage workers,
on strike against the American Hard
ware Company for better wages and
the union shop, face an injunction
fight On February %, the strikers
were served with supplemental in
junction obtained by the company
from the same judge who issued the
first one. This supplemental injunc-
tion limits the number of pickets to
only three at the entrance and it bars
any other strikers from being in the
vicinity of the plant and even re-
strains sympathizers from approach
ing the plant. The second injunction,
just as the first one, was issued with
out hearing.
When President Green of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor learned about
the second injunction, he assigned Jo-
seph A. Padway, A. F. of L. counsel,
to take charge of the unions legal
defense. The union has already re-
quested a modification of the injunc-
tion. The intervention of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor in the strike
has had a very encouraging effect
upon the strikers.
The problem of feeding the strikers,
who, with their families, number
5000 persons, is serious one and
they are asking the entire labor move
ment of the nation for help. The
strikers hope that the labor movement
of the North will realize the great
Importance of their fight and will give
them helping hand at once. Contri-
buttons should be sent to Luggage
Workers Union, Local 81, Is Leigh
Building, Petersburg, Virginia.
Local 52 is affiliated with the In
ternational Ladies' Handbag, Pocket
book and Novelty Workers Union,
A. F. of l..
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-08
TEST VOTE FAVORS
AF.L. REHABILITATION

New York City (ILNS).-Prefer-
ence for reaffiliation with the Amer
ican Federation of Labor was strongly
indicated in a test vote taken by mem
bers of the Knitgoods Workers Union,
an affiliate of the international La
dies Garment Workers Union.
The vote, in which preference for
the A. F. of L. was indicated by two
to one, was on rival states for a COM
mittee to run the election of delegates
to the /. L. G. w. U, convention in May
at which reaffiliation is expected to
be a major issue. The successful
slate represented the progressive or
administration group, while the other
was put up by the so-called rank-and-
file, or Communist group. Both groups
favor unity in the labor movement,
but if efforts to bring the A. F. of L.
and the G. /. o. into agreement fail,
the progressives favor returning to
the A. F. of L., believing the c. |. 0.
represents 'dual unionism," and the
rank k-and-file group favors reaffilia-
tino with the c. |. o. because of it's
organization of basic industries, meg
lected by the A. F. of L."
Louis Nelson, manager of the Knit
goods Workers Union, said he be-
lieved the vote was indicative of senti-
ment throughout the l. L. G. u, an
old A. F. of L. union which took part
in the organization of the C. |. O. The
l. L. G. U. left the c. 10. last year
and is now an independent organ
ization.