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The guardian., 1941-01-04
GLOBE COMMENDS
TUFTS CAPTAIN

Jerry Mason, candid BOSTON
GLOBE feature sportswriters, wrote
last Sunday 1910 athletic review
which we quote in part:
g.. Hereabouts, track was COM
pletely a personal success for long leg
ged Eddie Dugger, hurdler and a fine
gentleman upon whom his college has
bestowed many of its greatest honors.
"Dugger won II out of hurdles or
sprint championships for which he
competed in 1910, truly remarkable
feat. Included in his booty were all
the available regional championships
plus the indoor and outdoor I,C.4-A
high and low and national collegiate
high hurdle crowns.
Ewell Dash King
"New arrivals on the track were
sprinters Harold Davis, 10 year old
Oaks, California, Jr. College sensa-
ton; Norwood Barney Ewell, coffee
hued Penn State sophomore from Lam
caster, Penn, and Eddie Morris, an
other Coast youngster. Between them
they swept all the major outdoor
championships.
"Ewell mopped up four sprint titles
outdoors, the LC.4-A and N.C.A.A.
double dashes, also won the indoor
LC.4-A dash and indoor and outdoor
broadjump competition"
Browns Record Run
The Globe rated Johnny Woodruff's S
world record $50 and half mile records
one of the greatest achievements of
the past year, adding.
"Tarzan Brown, the bombshell of
the macadam, ran the fastest mara
thon in history, from Lawrence to SAILS
bury after Gerad Cote, petite French
Canadian, had smashed the accepted
Marathon marks in the Boston race"
Add the retention of the national
A.A.U. Women's track championship
by Tuskegee; the Women's A.A.U.
dash monopoly by Jean Lane of Will
berforce, and the AA.U. Decathlon
triumph by Bill Watson of Michigan.
Who said the 1910 sepia track sea-
son was a flop?
The guardian., 1941-01-04
NasonicNews

This bids fair to be a busy and a
prosperous New Year, and from pres
ent indications nearly all the lodges in
the tisrt and second districts will be
kept busy for some time to come. The
Grand Lodge has met in annual Com
munication and has much work laid
out on the trestle board.
Watch Castle William and John J.
Smith lodges and see who can best ex-
emplfy the work. They are about
evenly matched, so it should be a good
race.
Cheering news comes from Worces-
ter that P.GM., Bro. George E. Stew
art is on the road to recovery. Let us
remember him in our invocation to
Deity.
Two of the veterans Of Masonry,
Past S. G. W., Bro. jackson Davis and
Past R. E. Grand Commander, Sir
Shedrick Goode, 33' have been called
from labor to refreshement in the
Grand Lodge above during the past
month.
Bro. Samuel Perry, 33', is still con-
fined to the Veterans Hospital in Rut-
land. Drop him a card now and then.
VIM. G. Butler Chapter, O.E.S. held
their Christmas party on Friday last.
After a short business session there
was drawing for basket of groceries.
The Christmas tree and party given
by the M. W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge,
F. & A. M. on Saturday, Dec. 28th was
a decided success, espite the inclemency
of the weather. More than 500 children
attended and were entertained by carol
singing, motion pictures and music bv
Tasker Crosson and his orchestra, after
which gifts were presented to each child
and refreshments were served to the
children and visitors.
Let your watchword for the coming
year be punctuality and attention. A
happy and Prosperous New Year to
all
FIRST CRAFTSMAN
j. HENRI BURCH,
Grand Lecturer
The guardian., 1941-01-04
CUBANS OKAY

Theodore Williams, the sometimes
brilliant rightfeld rookie of the Boston
Red Sox, is quoted thusly, in reference
to one of his off-eras in hitting at Fen
way Park:
81 guess I'm Cuban ball player.
Good field, no hit"
Against the Cleveland Indians the
next day "Thumping Ted" came gal
Looping in for Keltner's fly ball and ran
completely by the soaring apple which
landed far in back of him for a triple.
Your columnist, who was even a
worse catcher, once duplicated the
Ted Williams feat even the first time
he played the outfeld.
Thus we must protest Ted's express
sions concerning the Cubans who must
be all right because their trumpet
players and drummers really play hot
rhumbas. And, besides, l like Cuban
girls.
The Williams claim of "good field,
no hit" should be, in reference to him
and the Red Sox, "no field, no hit, no
pitch, and no major league baseball y
That just about sums up to no-hits,
no-runs, and no errors, and indeed it
does sum up that way barring the
Cleveland Indians who made six errors
in one game which is about the only
reason the Sox won the contest. (?)
A young gentleman recently asked
me the meaning of the word deplor-
able, and I've looked it up. 1t means
the way the paIeface major leaguers
are playing baseball today,
On second thought, it is the way the
baseball is playing the major league
players. The ball wins everytime.
Those Cubans nlaX better than thatl
The guardian., 1941-01-04
Col. Gilbert Attends
372nd's Party
CONTINUED from Page II

panies A, B, C, and D from Newark,
Atlantic City, Camden, and Trenton,
N. J.
The Second Battalion will have COM
panies E, F, G, and H, from Cleveland,
Columbus, Cincinnati, and Toledo,
Ohio. And, of course, the Third Bat
talon will have local companies, l, K,
L, and M-sometimes referred to as
the milk companies and battalion.
Big Field Staff
The Colonel was smoking his habi-
tual cigar and was reading a GUAR
DIAN series story about the 372nd
when / first mentioned an interview
He said he liked The GUARDIAN
feature and would like to see more
news about the Regiment. The 372nd
is his pet passion.
Comparing the scarcity of colored
372nd officers in 1918, the Colonel told
me that the new 372nd will be entitled
to many field officers at full strength.
A field officer is one above the rank of
captain.
First the Regiment will have Colo
mel and Lieut-Colonel to begin with.
Then each of the Battalions will have
a Lieut-Colonel and Major Even the
Medical will have a Major. "a most
remarkable advancement since 1918",
smiled the Buckeye Colonel To which
all must agree.
200 Motor Vehicles
Sensing the question in the minds of
GUARDIAN readers l asked Colonel
Gilbert to explain the new 372nd Ser
vice Company and its use.
The Service Company will be in
Quoted at Baltimore and it appears on
the SOS. pattern-Service of Sup
plies, an important army item. This
staple unit does away with the need of
continually drawing labor details from
other units and at full strength would
require around 200 motor vehicles of
various makes and sizes. This would
require many skilled mechanics, chauf-
feurs, etc.
The Colonel paused long enough to
show us the Ohio Second Battalion
Military Shield which is the same as
our own in shape, it's blue background
and red horizontal bar. However an
"Oak Tree eradicated" replaces the
local Red Hand and a short Roman
Sword symbolizes the Spanish war
history represented by our Castle.
Well go into this later on.
Three From Boston
The remarkable increase in Colored
officer personnel brings ready smile
to the Colonel's experienced ewes.
Why" he told US in his deep iovial
voice, ut is not generally known but
the U. S. is now sending more Colored
officers to its Selective Service Schools
than ever before in the history of the
country"
The Colonel insisted we emphasize
"Selective Service" and said that at
least three officers from the Massa-
chusetts Battalion would be called. He
seemed to believe there will be manv
more.
AS matter of fact, the Colonel and
his charming wife were greatly i'm
pressed by the smart, alert officers and
men OF the Third Battalion. They saw
how highly the unit was rated by our
state and city officials. 1t was one of
the best breaks that could happeen
that the Colonel was present at the
372nd Party. He left here greatly
enthused by what he had seen.
Regardless Of office, the Colonel is
an influential military man and it was
brilliant idea to have invited him to
the Party at this time. The best part
OF all, the Colonel enjoyed every
minute of it.
The guardian., 1941-01-04
Modern Football
No Different
Says Thorpe

NEW YORK-They were all sixty
minute players "in the old days" ac-
cording to Jim Thorpe, great American
Indian athlete.
Modern football, moreover, is not
much different, according to the fa-
nous Indian who was equally great in
baseball, football, and track.
when l was at Carlisle, said
Thorpe last week, "we used spinners,
laterals, huddles, and sielnt signals
We used this new tangled T-forma-
tion and the double wingbacks both"
The guardian., 1941-01-04
Boston Bee Roster
Mostly Northern Boys

The Hub contingent for the Boston
Bees will leave here Thursday, Feb. ~,
for the locals training camp site at
San Antonio, Texas.
Twenty-Five spring games are on tap
with two of them in Monterrey, Mexl-
co, against the St. Louis Browns.
The Boston contingent of players
will include batterymen Barney Bar
nicle of Fitchburg, Tom Early of Rox.
bury, Alva Jarey of North Oxford, Art
johnson of Winchester and catcher
Stan Andrews of Lynn.
Many of the Bees players are New
Englanders.
The guardian., 1941-01-04
MASSACRE DAY BILL
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

In the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred Thrty-Two
An Act relative the annual Observance of the Anniversary Boston
massacre and the Heroic Deaths of Cspus Atucks Maverick
James Caldwell, Samuel Gray and Patrick Carr.
be enacted by the Representatives General
court assembled and by the authority the same foows
NAPIER SIX Of the General Laws is hereby by inserting after
we've inserted by chapter hundred and
OF the current year. the following section:- ~ ~
Secun I'D
T on March NTH Of the anniversary Massacre
American of African
I s James caldwell Samuel Gray and Patrick heroic deaths
Is tne nrst martyrs the independence ~
The guardian., 1941-01-04
FIRST CRAFTSMAN
]. HENRI BURCH,
Grand Lecturer.
RrtRnt DRatlr

Funeral services for William
Edward Smith, 1904 fremont ST., who
departed this life Monday, Dec. %
were held Thursday, Dec. 26, 9 am.
at St Francis De Sales Church. In
terment at st. Pauls Cemetery.
Arlington. Millard F. Reid Memorial
Chapel had charge of the funeral ar
rangements.
The guardian., 1941-01-04
Sugar Bowl Bars
Colored Track Kings

NEW ORLEANs-The 1941 Sugar
Bowl track meet held here this week
had no colored athletes represented.
Among those competing, all white,
were Fred Walcott of Rice, Marsh
Farmer of Texas, and Allen Tolmich
of Detroit, in the hurdles.
Half milers were Charles Beetham
of Ohio, Campbell Kane of Indiana and
Les McMitchell of N. Y. U.
The guardian., 1941-01-04
Armstrong Ready
For Comeback

NEW YORK-Henry Armstrong
will resume training here for a sched-
uled return match with Fritzie Zivic.
the man who took away his crown.
The welterweight contest is slated
for Madison Square Garden on Janu-
ary 18th after which Armstrong may
be matched in Boston.
The guardian., 1941-01-04
NY. Black Yanks
Fear Draft

NEW YORK-The N. Y. Black Yam
KEGS baseball club may lose heavily by
army conscription.
Players affected include outfelders
Clyde Spearman, Marvin Barker
Jimmy Kimbrow; first baseman,
Johnny Washington; second baseman
Dick Seay, and pitcher John Stanley
The guardian., 1941-01-04
YOUNG POLLARD
ENTERS RING

NEW YORK-Young Fritz Pollard,
126 lb. class, is on the Abysinnia Boys
Club Amateur boxing team of Harlem.
Pollard fought here in the recent Dia-
mond Belt championships.
The guardian., 1941-01-04
Cal. Football Player
Barred In Georgia

Acknowledgements Techs eleven
defeated California's Golden Bears
1870 here Saturday on a rain drencheu
gridiron before 5000. !,
Walt Gordon, colored quarterback
for the Californians, did not play.
The guardian., 1941-01-04
DIAMOND BELTS
AT ARENA

The Boston Arena will be the site of
the 1941 Diamond Belt amateur trials
of Jan. 6, 20, and Feb. 8.
The Diamond Belt Finals will be Feb.
10 at the Arena.
The guardian., 1941-01-04
WISE SAYINGS

Courage is the endurance of the soul.
-, Inc less man wants the more he is
like the Gods, who want nothing.
knowledge of things past is a key
to things to come.
The guardian., 1941-01-04

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-18

have fought and died for liberty,
10 lift the dignity of man. From
them all We have received mag
nificent heritage of human
thought.
But other forces make the
fates of these people. Here are
400,000,000 people on the CONT
nent divided into 20 races. They
are crowded cheek by jowl IN an
area less than two-thirds of the
United States. Suppose each of
70 of our states had its own Ian
Guage, It's own racial lnherl-
lance. It's own economic and po-
litical problems.
And suppose through all these
races for centuries have surged
the forces of nationahsm. of inn
perialism. of religious conflict,
memories of deep wrongs, OF
age-old hates, and bitter fears.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-18
We Won War,
But Lost The Peace

We won the war. But we lost
the peace. At least 50 far rs our
high purpose of freedom and
permanent peace was concerned.
Europe degencrated into hell.
the brew from which poisOns
the earth today.
II is the causes Of this failure
in tho last World War that are
important for US TO examine
now.
The causes OF that failure Of
only p years ago lie far deeper
than the NlciouSncSS of the
Treaty of Versailles. or the
failure of the League of Nations.
Tho caHSeS of that failure lie
deep IN the inviSiblc-fo which
dominate and Vibrate through
the races winch comprise the
millions Of people OF Europe.
To most Americans Europe
consists Of magnificent cities.
cathedralS cafes. art. music. lit
craturc great universities and
monuments 10 heroiSm and hu.
man progress. Men among them
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-18
Interventionist Move
Against Napoleon

Some Americans have per
haps forgotten that We had a
vigorous interyentioniSt move
ment In the United STATES urg-
ing us 10 join England i'm COM
bat with Napoleon. That inter
Nentionist movement was led by
Fisher Ames, n journalist of
that day, one-time member Of
Congress, and said 10 have been
prevented only by Illness from
becoming president Of Harvard
University. The leader against
joining In war was one Thomas
Jefferson.
Fisher AmeS thought Jefferson
was reactionary and did not
realize the modern forces. AmCs
insisted that Napoleon would
eliminate the world. including
the United States He was full
of pungent phrases.
! give a collection of them:
II ann sure we are Ia he sub
iugated nv Bonaparte." Let no
man In America deceive them
selves. II Bonaparte prevails Tin
Europe we Will he his VaSSals."
we shall he reduced TO
slavery" "In case Europe ac-
cepts peace and chains we of
the United States are ripe and
rotten for servitude and tribute"
Britain fights our battles"
One single hope OF security is
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-18
Backs RooseveIt's
Freedom Of Seas

Mr., Roosevelt spoke last
Thursday night upon III. free
dom of the seas and the recent
Incidents.
The President is right IN Wig
orous protest at firing upon
American warshlps. lie is right
in protest at sinking American
merchant ships without adequate
protection to the crews, even
though they were all carrying
Contraband.
ANY definition Of freedom of
the seas in wartime is largely
academic. Britain could not ac-
Cept the Presidents definition
and carry on an effective block
AIDE
But the Presidents policy of
edging our warShips into dan
ger zones, of sending American
merchant ships with contraband
raises the most critical of all
questions.
These steps To war are unap-
proved and undeclared nv the
Congress. That il not I'm accord
with the spirit Of representative
government and II should he re-
memhered that these incidents
are the consequence oi violating
the spirit of the Neutrality Act.
There are other ways than gO-
ing into this war 10 secure
reparation for tranSgrcSSion Of
our just rights and respect for
them.
The basis Of argument Of
those who would have US send
our sons into war has greatly
shifted IN the last two months.
The increasing emphasis is upon
ou moral obligation 10 send our
boys 20 war In order 10 cstab-
lsh freedom for an men.
President Roosevelt on Janu-
any s of this year stated that
we seek everywhere in the
world freedom OF speech and
expression freedom of religion,
freedom from fear. freedom
from want He has emphasized
this many times since.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-18

The actual dangers 90 America
are less today than az any time
since this war began.
Thoughtful men agree that
the revolution In weapons makes
the Western Hemisphere M
pregnahie from INVASION hs Hit
Ter a statement of mire some
time ago was challenged. But 81
has been more than confirmed
by Colonel Phillips OF our United
States Army General STAFF who
recently wrote
The bomber has made the
American coast impregnahle 10
Invasion. And this still would be
true II our navy were inferior
10 that Of any in, aiding power.
IL makes II possible for this
country 10 insure not only its
own continental territory
-. bgt .. 10 insure the i'm
pregnabiliiy of all North And
South America"
And Imay add that If Hitler
had all me >hIbyards IN Europe
he could MOI IN five years build
an armada hig enough even 10
start across tbe Atlantic.
Hitler rs on has way 20 be
crushed ny The vicious forces
within his regime Patience for
this is far better than spending
the lives n our BOYS
Cnder any American policy,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-18
u. S. Must Shun
War 10 Force Peace

The stern voice of experience
says that America cannot inn
pose its freedoms and ideals
upon the 26 races of Europe or
the world. We should not again
sacrifice our sons for that
proved will-o-the.wisp.
Maintaining peace i Sepa-
rate problem. While We cannot
impose freedom. America can
and must take part I'm maintain
ing peace In the world We can
contribute more To ii IL we are
not exhausted morally, ecOnOmi-
cally and militarily by sending
our boys into this war. ! hope
10 discuss IL at some future
time.
The first trench in the battle
for the four freedoms is TO
maintain them in America. That
rests upon fidelity not only 10
the letter but to the spirit of
constitutional government. Fail
uro of Congress TO assert its
responsibilities or for the EXccu-
tive 10 take warike steps with
out the approval of the Con-
greSS Is direct destruction of
the safeguards Of freedom. We
are on the way 10 weaken these
freedoms in America-not 10
strengthen them.
Freedom of speech and en-
preston are being stifled nv war
phobia right now i'm the United
States.
incidentally there is a fifth
freedom. That is economic free
doom. Freedom for mon 10
choose their own callingS. 10 ac-
cumulate property and old age.
freedom of private enterprise
that does not injure others. The
other four freedoms will not
survive without this one.
\ large number of the men
administering our preparedness
program do not believe i'm this
freedom. With a long war-and
IL will be long If we put our bows
into it-then their methods with
the inevitable debt, imitation. un-
employment and demoralized
agriculture will make us over
into state socialism, probably
under some other name.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-18

again referred to these questions
and our responsibility to build
a democratic world"
! believe in the aspirations for
freedom and peace in the world,
l have myself urged and prayed
and worked. for them over a
quarter of a century, | pray that
they may yet come to the world.
But today the realistic ques-
tons which confront Us are.
Can America impose these
four freedoms upon Europe and
Asia by sending our sons into
this war?
Can America impose the nine
new points on the world?
Shall we not lose IN America
all these freedoms by the very
necessities that arise if we send
our sons into this war?
Here, my COuntrymen, YOU
should listen to the stern voice
OF American experience.
Before the last World War
we were indignant as we are
now at aggression by dictator
governments. Our sense OF COM
passion and justice was aroused
on behalf of the victims. We
believed the New World could
bring to the Old a now order Of
justice, right and freedom. We
would make the world safe for
democracy We would fight a
war 10 end all war.
| advocated our Joining in
that war. ! occupied highly re-
SponSlble positions in the war
the peace and It's aftcrmathS. /
was part OF these events. / can
speak from facts. from record,
from personal knowledge.
President Wilson % years ago
In his II points and supple
mentarN provisions not only de-
clared every one of all the
hurChill and Roosevelt princi-
pies and freedoms, hut Wilson
included still more freedoms and
projections. He reflected the
whole idealism of America.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-18
Armistice Based
On Wilson Points

Mr.. Wilson's II points and
supplementary provisions had
before the armistice been for
mslly accepted by both the
Allies and the Germans a the
basis of.world peace. One Of the
most painful chapters in Ameri-
can history was the antagOnism
TO these ideas by Allied states
men the moment the war was
won.
But the whole concepts which
the New World brought TO the
Old were at conflict with the
grim forces that faced European
craftsmanship.
The victorious Allies in Eu-
rope were impoverished. They
had suffered dreadful butcherieS
and wrongs. They demanded
revenge, punishment, colonies
and money. Their statesmen,
representing their peoples, were
not free agents TO make peace
upon President Wilson's basis.
A thousand years of history.
fear and hate demanded and
obtained seats at that peace
table. They will sit at the next
peace table of Europe. And
America will be just a. foreign
at that table again.
President Wilson made n val.
liant fight for his new order for
mankind. But it was the COLI
sion of warm idealiSm born in
New World. against the glacial
forces of the Old World. The
treaty would have been worse
but for Wilson
II was not the League of Ma
tons which brought calamity in
the world. 1t was the eternal
mahgn forces of Europe.
Mr.. Churchill himself had.
with his usual bluntneSs. said
three years ago, "Hitlers sue
cess, and, indeed, his survival as
a political force, would not have
been possible but for the
lethargy and folly of the French
and British governments since
the war"
American ideas of freedom
and government are the result
of slow growth in the hearts of
people. 1t takes decades and
centuries. They cannot be inn
posed by words, no matter how
eloquent. They cannot be inn
posed by force. They cannot be
imposed upon nations by treaties
any more than they can be inn
posed by battle. We tried il
once under the most perfect
setting of triumphant victory
over aggression, and with all
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-18
Consuming Fire
Of Hate KindIed

Hitler may gain from Russia
some supplies, but he now faces
all the rest Of Europe exhausted
OF It's pre-War stocks OF food
and material Although he has
won unprecedented military VIC
tories. he has kndled behind
him a consuming fire of hate
II is now evident that he has
failed 10 convert 20 naziSm the
200 600 600 people that he has
invaded. He cannot recruit a
division Of dependable soldiers
among them They hate him. If
he occupies all Russia II viii
add another 10000 600 haters.
OF the 100000 people in
Germany and It's allies. many
are becoming weary of war and
death.
The hate Of Hitler will he
more terrible than the blizzard
was to Napoleon. His kingdom
cannot live. even though he has
no military defeat on the Con
tinent.
We are assured Hitler cannot
cross the English Channel with
his armies. And England is
even more impregnable because
OF this breathing spell for pro-
duCtIon Of planes. tanks and
ShlDS and our increasing aid in
war tools. Her loss Of ships and
supplies az sea has greatly de-
creased largely due 10 her more
effective AID patrol And she
daily becomes stronger in air
attack on GormanN.,